Search results for "Englanti vieraana kielenä"
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Syntactic complexity in Finnish-background EFL learners’ writing at CEFR levels A1–B2
2022
Eurooppalaisen viitekehyksen (EVK) merkitys kielikoulutukselle on lisännyt tutkimusta sen taitotasojen kielellisistä piirteistä; tarkempi tieto näistä piirteistä auttaisi EVK:n soveltamista opetusmateriaalien, kurssien ja arviointin laatimiseen. Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin eroavatko EVK:n tasot toisistaan syntaksin kompleksisuuden perusteella. Suomalaiset 14- ja 17-vuotiaat englannin oppijat (N=379) kirjoittivat kolme kirjoitelmaa, jotka arvioitiin EVK:n taitotasoille. Arviointiaineisto tutkittiin monitahoisella Rasch-analyysillä ja tekstien piirteet selvitettiin automaattisilla analyysiohjelmilla. Tuloksien perusteella alimpia EVK-tasoja (A1–A2) erotti selvimmin toisistaan lauseiden ja T-yk…
The Influence of Goal Orientation, Past Language Studies, Overseas Experiences, and Gender Differences on Japanese EFL Learners’ Beliefs, Anxiety, an…
2012
The purpose of this study was to examine how Japanese students’ past language studies, in formal classroom settings during their elementary school years and their overseas experiences before entering university, affected their affective and strategic aspects of English learning in university level English classes within the framework of Goal Theory (Dweck 1986). The participants consisted of 556 EFL learners at two national universities, who were asked to report their age, gender and experience – or lack thereof – with English learning during elementary school, the period of overseas experiences, goal orientations, learning strategy preferences, beliefs, anxiety, and how much time they spen…
The English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey: Finland
2012
This paper reports on the findings of the English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey (EPTiES), concentrating on responses from EFL teachers working in Finland (n=103). The survey was designed to gain research-based information about the state of English pronunciation teaching in European teaching contexts, and it included questions related to teacher training, teaching materials and methods, assessment of pronunciation, status of pronunciation teaching, and pronunciation model, among other things. These issues are now addressed based on the data provided by the Finnish respondents. peerReviewed
ICAnDoiT: the impact of computerised adaptive corrective feedback on L2 English learners
2016
The present dissertation examines the impact of (computerised) adaptive corrective feedback, that is, feedback dynamically adapting to learners’ abilities, in English as a second/foreign language (L2) and explores the ways to maximise this impact. The study was inspired by the sociocultural perspective on development, which had implications for the interpretation of the results, including those obtained through statistical data analyses. The dissertation comprises five articles and a synthesis. In the first article, a positive effect of adaptive corrective feedback on the learners’ ability to formulate L2 English wh-questions is established. The second article explores how learners’ beliefs…
Clustering of vocabulary for different levels of Finnish learners of EFL : a content analysis on textbooks
2016
Sanaston oppiminen on keskeisimpiä edellytyksiä vieraan kielen oppimiselle, jonka vuoksi vieraiden kielten oppikirjojen tulisi panostaa erityisesti tapoihin, joilla uutta sanastoa opetetaan oppijoille. Semanttinen klusterointi, eli saman-kaltaisen semanttisen sisällön omaavien sanojen ryhmittäminen, on perinteisesti ollut pääasiallinen tapa ryhmittää sanoja oppikirjoissa. Viimeaikainen tutkimus (Finkbeiner & Nicol 2003; Schneider et al. 2002; Papathanasiou 2009; Erten & Tekin 2008; Wilcox & Medina 2013) kuitenkin näyttää osoittavan, että semanttinen klusterointi heikentäisi uusien sanojen oppimista ja vaikeuttaisi niiden muistamista. Semanttisen klusteroinnin sijaan ehdotetaan temaattista k…
Semantic versus thematic clustering of new lexical items : a textbook analysis
2015
Vocabulary acquisition is an essential part of learning a second language, yet textbook designers and language educators often have difficulties with creat-ing such vocabulary acquisition exercises and materials that would best en-hance the development of this crucial skill. There is indeed a growing body of evidence suggesting that semantic clustering of new lexical items impedes L2 vocabulary acquisition, but still semantic clustering is the prevalent meth-od used in contemporary EFL textbooks. This study focused on one EFL book series in particular, which can justifiably be seen as a representative of all contemporary beginner-level EFL textbooks in Finnish elementary schools. The conten…