Pauliina Sopanen
Biography
I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Languages and Communication in the project MultiELL – Redesigning Early Foreign Language Learning through Multiliteracies (Research Council of Finland 2024–2028). I defended my doctoral thesis in Swedish at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ in the fall of 2022. In 2023–2024, I was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki in the project De SmÃ¥.
My research interests focus on early language learning, language (education) policies, early childhood education, Swedish, and issues related to language awareness, diversity and multilingualism. In the ongoing MultiELL project, I focus particularly on visual research methods, research with young children, and different areas of multiliteracy.