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Denkstil und Sprache/n in den Wissenschaften. Mit Beispielen aus der Medizin
2011
Scientific research is often understood as an activity or process simultaneously focused on seeking and explaining universal laws of nature. This is especially true in the STEM fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. These universal laws of nature are widely understood as independent from human beings and individual languages. Because of this, the use of English as a lingua franca is often assumed as beneficial for the internationalisation and globalisation of academic life. The use of different languages is more widely accepted in social sciences, humanities and arts because their interest does not focus on universal laws of nature but on societal phenomena. In these disciplin…
Conditions of commodification : Russian as a transient commodity in an Arctic tourism resort
2022
Abstract Based on an ethnography incorporating interview, linguistic landscape and observational data, this research illustrates how temporary linguistic value is negotiated and how an Arctic tourism destination is made fit for consumption for a specific audience. Set within a tourism resort in the Finnish Arctic during two weeks in Winter when the region habitually receives a large influx of Russian-speaking visitors, we illustrate how Russian is conceptualized as a means of economic practice by stakeholders in the local tourism industry. While some offer services specifically for a Russian-speaking audience as part of a short-term high-risk/high-reward investment, others regard Russian as…
Sisäkorvaistutetta käyttävien lasten viittomakielen ja puhutun kielen omaksuminen
2013
Artikkeli kasittelee suomalaisen viittomakielen ja suomen kielen kehitysta kuudella kuurolla sisakorvaistutetta kayttavalla lapsella. Lasten kuulevat vanhemmat alkoivat opiskella ja kayttaa viittomakielta lastensa kanssa kuulovammadiagnoosin selvittya. Aineisto on keratty vuosina 2005 ja 2006 kuvanauhoittamalla lapsen ja viittomakielisen aikuisen seka lapsen ja suomenkielisen aikuisen vuorovaikutustilanteita. Lasten iat vaihtelivat 2;9 vuodesta 7;6 vuoteen tutkimuksen alussa. Taustatietoa saatiin haastattelemalla vanhempia. Kieliaineistoista analysoitiin molempien kielien sanastoa, ilmausten pituutta, nominaalien ja verbaalien taivutusta, artikulaatiota, aikuisen puheen/viittomisen ymmartam…
Towards more learning-centred English-medium education: promoting the combination of backward design and community of practice in teacher training
2022
Purpose Teaching in English-medium education (EME) requires mastery of content and ability to teach in a multilingual setting, but also pedagogical expertise and didactic agility. However, there is an apparent lack of proper training of EME teachers, who are typically experts of their field, but not necessarily equipped to design and implement EME. Moreover, there is still an evident gap with respect to understanding how EME teachers turn curricula into actual teaching and students’ learning. By addressing this gap, the present study provides recommendations for EME teacher training. Approach Finland, with its long EME traditions, was the present study’s context. Data saturation, i.e. adequ…
Clausal coordination in Finnish Sign Language
2016
This paper deals with the coordination of clauses in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Building on conversational data, the paper first shows that linking in conjunctive coordination in FinSL is primarily asyndetic, whereas in adversative and disjunctive coordination FinSL prefers syndetic linking. Secondly, the paper investigates the nonmanual prosody of coordination: nonmanual activity is shown both to mark the juncture of the coordinand clauses and to draw their contours. Finally, the paper addresses certain forms of clausal coordination in FinSL that are sign language-specific. It is suggested that the sign language-specific properties of coordination are caused both by the fact that signe…
Explaining Hooke’s Law : Definitional Practices in a CLIL Physics Classroom
2016
This article examines how a teacher in a Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) program engages in various definitional practices during a plenary episode in a physics class taught in English in Finland. The episode focuses on explaining Hooke’s law, which involves defining its key concepts and their relations as instructable matters. Using multimodal conversation analysis, the article shows how the teacher accomplishes definitions and definition-related actions through talk and a range of embodied and material resources. The different configurations of resources are coordinated to elucidate the key concepts, to contextualize them in relation to the larger activity, and to situate …
L2 English vocabulary breadth and knowledge of derivational morphology : One or two constructs?
2022
Derivational morphology (DM) and how it can be assessed have been investigated relatively rarely in language learning and testing research. The goal of this study is to add to the understanding of the nature of DM knowledge, exploring whether and how it is separable from vocabulary breadth. Eight L2 (second or foreign language) English DM knowledge measures and three measures of the size of the English vocabulary were administered to 120 learners. We conducted two confirmatory factor analyses, one with one underlying factor and the other treating vocabulary breadth and DM as separate. As neither model had a satisfactory fit without introducing a residual covariance to the two-factor model,…
Variaatio oppimisen osoittajana ja ohjaajana
2021
Arvioitu teos:
 Sirkku Lesonen: Valuing variability. Dynamic usage-based principles in the L2 development of four Finnish language learners. Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics 184. Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 2020. 310 s. isbn 9789403426747. Saatavilla verkossa osoitteessa http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-94-034-2675-4.
Language, (em)power(ment) and affective capitalism : the case of an entrepreneurship workshop for refugees in Germany
2022
Abstract This paper seeks to advance research on the nexus of language, work-related training and affective capitalism by focusing on an entrepreneurship workshop organized for newly arrived refugees in Germany. Despite the occupational orientation, the primary objective of the workshop was not establishing a business but “empowering” the participants by guiding them to adopt “an entrepreneurial mindset”. To delve deeper into this ‘will to empower’, the study brings together the perspectives of governmentality studies, ethnography, discourse studies and affect studies. To investigate in more detail the evocation of the ‘entrepreneurial mindset’, the study draws on ethnographic data collecte…