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Scandinavian Faculty
Johanna Eriksson, Director (MA English and Swedish Language, University of Stockholm, Main Secondary and Adult Education, School of Education, Stockholm, Sweden) Email: johannae@umich.edu As the director of the Scandinavian Program for the last five years, Johanna Eriksson is responsible for the Minor in Scandinavian studies, which includes three years of Swedish language studies as well as area courses in English. Johanna is also arranging the annual Signe Karlström Event, which has included a broad range of concerts, staged readings, exhibits and public talks. Johanna encourages her students to participate in the university’s study abroad programs to Uppsala University in Sweden and Turku University in Finland, as well as eight week summer internships in Scandinavia, where the students can also gain university credit, and the number of students taking part of these programs have increased significantly over the last years. Johanna takes the fourth semester language class to Sweden on a Study trip to Sweden over Spring Break, which often is the students’ first visit to the country. In order to expand the Swedish community for her students, her classes collaborate with Swedish senior high schools in various ways. This year, our partner school is Campeon Gymnasium in Helsingborg, Sweden. Johanna is interested in language pedagogy and language acquisition. Maria Gull (MA, Language Education, Gothenburg University, Sweden) Email: mgull@umich.edu Since receiving her MA in 1989, Maria has concentrated primarily on Second Language Education in Sweden, working with immigrants and guest students on all aspects of language, from literacy to literature courses. During her work with newly arrived immigrants from all over the world, Maria became interested in developing teaching methods and materials supporting a communicative approach to language acquisition that enables students to speak their target language in the minimum amount of time and that also gives them the tools necessary to continue to learn outside the classroom. Maria also taught an introductionary course in Swedish at the University of Gothenburg in 1993 and has been invited by other language institutes to give seminars on second language acquisition for other second language teachers thoughout Sweden. She has published textbooks and teacher guide books in Swedish as a Second Language for adults. She is currently writing additional parts. The new books will be published in the spring of 2003. |
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