Pia Sundqvist
@piasundqvist.bsky.social
Professor of English Education, University of Oslo, Norway. I am trying out Bluesky to see if I find it relevant mainly for my job as a researcher (and maybe also for one of my main interests - sports).
New study on extramural English published, Schurz & Sundqvist (2025) academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
Considering extramural English in class: Exploring teachers’ activity ideas in secondary school classrooms in four countries
Abstract. Extramural English (EE), referring to English-mediated leisure activities, has become a core part of English learning in many contexts. This prom
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November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New study on extramural English published, Schurz & Sundqvist (2025) academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
New study out!
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Extramural English in Türkiye: Scale Development, Learner Engagement and L2 English Proficiency - Mehmet Sercan Uztosun, Pia Sundqvist, 2025
Extramural English (EE) has been linked to foreign/second language (L2) English proficiency, but most research studies rely on broad questionnaires, limiting th...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New study out!
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New study published today in ELT Journal! We interviewed three 6-year-olds in their homes - soooo interesting! academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...
Exploring six-year-olds’ L2 English digital learning in the home
Abstract. Young L2 English learners constitute an underresearched group in the fields of L2 acquisition and ELT. However, emerging research has shown that
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November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New study published today in ELT Journal! We interviewed three 6-year-olds in their homes - soooo interesting! academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...
New article I System. Open access. ”The effects of extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach”. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
New article I System. Open access. ”The effects of extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach”. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
My position paper published in ARAL last year now lives on pages 79-91. Forever. Its home😊.
Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core -
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Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core -
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Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters - Volume 44
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September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My position paper published in ARAL last year now lives on pages 79-91. Forever. Its home😊.
Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core -
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core -
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
STAGE Norway - project news! www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
YouTube cannot replace the English teacher
- Department of Teacher Education and School Research
Students love using games, videos and music, and they learn English incidentally that way, but a recent study highlights why we still need English teachers to make sure students learn everything they ...
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August 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
STAGE Norway - project news! www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
Happy and honored.
We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Pia Sundqvist as a new Associate Editor at Language Learning & Technology! Dr. Pia Sundqvist is a leading scholar in Gaming and Language Learning, and we’re excited to have her expertise on the LLT editorial team 🎉
August 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Happy and honored.
My first ever Study Protocol article, co-authored w/ Peters, Skar & Gyllstad, about the STAGE project, which has the following main research question: "What is the relationship between starting age, Extramural English and English language proficiency?" journals.bilpubgroup.com/index.php/fl...
Study Protocol: STarting AGe and Extramural English: Learning English in and Outside of School in Norway and Flanders (STAGE)
| Forum for Linguistic Studies
Study Protocol: STarting AGe and Extramural English: Learning English in and Outside of School in Norway and Flanders (STAGE)
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August 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My first ever Study Protocol article, co-authored w/ Peters, Skar & Gyllstad, about the STAGE project, which has the following main research question: "What is the relationship between starting age, Extramural English and English language proficiency?" journals.bilpubgroup.com/index.php/fl...
Welcome to the STAGE Research Webinar, 18 September, 12:00-13:30 CET (Zoom)! Pls register by 17 September.
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
STAGE Research Webinar 2025
- Department of Teacher Education and School Research
Welcome to a seminar where researchers will present new research findings about learning English in and outside of school and the role of an early start of formal instruction of English in school.
www.uv.uio.no
August 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Welcome to the STAGE Research Webinar, 18 September, 12:00-13:30 CET (Zoom)! Pls register by 17 September.
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
Norwegian 1st-graders (6 yrs) know on average around 850 English words (!) at the onset of formal education thanks to their extramural English habits. @HenrikGyllstad led our study #STAGE_Norway Advance access, OA www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching ( IRAL ) is devoted to problems of general and applied linguistics in their various forms. IRAL 's long-term interest lies in areas of ...
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August 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Norwegian 1st-graders (6 yrs) know on average around 850 English words (!) at the onset of formal education thanks to their extramural English habits. @HenrikGyllstad led our study #STAGE_Norway Advance access, OA www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
Extramural English matters! Uztosun & Sundqvist (2025) w/ data from learners in Türkiye. Thanks to all participants!
