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

• 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.
• Jonsmoen, K. M. & Greek, M. (2021). Det går på engelsk og norsk  – internasjonalisering av høyere utdanning i Norge (idunn.no). Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 38(4), 288-297.
• Jonsmoen, K. M. & Greek, M. (2021). Hvordan kan vi sikre god språkutvikling hos sykepleiere med norsk som andrespråk? (sykepleien.no). Sykepleien.
• Jonsmoen, K. M. & Greek, M. (2021). Sykepleierstudenter og sykepleiere med norsk som andrespråk (michaeljournal.no). In: E. Hem & M. Nylenna (Eds.), Helsespråk. Michael; 18: supplement 26. ISBN 978-82-92871-77-5, p. 126-134.
• Solli, K. & Muir, T. (2021). EAP Pedagogies for Doctoral Students in Professional Fields. In: C. MacDiarmid & J. J. MacDonald (Eds.), Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes: Teaching and Learning in International Contexts. ISBN: 978-1-3501-6480-2, p. 59–74.
• Zemliansky, P. (2021). Faculty Development Training in Online Instruction at a Norwegian University: An Experience Report (ieee.org). IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.

News and events

• 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