Thanh Vi Son
About Thanh Vi Son
Senior Lecturer in English language education/didactics with the focus on linguistics.
Background
I have a bachelor's degree in English and teacher education in English from Cantho University, Vietnam. I worked as an English teacher before having a master's degree in language and culture from Linköping University, Sweden, a master's degree in higher education pedagogical research and leadership from Kassel University, Germany, and a PhD in linguistics from Lund University, Sweden. I have taught and supervised in English linguistics at the university level and in the English teaching education program in Sweden to varying degrees.
Teaching
Currently, I teach courses in the English teaching education program, English linguistics and didactics, steering documents, assessment and grading for teacher candidates, and the International Master’s Programme in Educational Research. I also visit and assess teacher candidates during their English teaching placements in primary and secondary schools.
Research
As a linguist and language educator specializing in EFL, I am interested in the teaching, learning, testing, and assessment of English across different contexts, with a focus on cross-linguistic and cultural perspectives, teacher and learner viewpoints, multilingualism, ICT in language education, global Englishes, TESOL, grammatical aspects of second language acquisition (SLA), focus-on-form and language didactics in the classroom.
Completed research projects
The project investigated the interaction between teaching and learning of English in young language learners in Sweden and Vietnam. It thus brought together two perspectives – teaching and learning – that are seldom compared between cultural contexts. The main focus of the study was to examine procedural and declarative knowledge of English grammar, more specifically third person singular –s.