Nordic Research Network for Educational Linguistics (NordEdLing)

Mission statement: To establish and promote educational linguistics as a research field in the Nordic countries that encourages and facilitates multiperspective and multidisciplinary research concerning language(s) in education.

Steering committee

Chair: Sergej Ivanov

Denmark: Lars Holm (Aarhus University), Helle Pia Laursen (alternate)

Finland: Åsa Palviainen (University of Jyväskylä)

Iceland: Branislav Bédi (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies) and Renata Emilsson Pesková (alternate)

Norway: Ingrid M. Rodrick Beiler (Oslo Metropolitan University)

Sweden: Kathrin Kaufhold (Stockholm University)

PhD students

Berrak Pinar Uluer Yilmaz (Stockholm University)

Kristoffer Holmquist (Lund University)

External representatives

Francis M. Hult  (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

Maria Dolores Garcia Pastor (University of Valencia, Spain)

Enrique Sologuren Insua (Universidad de los Andes, Chile) 

Get involved

Sign up to the NordEdLing mailing list by sending an e-mail to: nordedling@lnu.se 

Events

Seminar series autumn 2025 

8 October, 15.00–16.30 (CET), Zoom
Ingrid Rodrick Beiler (Oslo Metropolitan University)
Anglonormativity in language education for immigrants to Norway

26 November, 15.00–16.30 (CET), Zoom
Shannon Sauro (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Fan practices for language learning in the digital wilds: A systematic review

Conference

Maria Dolores Garcia Pastor is organising an international conference on corpus-based approaches to learner language at the end of May 2026 in Valencia. You will find more information here

See activities within The Educational Linguistics research group.

Resources

Handbooks in Applied Linguistics: The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics

Springer book series: Educational Linguistics

Journal: Educational Linguistics 

Special issue: HumaNetten