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Henrik Gyllstad is an Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics at Lund University's Centre for Languages and Literature, part of the Faculty of Humanities and Theology. He maintains an active research program in second language acquisition, language assessment, and vocabulary studies while contributing significantly to departmental teaching and administration.
His research interests center on English vocabulary and phraseology, the multilingual mental lexicon, language testing and assessment, and second language acquisition. Gyllstad employs experimental psycholinguistic methods to study how lexical phrases are processed, stored, and learned in adult bilingual individuals, with particular attention to collocations and idiomatic expressions.
His recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory toward investigating vocabulary acquisition mechanisms, translanguaging practices in classrooms, and innovative language assessment methodologies. The research spans psychometric validation of vocabulary tests, spaced repetition effects on collocation learning, and the relationship between vocabulary knowledge constructs and reading proficiency.
- Principal Investigator for Compounds project within TEAM program (2024-2029)
- Researcher on STAGE project (2021-2025)
- Completed PI for Phraseological Processing project (2013-2015)
Gyllstad has supervised three doctoral students to completion (Anika Lloyd-Smith, Lari-Valtteri Suhonen, and Elin Nylander) and currently supervises two more (Sophia Juul and Angelica Zordan). He has served as external examiner for 12 PhD theses internationally. His extensive reviewing activities include approximately 100 reviews for leading journals in applied linguistics and language testing.
He is an active member of the LAMiNATE research environment and serves as treasurer for ASLA (Swedish Association for Applied Linguistics) since 2023. Gyllstad also contributes to academic publishing as a member of editorial boards for ITL, Lingua, and Educare journals, and as associate editor for 'Lexis' in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
