Search results for "Language policy"
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Language-aware operational culture : Developing in-service training for early childhood education and care
2020
This study examines how practitioners of minority-medium Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Finland reflect on language awareness (LA) in their professional learning communities (PLCs). The study is conducted within in-service training for ECEC practitioners and it also highlights how these practitioner reflections can be of use and support developing future in-service training within the action research framework. The data include nine group discussions on a reflection task, with 41 primary participants and 165 secondary participants from each primary participant’s respective PLC. As a starting point, the researchertrainers identified six language-policy themes on LA in national …
Constructing family language policy : a case-study on bilingual family language policy
2012
Tutkielman tarkoituksena oli tarkastella kaksikielisten perheiden kielipolitiikkaan vaikuttavia tekijöitä. Tiedetään, että kaksikielisten perheiden vanhempien kielikäytänteillä on suuri vaikutus lapsen kielelliselle kehitykselle; useat tutkimukset ovat osoittaneet, että perheen kielipolitiikalla on merkittävä vaikutus siihen, tuleeko lapsesta kaksikielinen vai ei. Sen vuoksi on mielekästä tutkia millaisia ratkaisuja kaksikieliset perheet tekevät kielikäytänteidensä suhteen, ja mitkä tekijät ovat olleet vaikuttamassa näihin ratkaisuihin. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena oli omalta osaltaan olla lisäämässä tietämystä näistä tekijöistä. Vaikka kaksikielisistä perheistä on olemassa paljon tutkimust…
Tulkošanas stratēģijas un sinhronā tulkošana: Eiropas Savienības institucionālais diskurss
2019
Lai skaidri nodotu runātāja precīzu vēstījumu, mērķa sasniegšanai var pielietot dažādas mutiskās tulkošanas stratēģijas un tehnikas. Ņemot vērā mutiskās tulkošanas veidu un režīmu dažādību, mutiskās tulkošanas stratēģijas un tehnikas, kas var rādīt izaicinājumus jaunajiem tulkiem, maģistra darbā tiek pētīta mutiskā tulkošana un saistītie pamatjēdzieni, mutiskās tulkošanas stratēģijas un tehnikas, ko pielieto sinhronajā tulkošanā. Darbā tiek arī identificētas un no jaunā tulka perspektīvas analizētas mutiskās tulkošanas stratēģijas un tehnikas, kas izmantotas Eiropas Savienības iestāžu līmenī. Tas tiek darīts, analizējot izvēlēto teorētisko materiālu, meta tekstus par mutisko tulkošanu un ve…
Using language to help people, or using people to help language? A capabilities framework of language policy
2023
Language policy is a hugely diverse field, united only by the intent to influence language use in some way. Much early research in the field asserted that language policy had an emancipatory drive, to empower downtrodden minorities against the cruelty or indifference of majoritarian politics. But over the years, critical accounts have increasingly questioned who precisely benefits from promoting minoritized languages. Indeed, can the language itself, valorized as an emblem of heritage, sometimes become invested with its own separate value? Can that value even outweigh concerns over improving people's prospects and capabilities? In what follows, I compare that balance between people's capabi…
”Englanti jyrää” : kieltenopettajien keinoja ja ehdotuksia kielivalintojen monipuolistamiseksi
2021
Suomen kouluissa opiskellaan yhä vähemmän ja yhä harvempia vieraita kieliä. Valinnaisten kielten opiskelun suosio on laskenut, ja kielitaito on vaarassa jäädä pelkän englannin varaan. Erilaisia toimenpiteitä, kuten kielen opetuksen varhentaminen, on jo tehty. Ne eivät kuitenkaan ole juurikaan lisänneet muiden vieraiden kielten opiskelun suosiota, vaan valtaosa oppilaista ja opiskelijoista opiskelee edelleen vain englantia kotimaisten kielten lisäksi. Kysyimme kieltenopettajilta, millaisia keinoja eri kouluasteilla on jo ollut käytössä valintojen monipuolistamiseksi sekä millaisilla konkreettisilla keinoilla kielivalintoja vielä voitaisiin monipuolistaa. Aineisto on kerätty tammi-helmikuussa…
Language policy, professional development and sustainability of multilingual approaches
2020
Policies and professional development which focusses on pedagogical skills, beliefs, and agency are essential to ensure the sustainability of multilingual teaching approaches. This chapter begins with an overview of research studies on language policies, teacher agency and beliefs with a focus on multilingual settings. The intertwining of policy and teaching practice is then illustrated by means of the Finnish case, demonstrating how recent ECEC policies advocating diversity and plurilingualism have gradually changed teacher beliefs. The second part of the chapter focuses on professional development (PD) in so far as it is able to support teachers in implementing policies, changing pedagogi…
Kirja-arvio: Hanna Lappalainen–Marja-Leena Sorjonen–Maria Vilkuna (toim.): Kielellä on merkitystä. Näkökulmia kielipolitiikkaan
2010
The power of language policy : the legal recognition of sign languages and the aspirations of deaf communities
2016
This thesis explores Sign Language Peoples’ aspirations for the legal recognition of sign languages, with specific focus on Finland and Scotland. It highlights the timely need to strengthen (in practice) and scrutinize (academically) the legal measures that have been achieved as well as their implementation – and to measure all this against the challenges of endangerment and sustaining vitality. The theoretical framework for this study is centred in language policy and planning and political theory. The research methodology draws on principles of the ethnography of language policy and uses two traditional qualitative research methods, that is, interviews and participant observation, plus de…
Contesting language policy for asylum seekers in the Northern periphery: the story of Tailor F
2020
AbstractThis article is about navigating asylum, employment and language policy in a new country as an asylum seeker. Through the story of one individual, we show that profound inequalities are exacerbated when forced migrants are limited in their choice of language they might study or use. The individual is Tailor F, an Iraqi man seeking asylum, and the country is Finland, officially bilingual, with a majority language (Finnish) and a minority language (Swedish). Finland’s official bilingualism does not extend evenly to language education provided for asylum seekers, who are taught Finnish regardless of the region where they are placed. Upon arrival, Tailor F was housed in a reception cent…
Choosing an A2-language and language education from teachers’ point of view
2015
Language education policy consists of multiple levels, all the way from the European Union to teachers in local schools. Bearing in mind that even teachers have a role to play in language education policy our bachelor’s thesis aimed to create an overall picture of what knowledge do primary school teachers and headmasters in the Jyväskylä area possess relating language education matters and more specifically the A2-language. The study also examined the situations in which the teachers would or would not recommend the A2-language to a pupil. How the teachers act in the process of choosing the A2-language was also the focus of this study. This article affords a glance to our research and its r…