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My research focuses on language development through the lifespan, with special interest for cognitive aspects of writing. I have studied language production in real time in both writing and speaking. Particular focus is on the process behind a written text: what happens during writing? What is changed, and when? When do writers think and plan, and when do they read during writing? Through the years I've been involved with several research projects addressing these issues. I use and develop several research methods, and is one of the developers behind the keystroke logging program ScriptLog, which also has been combined with eye tracking.
From 2012 I lead the project Expert writing – divine inspiration or hard work? This project investigates how experienced writers plan and revise their texts. In 2013 I started a collaboration with speech and language therapists, where we aim at developing new methods to intervene and improve narrative writing for fifth-graders.
Research
Thesis projects
Research groups
Present projects
Completed projects
- Developmental Aspect of Text Production in Writing and Speech
- Dynamics of Perception and Production in Text Writing
- Expert writing – divine inspiration or hard work? (research leader)
- Gaze behaviour in writing
- Reading during writing
- Skrivprodukter och skrivprocesser – hur ser sambanden ut? Programmeringshjälp (research leader)
- The London-Lund Corpus 2 of spoken British English (LLC 2)
- The role of function words in spontaneous speech processing
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
About the research
I am associate professor in linguistics with a research focus on language development through the lifespan, on linguistic processes in general, and with a special interest for cognitive aspects of writing. I have studied language production in real time in both writing and speaking. Particular focus is on the process behind a written text: what happens during writing? What is changed, and when? When do writers think and plan, and when do they read during writing? Through the years I've been involved with several research projects addressing these issues. I use and develop several research methods, and is one of the developers behind the keystroke logging program ScriptLog, which also has been combined with eye tracking.
I am currently engaged in a collaboration with speech and language therapists, where we aim at developing new methods to intervene and improve narrative writing for fifth-graders, in a collaboration with literary scholars on poetic writing, in a study on how discourse is created in spoken language, and in a study on how children with different degrees of hearing spell. I'm also working on different aspects of comparing writers processes across ages.
Publications
Books (1)
Editorships (2)
- Carling, G., Johansson, V. & Holmer, A. (2014). (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2. Lärarmaterial. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (2013). (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2. Studentlitteratur AB.
Articles (9)
- Gärdenfors, M., Johansson, V. & Schönström, K. (2019). Spelling in deaf, hard of hearing and hearing children with sign language knowledge. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. Frontiers.
- van de Weijer, J., Åkerlund, V., Johansson, V. & Sahlén, B. (2019). Writing intervention in university students with normal hearing and in those with hearing impairment : Can observational learning improve argumentative text writing?. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 44, 115-123. Taylor & Francis.
- Grenner, E., Åkerlund, V., Asker-Árnason, L., van de Weijer, J., Johansson, V. & Sahlén, B. (2018). Improving narrative writing skills through observational learning: A study of Swedish 5th-grade students. Educational Review. Taylor & Francis.
- Torrance, M., Johansson, R., Johansson, V. & Wengelin, Å. (2015). Reading during the composition of multi-sentence texts : an eye-movement study. Psychological Research, 1-15. Springer.
- Johansson, R., Wengelin, Å., Johansson, V. & Holmqvist, K. (2010). Looking at the keyboard or the monitor: relationship with text production processes. Reading and Writing, 23, 835-851. Springer.
- Wengelin, Å., Mark, T., Holmqvist, K., Sol, S., David, G., Johansson, V. & Johansson, R. (2009). Combined eye-tracking and keystroke-logging methods for studying cognitive processes in text production. Behavior Research Methods. The Psychonomic Society.
- Wengelin, Å., Torrance, M., Holmqvist, K., Simpson, S., Galbraith, D., Johansson, V. & Johansson, R. (2009). Combined eyetracking and keystroke-logging methods for studying cognitive processes in text production. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 337-351. The Psychonomic Society.
- Strömqvist, S., Johansson, V., Kriz, S., Ragnarsdóttir, H., Aisenman, R. & Ravid, D. (2002). Toward a crosslinguistic comparison of lexical quanta in speech and writing. Written Language and Literacy, 5, 45-67.
- Tolchinsky, L., Johansson, V. & Zamora, A. (2002). Text openings and closings. Textual Autonomy and differentiation. Written Language and Literacy, 6, 219-253.
Book chapters (18)
- Wengelin, Å., Frid, J., Johansson, R. & Johansson, V. (2019). Combining keystroke logging with other methods : Towards an experimental environment for writing process research. In Lindgren, E. & Sullivan, K. P. (Eds.) Studies in Writing, Observing Writing : Insights from Keystroke Logging and Handwriting (pp. 30-49), 38. Brill.
