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The role of pause location in perceived fluency and proficiency in L2 Finnish

2022

Fluency is a commonly used descriptor of second language (L2) speaking skills. Unplanned and too frequent pauses, hesitations, and repetitions disrupt the flow of speech and can cause temporal irregularities at all levels of speech hierarchy, from syllable rate to phrasing. However, most studies that attempt to quantify fluency disregard pause locations. The current study investigates, whether and which pause locations affect the perceived fluency and proficiency in L2 Finnish. Several pause parameters were computed from spontaneous L2 Finnish speech samples. Pause locations were investigated with regards to clauses and phrases as well as incomplete words. The effect of pause locations to h…

Developing Automated Feedback on Spoken Performance : Exploring the Functioning of Five Analytic Rating Scales Using Many-facet Rasch Measurement

2022

In this study, we used the Many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM) to explore the quality of ratings as well as the functioning of five analytic rating scales developed for automated assessment of L2 speech. This study is part of a multidisciplinary research project that develops automatic speech recognition (ASR), automated scoring and automated feedback for L2 Finnish and Swedish. The data include the analytic ratings (task completion, fluency, pronunciation, range, accuracy) gathered from human raters (n=14) who assessed L2 Finnish learners’ (n=64) speech samples using Moodle. The four-facet Rasch analysis showed that the raters performed and the rating scales functioned well, although task …

Opettajan korjaava palaute suomi toisena kielenä -opetuksessa

2008

Sananselittäminen historian valmistavan kurssin oppitunneilla

2006

A kulturális különbségek jelentősége a magyar nyelv tanításában

2020

Diplomatic and cultural ties between South Korea and Hungary were established more than 25 years ago. In 1988, the Department of Hungarian Studies was created at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Since its creation, this major workshop of Hungarian studies has become one of the most important supporters and symbols of friendly relations between the two countries. In 2014, I became a member of this prominent department, where I teach Hungarian language and culture in the BA programme. Although I represent and teach my own culture and language, I have realized that it is essential to advance my knowledge in Korean culture, education and language as well. During the past years, I needed to…

Vocabulary learning strategies used by upper secondary school students studying English as a second language

2008

Varhaiskasvattajien käsityksiä suomi toisena kielenä -opetuksesta ja itsestään sen toteuttajana

2017

Tutkimus tarkastelee suomi toisena kielenä -opetusta varhaiskasvatusympäristössä. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää, millaisena S2-opetus ja sen toteuttaminen nähdään sekä millaista ammatillista osaamista ja pätevyyttä opetuksen toteuttamiseen liitetään. Tutkimus toteutettiin keskisuuressa Etelä-Suomen kaupungissa. Tutkimuskohteina oli kolme kunnallista päiväkotia, joissa jokaisessa oli S2-opetuksen alaisuudessa olevia lapsia. Yhteensä tutkimukseen osallistui kuusi varhaiskasvattajaa ja aineisto kerättiin haastattelemalla. Haastattelu toteutettiin parihaastatteluna teemahaastattelun muodossa. Aineiston analysoinnissa käytettiin pääasiassa aineistolähtöistä analyysia sekä osittain teoria…

Making Sense of Interactional Trouble Through Mobile-Supported Sharing Activities

2019

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How Wild Can It Get? Managing Language Learning Tasks in Real Life Service Encounters

2019

This chapter explores how experientially based pedagogical activities that involve participation in real life service encounters provide occasions for developing L2 interactional competence. The data comprises novice L2 students’ self-recorded interactions in service settings and videorecordings of classroom planning activities and de-briefing discussions, where the students reflect on their experiences. The analysis traces what kinds of occasions for learning arise as the students move between the classroom and the real-world service settings. The findings show that the different phases of the task complement each other in supporting the development of interactional competence. The prepara…

Dialogical view on learner agency of immigrant pupils : a case study of the learners of Finnish as L2

2022

This study explores the dialogical nature of agency when two immigrant pupils, who are learning Finnish as their new target language, are authoring their selves. Bakhtin’s dialogism was the inspiration for this examination of the discourses that surround the L2 pupils’ agency and how they respond to discourses through their agency. Ethnographically oriented data collection included classroom observations, the pupils’ portfolios, and interviews with the pupils (as main participants) and meaningful adults. These data yielded a set of narratives from multiple voices. The results show that the pupils negotiate more subjective meanings of their selves, and re-color them with their internal goals…