Search results for "Swedish"

Becoming a Language Teacher: A dream come true or a source of anxiety?

2015

In this qualitative study the author examined personal narratives written by 14 Finnish speaking student teachers of Swedish, in order to find out what they tell about their thoughts and feelings concerning their future work as language teachers. The following three themes were in focus: firstly, what university students tell about their reasons for wanting to become teachers in the first place; secondly, what kinds of worries concerning their future work they mention in their narratives; and thirdly, how student teachers could be supported during transition from teacher education to teaching. According to the study, students choose teaching for reasons that are related to: (a) teacher iden…

Upper secondary school students as speakers of English and Swedish : Speaking outside the school and language self

2010

 Suullinen kielitaito on tärkeää nykypäivän kansainvälisessä maailmassa. Tämän kandidaatin tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää, miten abiturientit puhuvat englantia ja ruotsia koulun ulkopuolella, ja kuinka he näkevät itsensä näiden kielten puhujina. Tutkielman viitekehys muodostui hyvän suullisen kielitaidon määrittelystä kommunikatiivisen kompetenssin käsitteen avulla, kieliminä-käsitteen kuvailusta sekä aiemmista tutkimuksista, joissa on selvitty suomalaisten englannin ja ruotsin puhumista. Tutkimusaihe on ajankohtainen, koska lukioihin on tulossa uusi suullisen kielitaidon kurssi syksyllä 2010. Aineisto kerättiin kyselylomakkeen avulla. Kyselyyn vastasi 30 abiturienttia jyväskyläläis…

Bryter finlandssvenskarna när de talar finska?

2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate if fluently bilingual Finland-Swedish speakers have an accent in their Finnish, and whether this possible accent can be heard by native Finnish listeners. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate what acoustical features characterize a possible accent in the Finnish spoken by Finland-Swedish speakers. To answer these questions two studies were carried out: a listening test with 55 native Finnish listeners who were asked to categorize 20 speakers as native or nonnative speakers of Finnish, and if the speakers were regarded as non-native, how strong the speaker’s accent was: weak, moderate, or strong. The 20 speakers included native Finnish informan…

Återbesök till feedback : en fallstudie av fokus och form på webbkursen Hjälpis

2017

Tämän maisterintutkielman tutkimuskohteena on palaute Jyväskylän yliopiston Kielikeskuksen valinnaisella ruotsin Hjälpis-verkkokurssilla. Tutkintovaatimuksiin pakollisena kuuluvan toisen kotimaisen kielen, ruotsin taitojen osoittamisen KORU-arviointikriteerien B1-tasolla on aikaisemmissa tutkimuksissa arvioitu olevan haaste riittämättömien taitojen takia jopa puolelle yliopisto-opiskelijoista. Koulutusasteelta toiselle siirryttäessä minimivaatimustaso on korkeampi eikä nivelly, jos opiskelijat ovat selvinneet kursseista lukiossa vain oppimäärän vähimmäistavoitteet saavuttaen. Hjälpis-kurssilla tätä puutteellisen osaamistason ja vaatimusten välistä eroa pyritään kaventamaan itseohjautuvuudel…

Assessment of Written Proficiency: Finnish-speaking University Students Writing in Swedish

2012

Dead wood profile of a semi-natural boreal forest – implications for sampling

2019

Dead wood profile of a forest is a useful tool for describing forest characteristics and assessing forest disturbance history. Nevertheless, there are few studies on dead wood profiles, including both coarse and fine dead wood, and on the effect of sampling intensity on the dead wood estimates. In a semi-natural boreal forest, we measured every dead wood item over 2 cm in diameter from 80 study plots. From eight plots, we further recorded dead wood items below 2 cm in diameter. Based on these data we constructed the full dead wood profile, i.e. the overall number of dead wood items and their distribution among different tree species, volumes of different size and decay stage categories. We …

Language ideologies about learning historical minority languages : Hungarian in Romania and Swedish in Finland

2015

Lexical Mixing in a Conversation between Old Helsinki Slang Speakers

2018

In this article, a conversation between Old Helsinki Slang (OHS) speakers recorded in 1965 is examined. A notable feature of OHS is the heavy use of Swedish-based or otherwise un-Finnish words although it mostly follows the grammar of colloquial Finnish. e sample that is analyzed consists of free speech, and it lasts 65 minutes. If uncertain items are taken into account, then the proportion of borrowed lexical items in the data is 29–32%. Function and content words in OHS di er markedly in their etymological origin as the function words are overwhelmingly Finnish. Although OHS has some phonological and phonotactical features that are strikingly “un-Finnish,” it is apparent that these featur…

UTTAL AV S2-FINSKA MED FOKUS PÅ SVENSKSPRÅKIGA TALARE

2016

I undersökningen analyseras 11 inföddliknande S2-talares uttal av finska. Sex av talarna har finlandssvenska som S1, fem av talarna har sverigesvenska, tyska, franska, ryska resp. spanska som S1. Talarnas uttal undersöktes dels genom ett test med finskspråkiga lyssnare (n=93), dels genom att S2-talarnas uttal jämfördes akustiskt med uttalet hos talare med finska som S1. Vidare jämfördes de finlandssvenska talarnas uttal av finska och svenska. Resultaten visar att finlandssvenska talare skiljer sig som grupp från infödda finskspråkiga talare och från talare med ett annat S1 än finlandssvenska. De flesta finlandssvenskar bröt mycket svagt. Stavelselängderna och intonationen i långa ord orsaka…

Teaching classic put to the test: Do tongue twisters work for L2 pronunciation?

2023

Tongue twisters are a controversial pronunciation teaching classic. Whereas some see tongue twisters difficult and frustrating for learners, others find them fun and motivating. This study was inspired by these opposing views and the fact that previous studies have failed to offer convincing proof of whether this technique works for L2 pronunciation learning. This study approaches the question with a teaching experiment. Participants were 28 learners of L2 Swedish. Half of them trained with tongue twisters and half with authentic sentences. Training focussed on two sounds typically difficult for the learners, who were tested before and after the training period. Further, the participants we…