As we all know, the coronavirus changed a lot of plans in March 2020, and in turn it affected our teachers' ability to work on anything else but surviving the overnight change to teaching online with all the challenges that brought. Once teachers and students began their return to campus, and life 'normalized' our thoughts returned to publishing. Thus, Kielikeskus tutkii 5 was rescheduled for autumn 2023. In this latest journal we present seven new articles on a broad range of topics related to language centre teaching.

The themes reflect more traditional aspects of our teaching and the changing times we have gone through. The scope of the articles ranges from the role of language and communication skills in supporting future careers, to how Swedish is being used in the modern workplace to the expectations of students of Swedish at university. The changing nature of the language centre as a workplace is represented by articles on learning objectives for the digital age, and on the experiences of student teachers during the corona years. Cultural issues are explored in relation to exchange students' experiences of Finland and we also hear the student voice, from the Spanish perspective.