Åsa WedinDr. Åsa Wedin holds a PhD in Bilingualism and is a Professor in Educational Work at Dalarna University, Sweden. With a background as a primary school teacher, Wedin's main research interests are in multilingualism and literacy in education. She has crried out research in Tanzania, on literacy practices in primary school, and in Sweden on literacy and interactional patterns in classrooms and on conditions for multilingual students' learning. Her research is ethnographically inspired, particularly using linguistic ethnography and theoretical perspectives where languaging is studied as social and cultural practices and where opportunities for learning are related to questions of power. Read More Read Less