About
I teach and research children's language development and the language environment in kindergartens, as well as language guidance at health centres, and am one of the leaders of the research group Language and Learning Environment in Early Years - ECEC to Primary School. I am particularly interested in children's multilingual development at home and in kindergarten, and have just completed a research project on Polish-Norwegian children in PolkaNorski. We've collected resources from this project on the website Flerspråklig barndom - Multilingual Childhood. I'm now working on the project Snakk: om barn på helsestasjonen (Talk: about language at the health centre), where we're investigating language guidance at health centres, especially for multilingual families, and the collaboration between kindergartens and health centres. I am also interested in developing students' skills in academic writing and reading of academic texts, co-writing, peer response and the use of colloquium groups, as well as the development of digital teaching methods.
Field of study
Cognitive linguistics Child language Language change Language Acquisition Norwegian Phonology Language change Old Norse Babble
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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What characterizes the kindergarten's translanguaging practices in working with multilingual children aged 3–5?
PhD project aimed at understanding how kindergartens create opportunities for children to use of their mother tongue.
Completed research projects
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PolkaNorski Implemented
The development of language skills and world knowledge in Polish-Norwegian multilingual children.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Komorowska, Ewa; Hansen, Pernille Bonnevie; Haman, Ewa;
Kilanowska, Jolanta
;
Garmann, Nina Gram
(2026).
Perspectives on multilingualism in Norway and Poland: attitudes, beliefs, and influencing factors.
International Journal of Multilingualism.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2026.2700674
Mustonen, R.; Torppa, R.; Kraljević, J. Kuvač; Matić, A.; Schults, A.; Krajewski, G.; Karp, P.; Muszyńska, K.; Simonsen, Hanne Gram;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Tulviste, T.; Stolt, S.
(2026).
Association Between Parental Attitudes Towards Screen Time and Children's Language Skills in Four European Countries.
Acta Paediatrica.
https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.70588
Dynak, Agnieszka; Bajkowska, Katarzyna;
Kilanowska, Jolanta
; Kolak, Joanna; Krysztofiak, Magdalena; Łuniewska, Magdalena; Muszyńska, Karolina;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Haman, Ewa
(2026).
Better start to bilingual development: Bridging parental beliefs and science through early intervention for Polish families living in Norway | PLOS One.
PLOS ONE.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346160
Lozano, Itziar; Duszyk-Bogorodzka, Anna;
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie
; Laudańska, Zuzanna; Szmytke, Magdalena; Dynak, Agnieszka; Falkiewicz, Natalia; Fryzowska, Ewelina; Ogonowska, Wiktoria; Krupa-Gaweł, Karolina; Rummelhoff, Cecilie;
Laumann, Lisa
; Tomalski, Przemysław;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Haman, Ewa
(2026).
The role of attention to the mouth of talking faces for vocabulary skills during toddlerhood: Does language familiarity still matter?.
Child Development.
https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag010
Kristoffersen, Kristian Emil;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Simonsen, Hanne Gram
(2026).
Norwegian Speech Development.
McLeod, Sharynne (Ed.).
The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World. p. 945-964.
Oxford University Press.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5559576
Simonsen, Hanne Gram;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Kristoffersen, Kristian Emil
(2026).
Norwegian CDIs in research.
Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istrazivanja / Croatian Review of Rehabilitation Research.
Vol. 62.
https://doi.org/10.31299/hrri.62.si.13
Łuniewska, Magdalena; Krysztofiak, Magdalena; Białek, Weronika; Burdach, Martyna; Komorowska, Ewa; Krajewski, Grzegorz; Pacewicz, Judyta; Radzikowska, Julia;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Haman, Ewa
(2025).
Polish LITMUS Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task: Reliability, validity, and norms for monolingual 3- to 5-year olds.
First language.
Vol. 45.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251336497
Muszynska, Karolina; Krajewski, Grzegorz; Dynak, Agnieszka;
Garmann, Nina Gram
;
Romøren, Anna Sara H.
; Luniewska, Magdalena; Alcock, Katie; Katsos, Napoleon; Kolak, Joanna; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Hansen, Pernille Bonnevie; Krysztofiak, Magdalena; Sobota, Krzysztof; Haman, Ewa
(2025).
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers.
Journal of Child Language.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000655
Hansen, Pernille Bonnevie; Krysztofiak, Magdalena; Łuniewska, Magdalena; Burdach, Martyna; Hernæs, Katarina;
Kilanowska, Jolanta
; Krajewski, Grzegorz; Krupa-Gawel, Karolina; Pacewicz, Judyta;
Sandbakken, Mari
; Skorpen, Ayla Fjeld;
Romøren, Anna Sara H.
; Haman, Ewa;
Garmann, Nina Gram
(2025).
Are parental perceptions of child language skills and language environment reflected in direct bilingual assessment? A study of Polish-Norwegian preschool children.
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2025.2576067
Lozano, Itziar; Duszyk-Bogorodzka, Anna;
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie
; falkiewicz, Natalia; Ogonowska, Wiktoria; Dynak, Agnieszka; Köder, Franziska Maria; Tomalski, Przemysław; Fryzowska, Ewelina; Krajewski, Grzegorz; Rummelhoff, Cecilie; Varona, Elena Canamaque; Krupa-Gawel, Karolina;
Laumann, Lisa
;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Haman, Ewa
(2025).
The Development of Semantic Integration in Bilingual Toddlers Measured by N400.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101599
