Eva Thue Vold

Eva Thue Vold is Professor in Foreign Language Didactics at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo. Her work focuses on language acquisition, multilingualism, and classroom observation using video data. She leads research on interlanguage analysis, learner corpus studies, and models for language teacher education.

• PhD in French Linguistics, University of Bergen (2008)
• Cand.philol in French, English, and Psychology, University of Bergen (2001)

Her research explores:

• Writing development in foreign languages
• Intercultural competence in English and French classrooms
• Grammar didactics and metacognition in language learning
• Games and play in language pedagogy
• French-Norwegian contrastive linguistic analysis

Recent publications analyze classroom discourse patterns, lexical richness in beginner French learners, and the role of machine translation in metalinguistic talk. She contributes to projects like Language use and instruction across contexts (LANGUAGES) and Studies of Instruction across Subjects and Competences (SISCO).

Her work addresses pedagogical innovation through:

• Contextualized grammar instruction
• Intercultural communication strategies
• Teacher training program evaluation
• Longitudinal learner corpus construction
• Feedback practice optimization
• Code-switching in multilingual classrooms