Forskning
My research at Karlstad University investigates the practiced, perceived, and declared language policies in English-Swedish bilingual families.
I am also a research assistant at Språkbanken (University of Gothenburg) in the Swedish Research Council funded project South Asia as a linguistic area? Exploring big-data methods in areal and genetic linguistics.
Teaching
I have been involved in courses relating to language acquisition, language teaching, and linguistics. I have also been involved in supervising bachelor thesis projects in English linguistics.
Manuscript review
I have reviewed manuscripts for the Bilingual Research Journal, the Swedish Association for Applied Linguistics, and De Gruyter Mouton.
Other
Board member of the SULF Association of Doctoral Candidates (SDF).
Board member (PhD representative) of the Swedish Society for the Study of English (SWESE).
Utvalda publikationer
Parents’ and grandparents’ views on home language regimes: Language ideologies and trajectories of two multilingual families in Sweden
Soler, J. & Roberts, T. 2019. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2018.1564878
Relativisation in the Writing of Swedish L2 Learners of English: A corpus-based study
Roberts, T. 2017. Master's thesis. Uppsala University.
Conference presentations
What does it mean to be 'bilingual' in order to be included in qualitative studies on bilingualism?
Roberts, T. and A. Schalley. 2018. The Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics (ASLA) Symposium. Karlstad University.
Linguistic trajectories, ideologies and repertoires of multilingual families in Sweden
Roberts, T. 2017. The 2nd Symposium of Language Policy in the Family, the Preschool and the School. University of Jyväskylä.
Language practice and ideology in trans-national multilingual families
Soler, J. and T. Roberts. 2016. The 9th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF9). University of Lleida.