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Unelmia hyvästä vuorovaikutuksesta ja resurssipulan pelkoa
2023
Kolmen yliopiston yhteisessä tutkimushankkeessa selvitetään ruotsinopettajaksi ja kielikylpyopettajaksi opiskelevien ajatuksia tulevaisuudesta kielen ammattilaisena. nonPeerReviewed
Language teacher identities as socio-politically situated construction : Finnish and Brazilian student teachers’ visualisations of their professional…
2021
The process of envisioning the future is central to teachers’ identity construction, but different environments create distinct sociocultural conditions for the process. This qualitative study drawing on visual-textual methods compares Finnish and Brazilian student teachers’ desired and feared professional futures. Two different perspectives on future identities were detected: a desire for status and a desire for meaningfulness. The results revealed the radically different social status of teaching in the two countries and the role this played in the envisioned identities. The study highlights the importance of awareness of the socio-political nature of identity construction in developing t…
Parental Perceptions of the Ideal Foreign Language Teacher : Voices from Eight Countries
2020
Early language education has become a global trend as parents from around the world increasingly enroll their children in language classes at preschool or pre-preschool ages. The younger the FL learners are, the greater the parents’ role in their children’s learning process – and the more they may be motivated to be involved in their children’s schoolwork, learning aims, and the way they are being instructed. But what do they want from FL teachers when their children are just beginning their language studies? This topic brought together 14 students from different parts of the world. Students from Canada, China, Colombia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and Vietnam enrolled in the…
Opettajaverkostot ja hankkeet ammattikorkeakoulujen kielten ja viestinnän opetuksen pedagogisen kehittämisen moottoreina
2019
”Unelmieni oppitunti” englannin kielen opettajakoulutettavien visualisoimana
2017
This study views the motivation of future teachers from quite a novel perspective: in terms of vision or envisioning. The study was carried out with student teachers of English (n=31) enrolled on a MA degree programme at a university in Finland. They were asked to envision an English class of their dreams after graduating as qualified teachers. The students produced a picture and were asked to comment on it briefly and provide some further details concerning the class. The task was carried out as part of one of the first professionally oriented courses in the students’ university studies. The pictures complemented with commentaries, or pools of multimodal data, were subjected to qualitative…