Siv Björklund, Mikaela Björklund bio
Mikaela Björklund is lecturer in foreign language education at the Faculty of
Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. Her research and developmental work interests focus on the premises for teaching and learning English as
a foreign language in Swedish-medium primary schools in Finland, Content and
Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) at different levels in education, linguistic,
and cultural integration patterns in comprehensive education, including teacher
beliefs, pupils’ patterns of multilingual language use, and linguistic schoolscapes.
The most recent research interest is teacher education as an arena for developing
language awareness and multilingual language use.
Siv Björklund is professor of Swedish immersion at the Faculty of Education and
Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. Her research encompasses Swedish language immersion, Swedish as a second language, bilingual and multilingual learnng, content and language integrated learning, and minority studies. Recent research
projects focus on the relation between multilingualism and identity in immersion
programs, pedagogical practices for language-diverse classes, and development of
participatory writing among students with Swedish as a first or second language in
different settings. Björklund is also one of the founders of the Journal of Immersion
and Content-Based Language Education (JICB, John Benjamins Publishing
Company)