Victoria Johansson

I have a PhD in Linguistics, and my research interests involve various aspects of writing, literacy and the development of writing. I'm especially interested in the process behind producing a text – what is easy or difficult for the writer, and why is it so? I have worked in several projects addressing this questions.

Since 2010 I work in the projekt Gaze behavior in writing, where eye-tracking technology is used to investigate where and when a writer looks at her text during writing. I am also involved in the Linnéproject Thinking in Time. From 2012 I am project leader for "Expert writing – divine inspiration or hard work", where we will study how expert writers like authors and journalist plan and edit their texts, and from 2013 I also work with the project "Enhance writing – keystroke logging and peer observation – new tools for children's text writing".

I also work in the Humanities Lab as it-pedagogue, where I help others to use computer programs in their research

Research

• Present projects
• Keystroke logging and peer observation – new tools for childrens' text writing (research leader)This project will implement and evaluate a model for training writing skills for school children with and without typical linguistic development. In this ...
• Expert writing – divine inspiration or hard work? (research leader)A mystical air has surrounded writing and story-telling ever since the song goddess of the ancient Greeks. Still today many believe that really good writing ...
• Gaze behaviour in writingOne of the most important characteristics of writing is that the text stays visible and thus accessible throughout the production process. In this project ...
• Completed projects
• Reading during writingMost models of the text production process include a component of reading. However there is very little research on what, when, how, and why writers read ...
• The role of function words in spontaneous speech processingThe project involved a number of studies investigating the role of function words in speech processing. Three tasks were undertaken: 1) empirical investigations ...
• Developmental Aspect of Text Production in Writing and SpeechThis thesis aims at describing the developmental patterns of text production in four text types: spoken and written narrative texts, and spoken and written ...
• Dynamics of Perception and Production in Text WritingThe aim of the project is to study the dynamic relationships between production and perception in reading and writing. Researchers from the Department ...

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