Biosketch: Dr. Annika Lantz-Andersson

Annika Lantz-Andersson holds a post doc in the LETStudio and works as Senior Lecturer in Education at University of Gothenburg. Annika's research, which is rooted in a sociocultural tradition concerns research on communication and learning from a dialogical and microanalytical perspective, with a focus on social interaction the use of digital technology and what that implies for learning and education. The general aim of Annika's PhD study was to explore the in situ practices that emerge among students when technology becomes part of educational arrangements.

Annika is currently involved in two research projects within the LETStudio milieu:

1. The first project is called Inquiry-to-insight (I2I) where we study young peoples' learning about environmental problems in the context of acidification of oceans by means of various digital resources with a research interest in how their understandings of science knowledge develop.
2. The second research project named "Linguascapes - Language learning in social media worlds", is financed by The Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. This project has a focus on young people's engagement in social media worlds, in order to study how such resources and new arenas can enhance the learning of English as a second language. The aim of this project is to study how the gap between young people’s language learning in social media practices and language learning practices in educational settings can be bridged.

Both research projects outlined above is motivated by interests in how we appropriate new knowledge and gain new experiences in various social settings and the role of digital technologies in such activities.

Recent publications

Peer reviewed international journal papers

Lantz-Andersson, A., Vigmo, S., & Bowen, R. (submitted). Crossing boundaries: Students’ framing of language learning in Facebook

Fauville, G., Lantz-Andersson A., & Säljö, R. (accepted). ICT tools in environmental education - reviewing two newcomers to schools.

Petersson, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R. (submitted). Exploring nature through virtual experimentation. Picking up concepts and modes of reasoning in regular classroom practices.

Lantz-Andersson, A., & Linderoth, J. (2011). The ‘voice’ of absent designers - Students’ strategies when solving mathematical problems using educational software. Nordic Journal of Digital literacy, 6(1-2), 52-74.

Peer reviewed conference papers

Petersson, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R (2012). The Virtual Lab as a Context for Collaboration and Learning. Invited Symposium by the International Academy of Education at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). April 13-17, Vancouver. British Columbia, Canada.

Vigmo, S., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Bowen, R. (2012). Linguascapes - language learning in social media worlds. Next Generation Learning Conference 2012, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden. February 21-23.

Lantz-Andersson, A., Vigmo, S., & Bowen, R. (2012). Students' Framing of Language Learning Practices in Social Networking Site. Eurocall 2012 Conference: CALL: using, learning, knowing, Gothenburg, August 22-25, 2012.

Fauville, G., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R. (2012). International student Carbon Footprint Challenge - Social media as a content and language integrated learning environment. Eurocall 2012 Conference: CALL: using, learning, knowing, Gothenburg, August 22-25, 2012.

Lantz-Andersson, A., Peterson, L., & Nilsen. M. (2012). Upp till IT - Digitala utmaningar i lärarutbildning. Round Table presentation at NU 2012- Gränslöst lärande, National Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Gothenburg, October 17-19, 2012.

Lantz-Andersson, A., & Petersson, E. (2011). Knowing nature through experimentation: Science literacy and the situatedness of knowing. Invited SIG, EARLI Conference 2011, Exeter, United Kingdom, August 30-September 3, 2011.