- University of Gothenburg
- Faculty of Education
- Department of Education
- Staff - A-Z
- Apelgren, Britt Marie
Britt Marie Apelgren - a brief presentation
Title: FD/PhD
Unit: Language and Literature
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2249
E-mail: BrittMarie.Apelgren@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
My primary research field concerns teachers’ and students’ perceptions and experiences of language teaching. My theoretical framework is constructivist, primarily influenced by personal construct psychology. Other research areas involve students’ language skills in English and charting and delineating teachers’ alternative forms of assessment.
Teaching interests:
I teach and supervise primarily in the field of subject-matter didactics, with a focus on learning in English in both basic and advanced undergraduate courses. I am also active as a teacher in the general components of teacher education programmes and in tertiary education teaching.
Keywords:
teacher conceptions, constructivist research, language learning, assessment of language skills
Selected publications:
Apelgren, B.M. (2001). Foreign LangaugeTeachers’ Voices. Personal Theories and Experiences of Change in Teaching English as a Foreign Langauge in Sweden. (Göteborg studies in Educational Science 155). Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothenburgensis.
Apelgren, B.M. (2005). Research on or with teachers? Methodological issues in research within the field of foreign language didactics. I Forskning om undervisning i främmande språk (red. Larsson Ringqvist, E. & Valfridsson, I.). Växjö: Växjö University Press.
Apelgren, B.M. (2003). Researching Lived Experiences: A study on Swedish foreign language teachers’ voices on teaching and change. I Psychological Constructivism and the Social World (red. Chiari, G. & Nuzzo, M.L.). Milano: FrancoAngeli.
Oscarson, M. & Apelgren, B.M. (2005). Nationella utvärderingen av grundskolan 2003. Engelska år 9. Ämnesrapport till rapport 251. Stockholm: Skolverket.
Apelgren, B.M. (2005). Review: Garrett, Peter, Coupland, Nicholas &Williams, Angie, Investigating Language Attitudes: Social meanings of dialect, ethnicity and performance. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003. I Multilingua Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Editor: Richard J. Watts. Bern: Mouton de Gruyter.
Apelgren, B.M. (2004) Review: Ellis, Rod, Task-based Language Learning and Teaching. Oxford University Press, 2003. I Moderna språk Volume 98:1, 2004.