Extramural English activities and their relationship with L2 English proficiency at a Turkish university context dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/liter... @DergiPark #DergiPark
Extramural English activities and their relationship with L2 English proficiency at a Turkish university context dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/liter... @DergiPark #DergiPark
Extramural English activities and their relationship with L2 English proficiency at a Turkish university context
The Literacy Trek | Volume: 11 Issue: 1
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July 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Extramural English matters! Uztosun & Sundqvist (2025) w/ data from learners in Türkiye. Thanks to all participants!
Extramural English activities and their relationship with L2 English proficiency at a Turkish university context dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/liter... @DergiPark #DergiPark
Extramural English activities and their relationship with L2 English proficiency at a Turkish university context dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/liter... @DergiPark #DergiPark
I don't think I have shared our (with @sercanuztosun.bsky.social) Extramural English Scale here on Bluesky, so I am sharing it now! Extramural English in Scandinavia and Asia: Scale Development, Learner Engagement, and Perceived Speaking Ability onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Extramural English in Scandinavia and Asia: Scale Development, Learner Engagement, and Perceived Speaking Ability
This article comprises two international studies. Study 1 aimed to develop a scale to measure the frequency of learners' voluntary, informal, out-of-school engagement with English, so-called Extramur....
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May 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I don't think I have shared our (with @sercanuztosun.bsky.social) Extramural English Scale here on Bluesky, so I am sharing it now! Extramural English in Scandinavia and Asia: Scale Development, Learner Engagement, and Perceived Speaking Ability onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Happy to share this "Thinking Allowed"-piece by Chun Lai and myself. We suggest 10 research tasks - please read and explore!
Research agenda: Synergizing in-class and out-of-class language learning with technology | Language Teaching | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Research agenda: Synergizing in-class and out-of-class language learning with technology | Language Teaching | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Research agenda: Synergizing in-class and out-of-class language learning with technology | Language Teaching | Cambridge Core
Research agenda: Synergizing in-class and out-of-class language learning with technology
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May 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happy to share this "Thinking Allowed"-piece by Chun Lai and myself. We suggest 10 research tasks - please read and explore!
Research agenda: Synergizing in-class and out-of-class language learning with technology | Language Teaching | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Research agenda: Synergizing in-class and out-of-class language learning with technology | Language Teaching | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Review of our book "Testing Talk"! Thanks to Jespersen, Zhang & Dimova, Uni of Copenhagen, for a thorough reading and overall very positive response!
Testing Talk: Ways to Assess Second Language Oral Proficiency url:https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/applin/amaf023/8124536
Testing Talk: Ways to Assess Second Language Oral Proficiency url:https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/applin/amaf023/8124536
Testing Talk: Ways to Assess Second Language Oral Proficiency
L2 oral proficiency has traditionally been assessed through monologic performance and/or an interview with a trained interlocutor or examiner. Although the
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May 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Review of our book "Testing Talk"! Thanks to Jespersen, Zhang & Dimova, Uni of Copenhagen, for a thorough reading and overall very positive response!
Testing Talk: Ways to Assess Second Language Oral Proficiency url:https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/applin/amaf023/8124536
Testing Talk: Ways to Assess Second Language Oral Proficiency url:https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/applin/amaf023/8124536
Hold av datoen: 17. sept! STAGE/UiO ønsker engelsklærere velkommen til et seminar om elevers bruk av engelsk gjennom spill, TV, internett og sosiale medier, og hva det har å si for engelskferdighetene deres.Registrering senest 3. sept-førstemann til mølla! www.uv.uio.no/ils/forsknin...
STAGE-prosjektet: Engelsklærer-dagen 2025
- Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning
Hva skjer med engelskopplæringen når barn møter engelsk gjennom YouTube og spill før de har begynt på skolen? Hva bruker elevene på 1. trinn, 6. trinn og 10. trinn engelsk til utenfor klasserommet, og...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hold av datoen: 17. sept! STAGE/UiO ønsker engelsklærere velkommen til et seminar om elevers bruk av engelsk gjennom spill, TV, internett og sosiale medier, og hva det har å si for engelskferdighetene deres.Registrering senest 3. sept-førstemann til mølla! www.uv.uio.no/ils/forsknin...
