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Åsa Wengelin

Assistant Head of Department

Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language
technology
Telephone
+46 31-786 49 09
+46 766-18 49 09
Mail
asa.wengelin@svenska.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language
technology
Telephone
+46 31-786 49 09
+46 766-18 49 09
Mail
asa.wengelin@svenska.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
F313
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Åsa Wengelin

My main research interests are: the written language production process, the relation between spoken and written language, literacy acquisition, language disorders and linguistic accessability (e.g. plain language and easy readers).

Before my appointment at the University of Gothenburg I held positions as research scholar at Florida Atlantic University and Lund University, senior lecturer in special education at Karlstad University and senior lecturer – and later guest professor – in disability studies at Halmstad University College.

Major research grants (< €100 000):

The flow of communication in TTY conversations between Deaf, €150 000, 2004–2007 (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare)

Reading during Writing, €270 000, 2005–2009 (Swedish Research Council)

Gaze behaviour during Writing, €360 000, 2009–2013 (Swedish Research Council)

Speech Recognition to help children with reading and writing difficulties produce better texts, 2016–2021 €500 000 + €100 000 (Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg foundation)

Developmental and Acquired Writing difficulties –Synthesizing and Deepening 20 Years of Research, €135 000 (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences)