Krulatz, Anna Maria

Fagområde

I think of myself as an applied linguist. This always provokes the question, "Oh! So, what languages do you speak?" - to which I may respond, "Well, for starters, it's English, Russian, Polish, French, German, Slovak, Spanish, Luri, Zulu, Echuwabo and Kapingamarangi, and currently working on Norwegian" and hope you will walk away wondering where on earth they speak Kapingamarangi. I like studying foregin languages but it is not a major component of my profession. Rather, I am interested in how, in a broad sense, languages are learned. I have some convictions about the factors that may contribute to the outcome. More narrowly, I am interested in acquisition of second/foreign language pragmatics by adult learners, but I am also broadly interested in multi-/foreign language pedagogy.

Random facts: winter is my favorite season; I have a German Shepherd named Hanza (which means "a band of bad guys" in Czech); I obsessively read young reader disutopias ('Sowing,' currently); I have eaten the best smoked trout (forel') in Krasnoyarsk and the best guacamole in Spartanburg, SC; I am left-handed; I'm seriously concerned about the fate of dolpihns and small whales in Taiji, Japan.

Faglige prosjekter

Current projects:

Multilingualism in Trondheim public schools: raising teacher awareness in the English as a Foreign Language classroom

Designing effective foreign language lessons: an enhanced tool for lesson planning.

Integrating pragmatics instruction in CBI contexts.

Electronic requests in non-native speaker Russian.