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Lasten aggressiivinen käyttäytyminen päiväkodin työntekijöiden näkökulmasta

2016

Tämän tutkimuksen kohteena ovat päiväkodin työntekijöiden kokemukset lasten aggressiivisesta käyttäytymisestä. Tarkoituksena oli selvittää, millaista päiväkodin työntekijöiden kohtaama lasten aggressiivinen käyttäytyminen on ja kuinka usein sitä kohdataan. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli myös selvittää, millaisia toimintatapoja työntekijät käyttävät aggressiivisesti käyttäytyvän lapsen kohtaamisessa ja millainen merkitys näillä kohtaamisilla on heidän työmotivaatioonsa. Kyseessä oli pääpiirteiltään laadullinen tutkimus, mutta siinä esiintyi myös määrällisen tutkimuksen piirteitä. Aineiston keruu tapahtui sähköisellä kyselylomakkeella. Tutkimuksessa selvisi, että päiväkoti-ikäisten lasten aggr…

Innovaatiot ja infrastruktuurit : infrastruktuurihankkeen toteuttaminen strategisten tavoitteiden tueksi Jyväskylän yliopiston musiikin laitoksessa

2008

Tuote- ja asiakasryhmittäisen kannattavuuden analysointi toimintolaskennan avulla maahantuonti- ja tukkuliikkeessä : case Refair Oy

2012

Second Language Prosody and its Development : Connection between Different Aspects

2018

This study focuses on the development of L2 prosody and, in particular, whether different aspects can affect each other. Finnish-speaking learners of Swedish took part in a pronunciation and oral skills course and were recorded for various speaking tasks before and after the experimental intervention. Read-aloud declarative sentences (statements) from nine learners were acoustically analysed for several tonal and temporal aspects, focusing on the marking of primary stress. The results reveal that the learning of Swedish tonal word accent 2 (H*LH) facilitates other tonal developments towards native-like utterance intonation. A link between tonal and temporal developments in the marking of pr…

Lärarnas uppfattningar av att inleda undervisningen i A1-språk i årskurs 1

2022

Since 2020, the teaching of the A1 language starts in grade 1. In order to study the shift to an earlier start to the teaching of the A1 language, a survey of the teaching of A1 languages in grade 1 was carried out with the focus on the most common A1 languages: Finnish in the Swedish-medium schools and English in the Finnish-medium schools. The article examines the teachers’ perceptions of starting the teaching of A1 languages in grade 1. The data consists of 644 answers to an online questionnaire, of which 94 apply to A1 Finnish and 550 to A1 English. The results show that the teachers generally have a positive perception of early language teaching and consider starting the language in gr…

Guiding and assessing development of L2 writing process : the role of peer collaboration

2022

This study, informed by Vygotskian notion of mediation and reporting on a partnership between a researcher (the first author) and a teacher (the second author), aims at exploring how peers’ comments can inform teacher assessment and guidance of learners’ L2 (second/foreign language) writing. The participants were 19 L2 English learners in an upper secondary school in Finland. We largely focus on the notes that one pair of learners made on each other’s essays and how they responded to peer assistance. Triangulating these data with classroom observation and a questionnaire, we traced how learners co-constructed their understanding of how their texts can be developed. The foci and how the iden…

Investigating Syntactic Complexity in EFL Learners' Writing across Common European Framework of Reference Levels A1, A2, and B1

2019

Abstract The study investigates the linguistic basis of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels in English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing. Specifically, it examines whether CEFR levels can be distinguished with reference to syntactic complexity (SC) and whether the results differ between two groups of EFL learners with different first languages (Sindhi and Finnish). This sheds light on the linguistic comparability of the CEFR levels across L1 groups. Informants were teenagers from Pakistan (N = 868) and Finland (N = 287) who wrote the same argumentative essay that was rated on a CEFR-based scale. The essays were analysed for 28 SC indices with the L2 Syntactic Co…

Finnish comprehensive school pupils' language disposition : language shower as a means of diversifying language choices

2013

Kielten opiskelu on yksipuolistunut Suomessa viime vuosina. Englannilla on vahva asema lähes pakollisena ensimmäisenä kielenä, kun taas vapaaehtoisten kielten opiskelu on vähentynyt. Kehityksen suuntaa on koetettu kääntää erilaisilla projekteilla ja esimerkiksi kielisuihkuttamalla oppilaita. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, miten koululaiset suhtautuvat englannin, saksan, ranskan ja venäjän kieliin sekä voisiko kielisuihkutukseen osallistuminen antaa oppilaille parempia valmiuksia valita muitakin kieliä englannin lisäksi. Motivaatio on yksi tärkeimmistä kielivalintaan vaikuttavista tekijöistä, joten tutkimus hyödynsi motivaatiotutkimuksen perinteitä ja metodeja. Tutkimusote ol…

The roles of linguistic confidence and integrative motivation on cross-cultural adaptation of Asian degree students Finland

2015

While cross-cultural adaptation of international students has become more and more popular topics in the field of intercultural communication, there are few studies related to students who come to non-native-English-speaking countries to study international programs. Specifically, the number of Asian students enrolling in international degree programs in Finland has been increasing recently. Besides other difficulties, language has become one of the most baffling issues in the process of both sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation of strangers in the host country (Maza, 1963). By narrowing the impacts of integrative motivation and linguistic confidence, they have drawn some r…

Current L2 self-concept of Finnish comprehensive school students : The role of grades, parents, peers, and society

2021

L2 (second/foreign language) motivation research in Finland has been scarce. Furthermore, international motivational research has focused more on ideal and ought-to selves, leaving the current L2 self-concept in the background. In the present study, we attempted to address this gap, exploring what shapes L1 (mother tongue) Finnish students' understanding of themselves as users and learners of L2s. Using structural equation modelling, we studied the relationships between students' (n = 1206) current L2 self-concept and parental encouragement, peer pressure, societal expectations, and grades. We further studied which of these factors are the best predictors of students' current L2 self-concep…