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  • Emil Holms Kanal 6

    2300 København S

Personal profile

Short presentation

Anne Holmen is a professor emeritus at Department of ENGEROM. 2011-2023 she was the director of the Centre of Internationalization and Parallel Language Use. The centre carries out research and consultancy tasks connected to academic English, Danish and other languages at UCPH. 

Primary fields of research

  • Language teaching and learning
  • Languages-in-education
  • Sociolinguistics, in particular multilingualism and varieties of Danish
  • Language policy
  • Intercultural education

Current research

  • Danish as a second language in academia
  • Translanguaging in university teaching and learning
  • Language diversity among students in tertiary education

Impact

At the Faculty of Humanities Anne Holmen's research is used as an example of the impact the humanities researchers have on society.
Read the case: Multilingualism as a challenge and resource.

Teaching

  • Second language teaching and learning
  • Multilingualism in schools and education
  • Language, identity and culture
  • Language policy, language teaching and learning
  • Sociolinguistics and interaction

Education/Academic qualification

ph.d., University of Copenhagen

Award Date: 26 May 1989

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Parallel language use
  • bilingualism
  • superdiversity
  • multilingualism
  • plurilingualism
  • language learning and teaching
  • language policies
  • educational policies
  • Didactics/Didaktik
  • multicultural education
  • language assessment

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