- Johansson, V., Åkerlund, V. & Sahlén, B. (2018). Writing and Speaking : Children Moving between Modalities. In Spelman-Miller, K. & Stevenson, M. (Eds.) Studies in writing, Transitions in Writing (pp. 200-236), 36. Brill.
- Gustafsson, A. W. & Johansson, V. (2017). Finns det någon gräns för språkvetenskapen?. In Håkansson, D. & Karlsson, A.-M. (Eds.) Varför språkvetenskap? : kunskapsintressen, studieobjekt och drivkrafter (pp. 219-236). Studentlitteratur.
- Wengelin, Å., Johansson, R. & Johansson, V. (2014). Expressive writing in Swedish 15-year-olds with reading and writing difficulties. In Arfé, B., Dockrell, J. & Berninger, V. (Eds.) Writing development in children with hearing loss, dyslexia, or oral language problems : implications for assessment and instruction (pp. 242-269). Oxford University Press.
- Andrén, M., Andersson, A., Håkansson, G., Gullberg, M., Johansson, V. & Sayehli, S. (2013). Att lära sig språk. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 (pp. 73-89). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V. (2013). Att undersöka språk. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 (pp. 315-334). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V. (2013). Om den här boken. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 (pp. 7-14). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V. (2013). Writing – it's like learning a new language!. In Flyman Mattson, A. & Norrby, C. (Eds.) Language Acquisition and Use in Multilingual Contexts (pp. 70-79).
- Johansson, V., Andersson, A., Horne, M., Mårtensson, F., Roll, M., Strandviken, T. & Sayehli, S. (2013). Språk och hjärna. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 (pp. 225-241). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V., Blomberg, J., Håkansson, G. & Gullberg, M. (2013). Människan och språket. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 (pp. 41-52). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V., Holsanova, J., Johansson, R. & Wengelin, Å. (2013). Tala, läsa, skriva. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen. (pp. 53-72). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, V., Wengelin, Å., Holsanova, J. & Johansson, R. (2013). Tala, läsa, skriva. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) Språket, människan och världen. (pp. 53-72). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Johansson, R., Johansson, V. & Wengelin, Å. (2012). Reading during text production. In Torrance, M., Alamargot, D., Castelló, M., Ganier, F., Kruse, O., Mangen, A., Tolchinsky, L. & van Waes, L. (Eds.) Current trends in European Writing Research (pp. 359-361). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Johansson, R., Johansson, V. & Wengelin, Å. (2012). Text production in handwriting versus computer typing. In Torrance, M., Alamargot, D., Castelló, M., Ganier, F., Kruse, O., Mangen, A., Tolchinsky, L. & van Waes, L. (Eds.) Current trends in European Writing Research (pp. 375-377). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Andersson, B., Dahl, J., Holmqvist, K., Holsanova, J., Johansson, V., Karlsson, H., Strömqvist, S., Tufvesson, S. & Wengelin, Å. (2006). Combining Keystroke Logging with Eye Tracking. In van Waes, L., Leijten, M. & Neuwirth, C. (Eds.) Writing and Digital Media (Studies in Writing) (pp. 45-72), 17. Elsevier.
- Strömqvist, S., Holmqvist, K., Johansson, V., Karlsson, H. & Wengelin, Å. (2006). What keystroke-logging can reveal about writing. In Sullivan, K. & Lindgren, E. (Eds.) Computer key-stroke logging and writing: methods and applications (Studies in Writing) (pp. 45-72), 18. Elsevier.
- Holmqvist, K., Holsanova, J., Johansson, V. & Strömqvist, S. (2004). Perceiving and Producing the Frog Story. In Ravid, D. & Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, H. (Eds.) Perspectives on language and language development (pp. 293-306). Kluwer.
- Holmqvist, K., Johansson, V., Strömqvist, S. & Wengelin, Å. (2002). Studying reading and writing on-line. In Strömqvist, S. (Eds.) The diversity of languages and language learning (pp. 103-122). Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
Conference contributions (70)
- Grenner, E., Asker-Árnason, L., Johansson, V. & Sahlén, B. (submitted). Pause patterns and working memory in narrative writing in 11-13 year-old children with hearing impairment and CI or HA.
- van de Weijer, J., Johansson, V., Grenner, E. & Sahlén, B. (accepted/in press). Self-efficacy beliefs and writing intervention in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired pupils.
- Johansson, V. (2019). Language development through the lifespan : Examples from process and product.
- Johansson, V. (2019). The right measure? Linguistic development through the lifetime.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2019). The new London–Lund Corpus (LLC–2) : Design, compilation, access.
- Grenner, E., Johansson, V., van de Weijer, J. & Sahlén, B. (2018). Self-efficacy beliefs about narrative writing in children with and without hearing impairment.
- Johansson, V., Frid, J. & Wengelin, Å. (2018). ScriptLog - an experimental keystroke logging tool.
