NEWS Yulia Kashevarova, doctoral student in linguistics at the Department of Language Studies, presented her past and present research on multilingualism at the Humfestival organised by Södra Latins gymnasium.
Yulia Kashevarova, doktorand vid Institutionen för språkstudier.
ImageYulia Kashevarova.“I was very happy and grateful to be asked to share my research interests and findings. It was the first popular science presentation I have held in Swedish and the audience could not be better! They were truly engaged”.
The Humfestival featured presentations by researchers from different higher education institutions in Sweden. Yulia's presentation focused on the master's thesis she wrote at Stockholm University, which the Humanities Faculty Club (Humanistiska föreningen) named the best master's thesis of 2023. The motivation states that the thesis is of an impressive scientific level. The work has high social relevance and Yulia writes in a way that resonates with the reader and makes the relatively complicated subject easy to digest and accessible. The paper has a high scientific relevance and pushes the research forward in a way that is inspiring.
Yulia has a background as a language teacher, translator and interpreter and has also worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Bilingualism Research at Stockholm University. Since the autumn semester 2024, she is a doctoral student at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University.
“In my doctoral project I am investigating how adult learners of Swedish as a third language can use multiple kinds of cues to event participants as the learners produce or comprehend Swedish in real time.
On 24-25 March, the Bilingual Matters Symposium will be held in Edinburgh - one of the largest conferences on the topic of multilingualism. Yulia will give a digital presentation on L1 phonological competition remaining significant in high-constraint L3 sentences.
Bilingual matters symposium 2025