SAVE THE DATE! Welcome to our STAGE Research Webinar on 18 Sept 2025. We present the main findings from our 4-year project on extramural English and starting age in Norway and Flanders - and we will start a new research network! Pls sign up to get a link:)
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
STAGE Research Webinar 2025
- Department of Teacher Education and School Research
Welcome to a seminar where researchers will present new research findings about learning English in and outside of school and the role of an early start of formal instruction of English in school.
www.uv.uio.no
May 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
SAVE THE DATE! Welcome to our STAGE Research Webinar on 18 Sept 2025. We present the main findings from our 4-year project on extramural English and starting age in Norway and Flanders - and we will start a new research network! Pls sign up to get a link:)
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
www.uv.uio.no/ils/english/...
What are teachers’ beliefs and reported practices about (a) multilingualism in general, (b) the use of additional background languages in learning an additional language (in
general) and (c) English in particular? Context: Secondary school, Sweden. Happy reading!🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
general) and (c) English in particular? Context: Secondary school, Sweden. Happy reading!🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Teachers’ reported beliefs and practices about multilingualism: A questionnaire study among secondary-school L2 English teachers in Sweden
An increasingly globalised world has led to great language diversity in institutional settings. Sweden is no exception; 3 of 10 students in compulsory school have a migrant background. Increased di...
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March 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What are teachers’ beliefs and reported practices about (a) multilingualism in general, (b) the use of additional background languages in learning an additional language (in
general) and (c) English in particular? Context: Secondary school, Sweden. Happy reading!🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
general) and (c) English in particular? Context: Secondary school, Sweden. Happy reading!🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interested in learner variables in DGBLLT? I am! And I have now published on the topic. link.springer.com/referencewor...
Learner Variables in DGBLLT
Learner variables, also known as individual difference (ID) variables, are individual characteristics of learners of a foreign/second language (L2) that influence L2 learning processes and outcomes. L...
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March 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Interested in learner variables in DGBLLT? I am! And I have now published on the topic. link.springer.com/referencewor...
AAAL2025 has started! We had a presentation from the ComplEExity Project this morning and Terry nailed it! Such a blessing to team up with these fabulous corpus linguists! @tovelarsson.bsky.social Henrik Kastari, Ying Wang. #extramuralenglish meets #corpuslinguistics
March 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
AAAL2025 has started! We had a presentation from the ComplEExity Project this morning and Terry nailed it! Such a blessing to team up with these fabulous corpus linguists! @tovelarsson.bsky.social Henrik Kastari, Ying Wang. #extramuralenglish meets #corpuslinguistics
Reposted by Pia Sundqvist
January 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Happy about my case study of ”Anders”, a language learner in his 80s with a growth learning mindset!!! Chapter 6 in this fantastic new book! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
Mindsets in Language Education
This book is devoted to the interdisciplinary investigation of language learner and teacher motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing, based on the theories behind mindsets. It includes a range...
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January 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy about my case study of ”Anders”, a language learner in his 80s with a growth learning mindset!!! Chapter 6 in this fantastic new book! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
Just realized that my position paper in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics has been viewed by almost 2,200 since it was published in April. Made my day! I hope the paper will make L2 learning researchers think twice when deciding on ID variables in future research designs.
December 9, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Just realized that my position paper in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics has been viewed by almost 2,200 since it was published in April. Made my day! I hope the paper will make L2 learning researchers think twice when deciding on ID variables in future research designs.
Good day at work: my application for funding INNOVATION in research got a small but important starting grant! A new test of L2 English vocabulary for young learners, with Henrik Gyllstad and #STAGE_Noway😀https://www.uio.no/english/about/news-and-events/news/2024/uios-innovation-funds-2024.html
Knowledge in use: NOK 4,5 million to innovative UiO researchers
- University of Oslo
21 projects have been granted funding from the rector's office to develop solutions to meet societal needs. We congratulate all the research groups!
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November 18, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Good day at work: my application for funding INNOVATION in research got a small but important starting grant! A new test of L2 English vocabulary for young learners, with Henrik Gyllstad and #STAGE_Noway😀https://www.uio.no/english/about/news-and-events/news/2024/uios-innovation-funds-2024.html
My first position paper was published in ARAL in April. I argue that Extramural English should be treated as an individual difference variable. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Extramural English as an individual difference variable in L2 research: Methodology matters
www.cambridge.org
November 17, 2024 at 7:17 PM
My first position paper was published in ARAL in April. I argue that Extramural English should be treated as an individual difference variable. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...