- Johansson, V., Gustafsson, P. & Frid, J. (2018). Writing development and cognitive effort.
- Wengelin, Å., Johansson, V., Johansson, R. & Frid, J. (2018). Multi-method approaches to studying writing processes.
- Johansson, V. (2017). A cognitive perspective of how authors and author-to-be describe their writing processes.
- Johansson, V. (2017). Att skriva för att lära : Eller Hur ska studenten motiveras att jobba mer än läraren.
- Johansson, V. (2017). Tala och skriva på svenska – likt och olikt : Om mellanstadieelevers språkprocesser i tal och skrift.
- Johansson, V. (2017). Writing development of Swedish native writers : A comparison of product and process in a corpus of expository writing.
- Johansson, V. & Smedberg Bondesson, A. (2017). En dikt blir till.
- Johansson, V., Frid, J. & Gustafsson, P. (2017). Pauses during text writing as a window to linguistic and cognitive development.
- Johansson, V., Frid, J., Gustafsson, P. & Wengelin, Å. (2017). How good writers develop their writing : An experimental study on writing processes and written products.
- Johansson, V., Gustafsson, P. & Wengelin, Å. (2017). Writing development in a linguistic and rhetoric perspective.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). Dialogic resonance in the negotiation of stance : A study of spontaneous conversation in the London-Lund Corpus 2.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). The London-Lund Corpus 2 : A new corpus of spoken British English in the making.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). Turn-taking through the lens of dialogic resonance in spontaneous conversation.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). What gets resonated and why? : Dialogic resonance in the London-Lund Corpus 2.
- Grenner, E., Johansson, V., van de Weijer, J., Asker-Árnason, L. & Sahlén, B. (2016). Writing intervention and observational learning : The relation between text quality, working memory capacity and reading comprehension.
- Johansson, V. (2016). Lärare, handledare och läslyftare.
- Johansson, V. (2016). Senare syntaktisk utveckling : en studie av satstyp och fundament i berättelse och sakprosa.
- Johansson, V. & Smedberg Bondesson, A. (2016). Skriva, läsa, tänka, ändra.
- Johansson, V., Gustafsson, P. & Johansson, R. (2016). From knowledge transformer to knowledge crafter : the making of a skilled writer.
- van de Weijer, J., Johansson, V., Grenner, E. & Sahlén, B. (2016). Accuracy of self-efficacy beliefs and writing performance in children with hearing impairment and normal hearing.
- Grenner, E., Sahlén, B., van de Weijer, J., Asker-Árnason, L., Åkerlund, V. & Johansson, V. (2015). Observational learning and narrative writing : improving text quality for children with and without hearing impairment.
- Johansson, V. (2015). The writer and the reader : advanced writers’ cognitive processes during writing.
- Johansson, V. (2015). Writing development : process and product.
- Johansson, V. & Gustafsson, P. (2015). Revising and pausing in relation to syntactic development.
- Johansson, V., Johansson, R. & Wengelin, Å. (2015). Handwriting and typing : a comparison between written product and writing processes.
- Frid, J., Johansson, V., Johansson, R. & Wengelin, Å. (2014). Developing a keystroke logging program into a writing experiment environment.
- Grenner, E., Asker-Árnason, L., Johansson, V., Åkerlund, V., van de Weijer, J. & Sahlén, B. (2014). The Joy of Writing – Peer Learning in Written Narrative Intervention.
- Grenner, E., Johansson, V., Åkerlund, V., Asker-Árnason, L., van de Weijer, J., Braaksma, M. & Sahlén, B. (2014). Improving narrative skills through observational learning.
- Johansson, V. (2014). Handwriting or Typing : a comparative study.
- Johansson, V. & Gustafsson, A. W. (2014). Varför språkvetare? Om varför-frågor och forskningsetiska principer.
- Johansson, V. & Palviainen, Å. (2014). Pausing during narrative writing : A comparison between L1 and L2 writers.
- Johansson, V., Gustafsson, P., Johansson, R., Wengelin, Å. & Frid, J. (2014). Reader-awareness in adult writers : an investigation of university students at a creative writing-program.
- Johansson, V., Johansson, R., Frid, J. & Wengelin, Å. (2014). Looking on and away from the word currently being typed in expository text writing.
- Johansson, V., Wengelin, Å., Johansson, R. & Frid, J. (2014). Comparing the writing processes in writing with and without the triple task.
- van de Weijer, J., Johansson, V., Åkerlund, V. & Sahlén, B. (2014). Simon says… Can observational learning improve argumentative writing in students with hearing impairment?.
- van de Weijer, J., Johansson, V., Åkerlund, V. & Sahlén, B. (2014). Simon says… Can observational learning improve argumentative writing in students with hearing impairment?.
