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Olga Anatoli Smith

Postdoc

Multilingual language acquisition and socialization

I research on multilingual language acquisition and socialization. Using videography and methods of interactional linguistics, I document children’s linguistic and social development in peer-centered and child-adult interactions, particularly in the institutional setting of preschools.

Publications

2025

Olga Anatoli Smith (2025) Multimodality, embodiment, and language learning in bilingual early childhood education: Enskilment practices in a Swedish-English preschool Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Vol. 50, Article 100879 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Olga Anatoli (2025) Being and Becoming a Bilingual Preschooler: A Co-Operative Action Approach to Bilingual Early Childhood Education and Care

2024

Alex Orrmalm, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Rebecka Tiefenbacher, Joel Löw, Johanna Annerbäck, Johanna Sköld, Emilia Strid, Sanna Hedrén, Lina Lago, Olga Anatoli Smith, Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk, Alan Prout, Marek Tesar (2024) Centring children in research: A collaborative exploration into child-centredness as method and theory Child Studies, Vol. 6, p. 11-32 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Myung Hwa Baldini, Rebecka Tiefenbacher, Effrosyni Terzoglou, Joacim Strand, Veronica Hällqvist, Emilia Holmbom Strid, Olga Anatoli, Anna Sparrman, Marek Tesar (2024) Listening to children and young people in Sweden: Practices, possibilities, and tensions Global Studies of Childhood, Vol. 14, p. 214-226 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Olga Anatoli (2024) Swedish-English preschool as a site for the collaborative discovery of bilingual meanings Journal of Early Childhood Education Research, Vol. 13, p. 92-121 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research project

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Learning to Communicate and Collaborate through Bodily Expression and Art

In this project artists and pedagogues engage in developing an innovative methodology that will empower young people who may be facing fewer opportunities and social exclusion, particularly those with minority or migrant background.

CV

CV

  • 2015-2018
    Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • 2015
    PhD, Applied Linguistics, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • 2009
    M.A. Asien-Afrika-Institut Hamburg University (Germany)
  • 2006
    B.A., Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University (Russia)

 

Personal website

www.olgaanatoli.com

Research

Children’s language acquisition in preschool amid multilingualism 

Teaching

Teaching courses and supervise students in the Master of Social Science in Child Studies programme.

Supervisor

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Asta Cekaite

Deputy Dean, Professor

Co-supervisor

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Amanda Bateman

Professor

Organisation

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Child Studies (TEMAB)

Education and research at Child Studies is about childhood and family with a focus on interaction and language, children's culture and consumption, and childhood over time and space, all to better see the perspectives of children and young people.

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