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Olga Anatoli Smith

PhD student

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.

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Publications

2025

Olga Anatoli (2025) Being and Becoming a Bilingual Preschooler: A Co-Operative Action Approach to Bilingual Early Childhood Education and Care

2024

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

2023

Olga Anatoli Smith (Ivanova), Asta Čekaitė (2023) Child-initiated informings and conversational participation in a bilingual preschool Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 217, p. 33-48 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anna Sparrman, Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk, Olga Anatoli Smith (Ivanova), Klara Andersson, Deniz Arzuk, Johanna Annerbäck, Linnea Bodén, Mindy Blaise, Claudia Castañeda, Rebecca Coleman, Florian Eßer, Matt Finn, Daniel Gustafsson, Peter Holmqvist, Jonathan Josefsson, Peter Kraftl, Nick Lee, Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, Sarah Mitchell, Karin Murris, Alex Orrmalm, David Oswell, Alan Prout, Rachel Rosen, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Johanna Sjöberg, Karen Smith, Spyros Spyrou, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Affrica Taylor, Ohad Zehavi, Emilia Zotevska (2023) Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol. 15 (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

Portrait of researcher

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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