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Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective
2014
Part I Introducing Qualitative Research.- Sociological and Educational Roots of Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics.- Are the Only Things That Count the Things That Can Be Counted? On Modeling as a Cognitive Tool in the Field of Foreign Language Learning and Teaching.- Part II Qualitative Methods in Studying Second Language Acquisition.- Pronunciation Learning Strategy Chains: A Qualitative Approach.- Fostering Strategy Use in a Reading-Based Course in EFL Academic Context: Students' Perspectives.- Reflective Teaching in an English Primary Classroom.- Junior High School Learners' Ability to Reflect in the Process of Keeping a Diary in a Foreign Language.- Qualitative Evaluation of E…
Young People’s Emerging Multilingual Practices: Learning Language or Literacy, or Both?
2019
Research on language learning and research on literacy are typically seen as two separate strands of enquiry and thus the concepts of language and literacy have traditionally been kept apart. This is partly due to epistemological questions related to language and literacy. In this chapter, I will discuss these concepts in the context of multilingualism. Approaching multilingual language use from the perspective of literacy practices enables us to look beyond language to social practices and to examine the relationship between the concepts of language and literacy, literacy practices and language learning. Two data sets are used to illustrate how language, literacy, and language learning are…
Video calls as a nexus of practice in multilingual translocal families
2023
This study explores how daily video calls were used by two multilingual family constellations to keep in contact with members located elsewhere. A three-stage data collection and analysis protocol was developed together with the two main participants, two single mothers each with a 4-year-old child. The results show that active collaboration among all members of the family was needed to get the activity going. The families employed a de facto family language policy where the focus was on successful communication and nurturing emotional bonds rather than developing language skills. At the same time, the regular video calls added a significant amount of time spent together and increased the a…
Kielten ja kulttuurien moninaisuutta eteläisellä Pohjanmaalla
2018
Kirja-arvio teoksesta: Mattila, Markku & Anglé, Jaana 2017: Vieraskieliset lapset eteläisellä Pohjanmaalla. Julkaisuja 9. Turku: Siirtolaisuusinstituutti. nonPeerReviewed
Multilingualism, Lingua Franca or What?
2017
For this 10th anniversary issue we are very fortunate to have two extremely engaging conversations. They are both frank discussions on the state of the art of translation and its relevance today. We open with Henry Liu, recently President of the International Federation of Translators and close with a conversation between renowned scholars Susan Bassnett and Anthony Pym, who muse - over a glass or two - about the monster that is called ‘translation’.
"Somers Town". Multilingual settings explored in audiovisual translation contexts
2018
In the last decades advances in digital communication and audiovisual translation studies have significantly transformed the ways by which texts and people travel across linguistic, spatial and temporal boundaries. This is particularly evident in the everchanging landscape of audiovisual translation as a consequence of the digital revolution that has contributed to the creation of new forms of adaptation and proliferation of mediated and non-mediated products. The case of multilingual discourse applied to contemporary diasporic and migrant films, in which sociolinguistics intervenes as a methodological approach to the translation of marginal voices, has gained scholarly attention as a resul…
The patterned ways of interlinking linguistic and multimodal elements in visually oriented communities
2019
This paper attends to languaging in the context of visually oriented communities of sign language users through the concept of chaining. I define chaining as the patterned, routine ways of interlin...
"What is the color of English?" : representation of English in the language portraits of Sámi children
2010
Tutkimus on osa Jyväskylän yliopiston kielten laitoksen Pohjoinen monikielisyys - hanketta, jonka tavoitteena on tutkia monikielisyyttä Pohjoiskalotin alueella. Projektissa hyödynnetään sosiolingvistiikkaa, kriittistä diskurs-sintutkimusta ja etnografiaa. Tässä tutkimuksessa esiin nousevat mm. kielentäminen, heteroglossia ja kieli-politiikka. Lähtökohtana ovat henkilökohtaiset kielikokemukset, resurssit ja repertuaarit, ja niiden tutkiminen multimodaalisen aineiston avulla. Erityisen kiinnostuksen kohteena on yksittäisen kielen, englannin, esiin-tyminen aineistossa. Vastaavaa näkökulmaa samantyyppiseen aineistoon ei ole aiemmin hyödynnetty. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostuu neljäntoista 6-12 vuo…
”Do you have a language of emotions?” : early multilinguals' perceptions of emotional weight in their languages
2017
Monikielisyys on tänä päivänä hyvin yleinen ilmiö, jota on tutkittu monista näkökulmista. Yksi suosittu aihe on monikielisten henkilöiden omiin kieliinsä yhdistämät tunnemerkitykset, eli kuinka jotkut kielet voidaan kokea tunnetasolla painoltaan tai merkitykseltään voimakkaampina kuin toiset. Tämä tunneherkkyys on yleisesti ottaen vahvin henkilön äidinkielessä, mutta niille puhujille, joilla ei ole yhtä selvää äidinkieltä, tilanne on toinen. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena oli selvittää, kokevatko tällaiset hyvin varhaiset monikieliset puhujat, että jokin heidän kielistään on selvästi emotionaalisemmalta painoarvoltaan selkeämpi kuin muut, tai onko heillä kieli, jonka voisi luokitella tunteide…
Languages as objects of learning: language learning as a case of multilingualism
2011
This paper considers multilingualism from the point of view of language learning and teaching. We discuss the ‘monological’ thinking in linguistics and in the research of language learning and teaching and argue that the monological stand, more often than not, also embeds a monolingual bias. As an alternative to monologism, we discuss dialogical notion of language and argue that this inherently involves a multilingual stand. peerReviewed