- Wengelin, Å. & Johansson, V. (2014). Writing dynamics and text quality in first and second language.
- Wengelin, Å., Johansson, R., Johansson, V. & Frid, J. (2014). Writing processes and text characteristics of texts produced in a triple-task situation.
- Gustafsson, P., Johansson, V., Wengelin, Å., Johansson, R. & Frid, J. (2013). Pausering i skrift : skrivflyt i olika åldersgrupper.
- Johansson, V., Wengelin, Å. & Gustafsson, P. (2013). Pausing during writing : a developmental perspective.
- Palviainen, Å. & Johansson, V. (2013). Pause distribution in narrative production of L1 and L2.
- Wengelin, Å. & Johansson, V. (2013). The relation between language and literacy skills in Finnish-Swedish children.
- Asker-Árnason, L., Grenner, E., Johansson, V. & Sahlén, B. (2012). Pause patterns and working memory capacity.
- Asker-Árnason, L., Grenner, E., Johansson, V. & Sahlén, B. (2012). Pausmönster och arbetsminne i skrivprocessen hos tonåringar med hörselnedsättning.
- Asker-Árnason, L., Grenner, E., Johansson, V. & Sahlén, B. (2012). Pausmönster och arbetsminne i skrivprocessen hos ungdomar med CI och HA.
- Asker-Árnason, L., Grenner, E., Johansson, V. & Sahlén, B. (2012). Working memory and pause patterns in the writing of teenagers with hearing impairment.
- Frid, J., Wengelin, Å., Johansson, V., Johansson, R. & Johansson, M. (2012). Testing the temporal accuracy of keystroke logging using the sound card. [Publication information missing].
- Johansson, R., Wengelin, Å., Johansson, V. & Johansson, M. (2012). Reading a finished text versus reading your own emerging text. [Publication information missing].
- Johansson, V. & Gustafson, P. (2012). Writing development during adolescence – what keystroke logging can reveal. [Publication information missing].
- Johansson, V. & Gustafsson, P. (2012). Vad gör man när man skriver? : om processen bakom den färdiga texten.
- Johansson, V., Åkerlund, V., van de Weijer, J. & Sahlén, B. (2012). Improving narrative writing through peer observation and language training.
- Wengelin, Å., Johansson, R. & Johansson, V. (2012). Writing difficulties in Swedish university students with reading and writing difficulties. [Publication information missing].
- Johansson, V. (2011). Linguistic development in speech and writing – what are the differences?.
- Johansson, V. (2011). Språkutveckling i tal och skrift – är det någon skillnad?. In Edlund, A.-C. & Mellenius, I.-M. (Eds.) Svenskans beskrivning (pp. 144-151), 31. Institutionen för språkstudier, Umeå universitet.
- Johansson, V., Wengelin, Å. & Johansson, R. (2011). A new approach to 'text quality'.
- Johansson, R., Johansson, V. & Wengelin, Å. (2010). Reading, lexical measures and syntactic complexity in typing and handwriting.
- Johansson, V. (2010). Språkutveckling i tal och skrift – är det någon skillnad?.
- Johansson, V., Johansson, R. & Wengelin, Å. (2010). A comparison of pausing between writing on keyboard and handwriting.
- Johansson, R., Wengelin, Å., Johansson, V. & Holmqvist, K. (2009). Reading in parallel with writing.
- Johansson, V., Johansson, R. & Wengelin, Å. (2009). Individual strategies of pauses and reading during writing.
- Wengelin, Å., Johansson, R. & Johansson, V. (2009). Writing difficulties in 15-year-olds with reading and writing difficulties.
- Johansson, R., Wengelin, Å., Holsanova, J., Johansson, V. & Holmqvist, K. (2008). Cognitive Processes in Writing are Genre Dependent : A Comparison of Picture Descriptions and Expository Texts.
- Johansson, V., Horne, M. & Strömqvist, S. (2001). Word final aspiration as a phrase boundary cue: Data from spontaneous Swedish discourse. Proceedings Eurospeech 2001, 1, 119-122. ESCA.
Working papers (3)
- Johansson, R., Johansson, V., Wengelin, Å. & Holmqvist, K. (2008). Reading during writing, Four groups of writers. Working Papers, 53. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Johansson, V. (2008). Lexical diversity and lexical density in speech and writing. Lund University, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics.
- Johansson, V., Horne, M. & Strömqvist, S. (2001). Final aspiration as a phrase boundary cue in Swedish: the case of att 'that'. Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics, 49.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Miscellaneous (3)
- Gullberg, M. & Johansson, V. (2019). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2018. Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. & Johansson, V. (2018). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2017. Lund University.
- Johansson, V. (2018). Kognitiva skrivprocesser. Skolverket.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
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