Siv Björklund

Siv Björklund is Full Professor of Swedish Immersion and Multilingualism at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. During her academic career, she has been actively involved in developing mmersion and other bi- and multilingual education programs both in Finland and internationally. Her research encompasses individual, institutional and societal bi- and multilingual issues. Her recent research projects focus on the relation between praxis, ideology and identity in multilingual settings, dominant language constellations, bi- and multilingual pedagogies, writing in a second language, and minority speakers.