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Kristin Killie is a researcher and faculty member at the Department of Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her work focuses on historical linguistics, particularly the development of English grammatical structures (e.g., progressive constructions, adverbial suffixes), and second language acquisition, especially Norwegian learners' challenges with English grammar. She leads the Teaching and Learning English (TALE) project, exploring effective pedagogical strategies for English language instruction. Her research also addresses language variation, corpus-based studies, and teacher practices in Norwegian schools.
Key research interests include grammaticalization theory, subject-verb agreement errors in L2 learners, and the impact of technology (spell checkers) on language learning. She collaborates with institutions like the Language Data and Language Change (LDLC) group at the University of Bergen and contributes to journals such as Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching.
