Veslemøy Rydland

Veslemøy Rydland is a Professor at the Department of Education, University of Oslo. Her research focuses on minority language children, language and communication, reading comprehension, bilingual development, and socio-emotional development. She leads the ongoing project Teaching for text comprehension: Supporting young second-language learners' text comprehension in urban multiethnic preschools in Norway (PreComp).

• PhD (2007), Faculty of Education, University of Oslo
• Cand. Paed. (2001), Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo

Her recent work examines emotion socialization strategies, language interventions, and parent-teacher collaboration in multilingual settings. Publications emphasize shared reading, code-switching, and teacher-child interactions. Current projects include the Språksterk 1–6 initiative funded by the Research Council of Norway and Oslo Municipality.