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The game of developing a game : hobbyist game developers as playful entrepreneurs in the Apple App Store
2015
Contraintes et libertés textuelles
2006
The article starts from a conception of language according to which the semiotic units that speakers use do not emanate from individual mental processes but from the socialization of representation instruments which, being individual elements initially, have later been involved in processes of communicative circulation. In the same way that, in each language, verbal uses are limited by a series of restrictions in the constitution of some phonic, lexical or morphosyntactic structures, there are also some other constraints that affect textual genres. This means that these are the product of the history of the uses of language and that they work at a praxeologic level. These ideas apply to the…
The (im)possible success of disadvantaged students. Reflections on education, migration and social change
2019
The paper focuses on the ?unexpected pathways? of successful students with an immigrant background: these biographical routes, that seems socially impossible, raise theoretical issues around the individual-society, actor-structure relationship. Disadvantaged students who succeed represent a sociological challenge in the attempt to understand atypical situations and to identify the institutional processes and the structural opportunities that facilitate them, reducing ethnic inequalities in education. This framework is the starting point of the Su.Per. project (Success in educational pathways of students with immigrant background), based on the collection of written autobiographies of 65 imm…
Student teachers and their identity construction and awareness of multilingualism: re-visiting three studies
2019
[EN] This article re-visits three studies that originally focused on beliefs about second language (L2) learning and teaching held by student teachers. The studies have been conducted in the same educational context (that is, at a Finnish university). The participants in the studies are majors or minors in English, Swedish, German, etc., and they range from first-year students to fifth-year students about to graduate as qualified L2 teachers. Data have been collected by a variety of means over the past few years (questionnaires, sentence-completion tasks, drawings), and partly longitudinally. The pools of data (verbal and visual) will be re-analysed from the perspective of identity construc…
Toimijuus korkeakoulutettujen suomen oppijoiden visuaalisissa narratiiveissa
2018
This socioculturally informed study explores how highly educated Finnish language learners represent their agency in visual narratives. Learners (n=59) were asked to draw two pictures of themselves as Finnish language users and provide verbal interpretations of the drawings. The aim of using visual narratives is to reach aspects such as feelings and beliefs which might be difficult to express verbally. The data were analyzed first by using visual grammar set out by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) and secondly by content analysis. The findings suggest that learners saw Finnish language as a tool for oral communication. However, difficulties with speaking and listening appeared to restrict learn…
Personīgajā naratīvā lietoto vārdu kategoriju un indivīda afektīvā stāvokļa sakarības
2020
Pētījumā tika apskatīts vārdu kategoriju lietojums personīgā naratīva izteikšanā, raugoties arī uz afekta izmaiņām. Tika izvirzītas divas hipotēzes, ka tiks novērotas lietoto negatīvo emociju vārdu un uz sevi attiecinošo vārdu saistība ar afektu pēc negatīvā naratīva izteikšanas, un ka tiks novērota lietoto pozitīvo emociju vārdu saistība ar afektu pēc pozitīvā naratīva izteikšanas. Papildu tika izvirzīti divi pētījumi par to, vai tiks atklātas atšķirības afektā pēc katra personīgā naratīva izteikšanas, un vai tiks novērotas sakarības starp afekta dimensijām. Pētījumā piedalījās 47 respondenti vecumā no 18-54 gadiem. Tika izmantots kodolafekta mērījums un izmantoto vārdu kategoriju proporci…