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Presentation of the American culture in EFL textbooks : an analysis of the cultural content of Finnish EFL textbooks for secondary and upper secondar…
2011
Cultural Identity in Everyday Interactions at Work: Highly Skilled Female Russian Professionals in Finland
2013
The dominant research strands into social interaction in culturally diverse workplaces have focused on issues of organizational efficiency and discrimination, and they have treated cultural identity as static, monolithic, and universally shared. This study aims to problematize this view. It is argued that our understanding of cultural workplace diversity could be extended through the integration of interpretive and critical interpersonal communication theorizing on cultural identity as dynamic and processual, constructed between and among people in everyday workplace interactions and in relation to larger social, political, and historical forces. This argument is illustrated by an analysis …
Presentation of English-speaking cultures : upper secondary school textbooks of English in the 1980s and in the 2010s
2012
Englanti on yksi maailman levinneimmistä kielistä ja sitä puhutaan sekä äidinkielenä että vielä useammin toisena tai vieraana kielenä. Tämän moninaisuuden vuoksi on myös monia englanninkielisiä kulttuureja. Näistä tunnetuimpia ovat brittiläinen ja pohjoisamerikkalainen kulttuuri, jotka ovat myös hyvin esillä jokapäiväisessä elämässämme muun muassa television ja musiikin kautta. Tekstikirjoilla on tärkeä osa kielten opetuksessa ja niiden olisi hyvä heijastaa kohdekielten ja -kulttuurien todellista tilannetta maailmalla. Aikaisemmat tutkimukset kulttuurista kielten opetuksessa ovat nostaneet esille joitakin puutteita tekstikirjoissa. Ensinnäkin kirjat sisältävät usein stereotypioita, ja toise…
Exploring intercultural competency growth by non-mobile university students through interaction with dissimilar others : internationalizing at home t…
2008
“I felt a bit nervous” : Virtual Exchange as an emotional journey
2021
Virtual Exchange is a collective term for a set of collaborative online learning practices that cut across institutional, cultural, and international borders. Moving outside their learning environments, the participants engage in project work with foreign peers. The teams have to work across time zones, use foreign languages, manage cultural differences and apply digital tools for communication and collaboration. The virtual projects enhance the development of transversal work/life skills, which are an asset in today’s global labour market. The aim of the present study is to explore the emotional trajectory of Virtual Exchange based on the students’ e-portfolios. By analysing the self-evalu…