Publications

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (in press). Revisiting Extramural English and lexical complexity: An approximate replication of Kaatari et al. (2023). Studies in Second Language Acquisition. [Open Access]

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y. & Sundqvist, P. (2026). Introducing and evaluating a measure of lexical diversity across word classes. TESOL Quarterly. [Open Access]

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2026). The effects of Extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach. System, 103880. [Open Access]

Wang, Y., Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Xiong, H., & Liu, F. (2025). Introducing the Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC): A new resource for exploring the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 47(5), 1469-1487 . [Open Access]

Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Larsson, T. (2024). Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: A corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing. Corpora, 19(1), 17-30.  [Open Access]

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Aciakara-Eickhoff, S., & Sundqvist, P. (2023). Exploring the effects of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production. Journal of Second Language Writing, 101062 .  [Open Access]

Conference presentations

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2027).  L2 students don’t just game, watch, or read: Extramural English profiles and linguistic complexity. AAAL 2027, 13–16 March 2027, Atlanta (GA), United States.

Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., Kim, T., Sundqvist, P. & Biber, D. (2026). Assessing the impact of self-initiated reading and gaming on intermediate-level L2 student writer's grammatical complexity. LCR 2026, 16–19 September, Prague, the Czech Republic.

Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., Kim, T., Sundqvist, P. & Biber, D. (2026). Does self-initiated reading and gaming affect intermediate-level L2 student writers’ grammatical complexity? ICAME 47, 26–30 May, Koblenz, Germany.

Kaatari, H., Kim, T., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2026). Prompt effects on L2 English writing. AACL 2026, 18–19 April, Gainesville, FL, United States. 

Kaatari, H., Kim, T., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2026). Introducing a framework for measuring prompt dependency, diversity and engagement in L2 writing. AAAL 2026, 21– 4 March 2026, Chicago (IL), United States.

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2025). The impact of self-initiated L2 English reading on phraseological variation in student writing. Corpus Linguistics 2025, 30 June–3 July, Birmingham, UK.

Wang, Y., Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Kim, T., & Sundqvist, P. (2025). The impact of Extramural English activities on phraseological complexity in L2 writing. Corpus Linguistics 2025, 30 June–3 July, Birmingham, UK.

Wang, Y., Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Kim, T., & Sundqvist, P. (2025). Exploring the relationship between L2 learners’ Extramural English activities and phraseological complexity in their written production. EUROSLA34 (the European Second Language Association), 25–28 June, Tromsø, Norway.

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2025). The effects of Extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach. ICAME46 (the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), 17–21 June, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Wang, Y., Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Kim, T., & Sundqvist, P. (2025). Phraseological complexity in L2 writing: The role of Extramural English activities. EUROPHRAS 13 (the European Society of Phraseology), 19–22 May 2025, Aarhus, Denmark.

Kaatari, H., Kim, T., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2025). Prompt dependency and the effect of Extramural English engagement on learner writing. The 13th National Forum for English Studies , 8–11 April 2025, Lund, Sweden.

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2025). The impact of self-initiated reading activities on L2 learners’ phraseological complexity. AAAL 2025, 22–25 March 2025, Denver (CO), United States.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024). The effect of self-initiated L2 activities on intermediate-level students' lexical complexity. LCR 2024 (the International Conference for Learner Corpus Research), 26–28 September 2024, Tartu, Estonia.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024). What type of language input has a positive effect on lexical complexity? A study of L2 student writing. AACL 2024 (American Association for Corpus Linguistics), 13–15 September 2024, Eugene (OR), United States.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024). L2 extramural activities and lexical complexity. Educational Linguistics 2024, 11–13 September 2024, Kalmar, Sweden.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024). Lexical complexity and L2 English learners: The effect of different self-initiated out-of-school activities on writing. TaLC 2024 (Teaching and Language Corpora Conference), 7–10 July 2024, Manchester, UK

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024). Self-initiated L2 English activities and their effects on lexical complexity in student writing. ICAME45 (the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), 18–22 June 2024, Vigo, Spain.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024). The impact of extramural English activities on lexical sophistication in intermediate-level L2 student writing. ASLA 2024 (the Swedish Applied Linguistics Association), 18–19 April 2024, Falun, Sweden.

Outreach

17 June, 2026. Workshop at Ämneslärardagen (Karlstad University) with English teachers.

2 March, 2026. Workshop at Sundsta-Älvkullegymnasiet in Karlstad with English teachers.

The teaching materials developed in the project which were presented at these two workshops can be found here.