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Attending to and fostering argumentation in whole class discussion
2018
Prior studies highlighted the importance of whole class discussion after student activities and have focused, for example, on teacher moves in supporting discussion. We characterize two processes in teacher-students interaction in argumentation discussions: attending to and fostering. These processes describe how student argumentation feeds teacher talk that in turn feeds student argumentation. We analysed video recordings of one whole class 7th grade lesson when students made geometric constructions and engaged in argumentation discussion. We elaborated on four themes in how the teacher talk attended to and fostered student argumentation. We argue that the concepts of attending to and fost…
Performance Measurement in Scaled Agile Organizations
2021
Investigating the effectiveness of a digital game-based task on the acquisition of word knowledge
2020
This study investigates the probable effect of a digital game-based vocabulary learning (DGBVL) task on the acquisition of some components of a word knowledge framework. In so doing, 124 Persian speakers (56 males and 68 females) were randomly assigned to either a control or an experimental group. The experimental group participants completed a DGBVL task for acquiring ten low-frequent inanimate object names, or lexical nouns, by playing a commercial adventure game. The control group participants practiced the same words in a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary acquisition exercise. In brief, first, all participants sat for a word-checklist and a proficiency test; next, they completed their tasks,…
A Contrastive Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems for Finnish
2019
Aiempi saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämistä käsittelevä työ, kuten monet muut luonnollisen kielen käsittelyyn liittyvät tehtävät, on enimmäkseen keskittynyt englannin kieleen. Vaikka hieman työtä on tehty myös muilla kielillä, mukaan lukien uralilaiset kielet, vertailevaa arviointia suomen kielen saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämisestä ei ole tähän mennessä julkaistu huolimatta siitä, että tarvittavat leksikaaliset resurssit, erityisesti FinnWordNet, ovat jo pitkään olleet saatavilla. Tämä työ pyrkii korjaamaan tilanteen. Se tarjoaa tuloksia merkittävimpiä lähestymistapoja saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämiseen edustavista ohjelmista, sisältäen joitakin parhaiten engla…
Viittomakielet hybridisysteemeinä - hämärärajaisuus ja epäkonventionaalisuus osana viittomakielten rakennetta
2018
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan hämärärajaisuutta ja epäkonventionaalisuutta osana joitakin kaikista viittomakielistä löydettyjä yksiköitä ja rakenteita ja niiden käyttöä. Täsmällisemmin artikkelin fokuksessa ovat tietyt muodoltaan ja merkitykseltään tilanteisesti muuntuvat viittomat (erityisesti niin kutsutut osittain leksikaaliset viittomat) sekä eräänlainen vaihteleva-asteinen näytteleminen (niin kutsuttu konstruoitu toiminta), jota viittojat käyttävät tuottamiensa syntaktisten rakenteiden osana ja niiden sijaan. Käytännössä artikkeli esittelee näkemyksen, jonka mukaan molemmissa tarkastelun kohteena olevissa ilmiöissä on kyse samasta asiasta eli kielen diskreettien ja konventionaaliste…
Show, Don't Tell : Visualising Finnish Word Formation in a Browser-Based Reading Assistant
2020
This paper presents the NiinMikaOli?! reading assistant for Finnish. The focus is upon the simplified presentation and visualisation of a wide range of word-level linguistic phenomena of the Finnish language in a unified form so as to benefit language learners. The system is available as a browser extension, intended to be used in-context, with authentic texts, in order to encourage free reading in language learners. peerReviewed
ProGram data : The stories Snowman and Frog, where are you? [video corpus]
2016
"ProGram-aineisto, lumiukko- ja sammakkotarinat" koostuu suomalaisella viittomakielellä viitotuista tarinoista "Lumiukko" ("Snowman") ja "Sammakko, missä olet?" ("Frog, where are you?"). Aineisto on arkistoitu Kielipankkiin. Finnish Sign Language material collected in the ProGram project. The material consists of video files and their annotations in ELAN format. The material is archived in The Language Bank of Finland.
Annotated Video Corpus of FinSL with Kinect and Computer-Vision Data
2016
This paper presents an annotated video corpus of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) to which has been appended Kinect and computer-vision data. The video material consists of signed retellings of the stories Snowman and Frog, where are you?, elicited from 12 native FinSL signers in a dialogue setting. The recordings were carried out with 6 cameras directed toward the signers from different angles, and 6 signers were also recorded with one Kinect motion and depth sensing input device. All the material has been annotated in ELAN for signs, translations, grammar and prosody. To further facilitate research into FinSL prosody, computer-vision data describing the head movements and the aperture change…
The JULIET programme in the University of Jyväskylä : a view from the inside
2016
Finland is well known for its teacher education system. The author is interested in teacher education in Finland, especially the language teacher education. The JULIET Programme is combines teacher education with teaching English in primary schools. The author decided to research teacher education evaluation with the JULIET Programme. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the JULIET Programme. Strengths and weaknesses will be evaluated with the purpose of contributing programme improvements and better experiences for JULIET students. The researcher used the qualitative research method and focused ethnography to conduct the research. Interviews and observation were used for …
‘The Class of My Dreams’ as Envisioned by Student Teachers of English : What Is There to Teach about the Language?
2019
As part of a bigger project on the motivation of future EFL teachers, this chapter sets out to find out what a group of student teachers (N = 67) in Finland thought teaching English would involve once they had graduated from an MA programme and entered the profession a few years later. They were asked to envision ‘An English class of my dreams’ as the final home assignment on one of their first professionally oriented courses. The envisioning was done visually so the students produced pictures (by a variety of means) and provided further details about the class in writing, on the reverse side of the task sheet. The pool of multimodal data collected was subjected to content analysis, and it …