About
Dragana Surkalovic is an associate professor of English at the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education at OsloMet - Metropolitan University. Her professional interests include English linguistics and subject didactics, multilingualism, research literacy, and the use of AI for communication and language learning.
Field of study
Analysis of the curriculum Multilingualism Foreign Language Methodology English language Teaching English as a Foreign Language Key Skills in Englsih Language policy Early Years Education Utdanning Multilingualism in education
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Beyond access: improving quality of early years reading instructions in Ethiopia
The objective of the project is to improve the quality of education for primary grades in Ethiopian schools.
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English as a Lingua Franca For Inclusive Multilingual Classrooms (ENRICH)
ENRICH aims at developing a high-quality Continuous Professional Development infrastructure.
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Strengthening teacher education in lesser taught languages (STELT)
The main aim of the project is to strengthen foreign language teacher education for French, German and Spanish in Norway.
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Teacher Research Literacy (TREL): Comparative Trajectories in the Nordic-Baltic Region
TREL aims to identify good practices in the Nordic-Baltic educational context.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Flognfeldt, Mona Evelyn
;
Tsagari, Dina
;
Surkalovic, Dragana
;
Tishakov, Therese Marie
(2020).
The Practice of Assessing Norwegian and English Language Proficiency in Multilingual Elementary School Classrooms in Norway.
Language Assessment Quarterly.
Vol. 17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2020.1827409
Angelovska, Tanja; Krulatz, Anna;
Surkalovic, Dragana
(2020).
Predicting efl teacher candidates’ preparedness to work with multilingual learners: Snapshots from three european universities.
The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL.
Vol. 9.
https://search.proquest.com/docview/2451418203/ful
Surkalovic, Dragana
(2014).
Forbereder grunnskolelærerutdanningen engelsklærere for undervisning i engelsk som tredjespråk i Norge?.
Acta Didactica Norge.
Vol. 8.
https://doi.org/10.5617/adno.1129
Surkalovic, Dragana
(2013).
Modularity, Phase-Phase Faithfulness and prosodification of function words in English.
Nordlyd.
Vol. 40.
https://doi.org/10.7557/12.2507
Surkalovic, Dragana (2011). Modularity, Linearization and Phase-Phase Faithfulness in Kayardild. Iberia: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 3.
Surkalovic, Dragana
(2011).
Lexical and functional decomposition in syntax: A view from phonology.
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL).
Vol. 47.
https://doi.org/10.2478/psicl-2011-0023