Unit for Academic Language and Practice

• Our research
• Courses and workshops

About us

The Unit for Academic Language and Practice seeks to support academic literacies development among teaching and research staff in higher education institutions.

Our teaching and research draw from the areas of English for Academic Purposes, Norwegian as a Second Language, Norwegian in academic and professional contexts, rhetoric and writing studies, and teaching in higher education in intercultural and multilingual contexts.   

A selection of publications

• Muir, T. & Solli, K. (2022). "And Thou Shall Find your Path": The Manifesto in Doctoral Writing Development. Journal of Academic Writing, 12(1), 68–85.
• Garrels, V. & Zemliansky, P. (2022). Improving Student Engagement in Online Courses through Interactive and User-Centered Course Design: Practical Strategies (idunn.no). Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 17(2), 112–122.
• Muir, T. (2022). And be but cryonically extant: Don DeLillo and Sir Thomas Browne (tandfonline.com). Textual Practice.
• Solli, K. & Nygaard, L. P. (2022) The doctorate in pieces: A scoping review of research on the PhD thesis by publication (tandfonline.com). Higher Education Research & Development.
• Johansen, G. & Solli, K. (2022) The hidden curriculum of temporal organization: An empirical comparison of classroom and workshop practices (tandfonline.com). Journal of Curriculum Studies.

News and events

• Conference: Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, 2023: EAP and Time (15.–16 juni, 2023).
• Conference: Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, 2022: Beginnings (9–10 June, 2022).
• Norge trenger sykepleiere, og sykepleiere trenger norskferdigheter (khrono.no), Kari Mari Jonsmoen & Marit Greek, Khrono (20 March 2022).
• Norske og utanlandske forskarar sit på kvar si tue (khrono.no), Njord V. Svendsen, Khrono (2 January 2022).

Academic writing courses in English for academic staff

 

Course in Norwegian for international staff