Search results for "bilingual practice"

Two languages in the air: a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices

2020

This book article was originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1184615 Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish-Swedish and Russian-Finnish contexts), and Israel (an Arabic-Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We fou…

Creating a bilingual pre-school classroom: the multilayered discourses of a bilingual teacher

2015

Teachers have an agentive role as they interpret, evaluate and develop language policies and practices. In the current study we interviewed a bilingual pre-school teacher in Finland during the first year of implementing a new way of working bilingually with a class of monolingual children. Applying nexus analysis, we explored the teacher discourses on the trajectory of the development of the new approach; the concepts, places and people that were circulating in her reflections; and how these connected with larger societal discourses. The analysis showed that the teacher's new bilingual language practices demanded the renegotiation of previously held personal and professional beliefs. The te…

Two languages in the air : a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices

2016

Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish–Swedish and Russian–Finnish contexts) and Israel (an Arabic–Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We found that in each context the teachers reported modifications to an initial bilingual education model over time: from a strict separation of languages, to flexible b…

Bilingual practices in an online community : code-switching and language mixing in community and identity construction at www.godspeed.fi

2008

"Rokuja et pääse karkuun ilman jumpbootseja" : nonce borrowings in video gaming environment

2015

Videopelit ovat viime vuosina nousseet valtavirran vapaa-ajan aktiviteetiksi esimerkiksi television katselun ja urheilun ohelle. Videopelejä voi pelata monilla eri laitteilla kuten pelikonsoleilla, tietokoneilla sekä puhelimilla ja muilla kannettavilla laitteilla. Internet on myös mahdollistanut pelaamisen sekä kommunikoinnin pelaajien välillä paikasta riippumatta. Pelien ollessa valtaosin englanninkielisiä, pelaajat, jotka pelaavat yhdessä muiden kansalaisuuksien kanssa, valitsevat yleensä englannin yhteiseksi kommunikoinnin välineeksi. Englannin kielen asema sekä peleissä että tietokoneympäristössä yleensä on johtanut siihen, että esimerkiksi suomalaiset pelaajat käyttävät englanninkielis…