Search results for "kieli"

Discriminatory Brain Processes of Native and Foreign Language in Children with and without Reading Difficulties

2022

The association between impaired speech perception and reading difficulty has been well established in native language processing, as can be observed from brain activity. However, there has been scarce investigation of whether this association extends to brain activity during foreign language processing. The relationship between reading skills and neuronal speech representation of foreign language remains unclear. In the present study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) with high-density EEG to investigate this question. Eleven- to 13-year-old children typically developed (CTR) or with reading difficulties (RD) were tested via a passive auditory oddball paradigm containing native (Finn…

Policy is what happens while you’re busy doing something else: introduction to special issue on “language” indexing higher education policy

2016

Traditionally, language has had three functions in higher education. It has been seen as a medium of teaching; as a means of archiving knowledge in different text depositories like books and libraries; and as an object of theoretical study (Brumfit 2004, 164). Brumfit’s typology acknowledges the fact that language somehow crosses the everyday experience of everyone working, studying or otherwise engaged at universities—in other words, in knowledge production. In recent years, however, two major trends in higher education policies have challenged Brumfit’s classification and called for attention to language in a new way: internationalization and globalization policies on the one hand, and kn…

Sociolinguistic upsets and people of color in social media performances

2022

Abstract Particularly since the refugee “reception crisis” in 2015, Finland has started transforming into a more diverse and multicultural society. These societal changes have also been accompanied by sociolinguistic change, as well as language ideological debates and tensions, often manifesting in explicitly racist and xenophobic bursts of upset. In this article, our focus is on social media as a space where such societal and sociolinguistic upsets are articulated and re-worked. Drawing on recent sociolinguistic and discourse analytic work on transformative and critical popular cultural practices in social media, and studies on rap and belonging, we discuss how, in a mediatized society suc…

Developments in language education : a memorial volume in honour of Sauli Takala

2019

A Contrastive Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems for Finnish

2019

Aiempi saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämistä käsittelevä työ, kuten monet muut luonnollisen kielen käsittelyyn liittyvät tehtävät, on enimmäkseen keskittynyt englannin kieleen. Vaikka hieman työtä on tehty myös muilla kielillä, mukaan lukien uralilaiset kielet, vertailevaa arviointia suomen kielen saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämisestä ei ole tähän mennessä julkaistu huolimatta siitä, että tarvittavat leksikaaliset resurssit, erityisesti FinnWordNet, ovat jo pitkään olleet saatavilla. Tämä työ pyrkii korjaamaan tilanteen. Se tarjoaa tuloksia merkittävimpiä lähestymistapoja saneiden alamerkitysten yksiselitteistämiseen edustavista ohjelmista, sisältäen joitakin parhaiten engla…

Ammatillinen koulutus - kielitietoisuuteen heräämässä

2019

Kieli objektina : miten lapset mieltävät kielen

2003

In this article, children’s views to language are discussed. The data comes from a project called Situated metalinguistic awareness and foreign language learning. It is argued that in children’s conceptualizations, the knowledge and skills that are required at school are separate from the skills of everyday life. For example, the English they learn in everyday life - “Play Station English” - is not identified with the “Classroom English”. It is suggested that the gap between school and everyday life, or, between different school subjects dealing with language (mother tongue and foreign languages) should be better bridged. peerReviewed

Identity and Agency Development in a CLIL-based Teacher Education Program

2020

A consensus exists in applied linguistics that agency and identity are key concepts in understanding teacher development. Although a large body of research has focused on studying language teacher and learner identity and agency separately, less attention has been paid to the relationship of these concepts in individual development. In this contribution, we use an ecological perspective to explore and illustrate the interplay between and development of agency and identity. The participants in the study were primary school teacher students specializing in foreign language pedagogy for younger learners and studying in a CLIL-based teacher education program. The qualitative data were collected…

Conceptualising Assessment and Learning in the CLIL Context. An Introduction

2020

Multiple CLIL writers (e.g. Ball et al. 2015) have emphasised the significant role of assessment in promoting learning in CLIL classrooms, where there is a dual focus on learning content and language (Genesee and Hamayan 2016). Because of this dual focus, the assessment process in CLIL becomes more complex. Assessment in CLIL should provide insights into learner content and linguistic knowledge as well as strategies used to learn both content and language in order to identify student progress and needs. This should inform both teachers and students about how to enhance learning. Despite excellent overviews, guidelines, and practical activities in CLIL assessment (Lin 2016; Mehisto and Ting …

Läpileikkaus Suomen kielelliseen moninaisuuteen kielielämäkertojen kautta

2022

Suomalaisten kielellistä elämää. Sata suomalaista kielellistä elämäkertaa -hankkeen satoa. (2020). Toimittanut Kaarina Hippi, Hanna Lappalainen ja Pirkko Nuolijärvi. Helsinki: SKS. 387 s. ISBN 978-951-858-247-5