Yulia Rodina
Job description
Professor of Linguistics and Language Acquisition with teaching responsibilities for bachelor and master's courses in English, Language Acquisition, and Multilingualism
Leader of the research group AcqVA-Nor
Director of the web-based service for bilingualism Flere språk til flere
Deputy Chair of The Research Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education (HSL)
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Research interests
I investigate how children and adults acquire and use multiple languages. My research has focused on first, second and third language acquisition as well as on child bilingualism and language attrition, mostly using a psycholinguistic experimental approach.
Important keywords are
- language acquisition (first, second, third, bilingual),
- language variation and change
- individual background factors
- cross-linguistic influence
- morphosyntax (grammatical gender, declension, definiteness), word order
- English, Norwegian, Russian, Bosnian, and Serbian
Research projects
- Multilingual Acquisition and Processing: Heritage Russian in Spain (MAP), Anastasiia Ogneva - Arctic MSCA fellow
- MultiLingual Minds and Factors Affecting MultiLingual Outcomes (Theme1, AcqVA Aurora Center)
- Across-domain Investigations in Multilingualism: Modeling L3 Acquisition in Diverse Settings (ADIM) (completed)
- Cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism across domains: phonology and syntax (CLIMAD) (completed)
- Micro-variation in Multilingual acquisition & attrition Situations (MiMS) (completed)
- MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender (completed)
- Knowledge of grammatical gender in L2 speakers of Norwegian using eyetracking and other controlled experiments (completed)
Teaching
Responsible for the following courses offered in English
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Second Language Acquisition (ENG-1005, ENG-2050, ENG-3050, ENG-3051)
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First Language Acquisition (ENG-3040)
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Multilingualism (ENG-3060)
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Varieties of English (ENG-3070)
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Bachelor Thesis Seminar (ENG-2980)
Supervised the following MA theses
- Ole-Henrik Johannessen. 2024. Gaming and Vocabulary in English Second Language Acquisition. UiT
- Aliia Safiulina. 2024. Gender agreement with nouns denoting professions in Russian. UiT (with Svetlana Sokolova)
- Sorayya Jowkar. 2024. The Bottleneck Hypothesis: L1 Persian L2 English. UiT
- Yuanqi Wang. 2021. The acquisition of English questions by a Mandarin-English bilingual child. UiT
- Parisa Kalantari Dehaghi. 2023. The impact of L1 translation on vocabulary retention and immediate recall in Persian learners of English. UiT
- Esther Varhaug. 2021. Bilingual vocabulary acquisition. A corpus-based case study. UiT
- Martin Lamvik. 2020. The effect media habits have on Norwegian L1 lower secondary school youths’ English proficiency. UiT (with Christopher Loe Olsen)
- Stine Kolbeisen. 2020. Teaching English Reading Strategies in the Second Language Classroom. An intervention study of teacher instructed use of reading strategies with L1 Norwegian L2 English Learners. UiT (with Christopher Loe Olsen)
- Minoo Gholami. 2020. Study of the bottleneck hypothesis in L2 acquisition: The acquisition of functional morphology and syntax by Persian L2 learners of English. UiT
- Kristine Karlsen Lajord. 2019. Explicit grammar instruction in the L2 classroom. Issues in teaching and learning English word order. UiT
- Maren Oline Nygaard. 2019. The effects of grammar instruction when learning L2 English subject-verb agreement. An investigation of L1 Norwegian learners' acquisition of L2 English. UiT (with Christopher Loe Olsen)
- Camilla Baumann Johansen. 2019. Investigating the Beliefs on English Grammar Instruction among Norwegian Students and Teachers in High School. UiT
- Anne-Kari Petersen. 2017. Narrative ferdigheter hos flerspråklige og enspråklige skolebarn [Narrative abilities of multilingual and monolingual school children]. University of Oslo (with Marianne Klem)
- Galyna Ignatiuk. 2017. The Bottleneck Hypothesis: A self-paced reading study. UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
- Yulia Belova. 2017. Language development and family language policy in multilingual families. Oslo and Akershus University College (with Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen)
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CV
- PhD Linguistics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- MA English Linguistics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- BA English Language and Philology, Ivanovo State University, Russia