Search results for "kieltenopettajat"

Being a good neighbour: developing intercultural understanding through critical dialogue between an Australian and Finnish cross-case study

2020

Language educators in Australia and Finland are expected to foster intercultural understanding within foreign language education. This paper presents findings from a qualitative case study focusing on theoretical and practical intercultural understanding in secondary school language education. The data for this study includes lesson observations as well as student and teachers interviews collected in two secondary schools in Australia and Finland. The findings demonstrate the complex resources teachers and students draw on to develop and share intercultural understanding. The discussion addresses the value of different perspectives and the need for a new metaphor to conceptualise intercultu…

Teachers’ Emotions and Beliefs in Second Language Teaching : Implications for Teacher Education

2018

Studies on language teacher beliefs have long indicated that in order to better understand teacher beliefs, we need to look at their connections with emotions (Borg 2006). Researchers in fields such as social psychology (Frijda et al. 2000) and education (Rosiek 2003; Gill and Hardin 2014) have pointed out how emotions shape and are shaped by beliefs. These suggest also that emotions and beliefs are fundamentally interconnected in individuals’ decision-making processes, with emotions providing the necessary impetus for change and beliefs deciding the course of actions. In order to have a complete view of second language teachers’ beliefs, it is crucial to have a clear understanding of these…

Status versus nature of work : pre-service language teachers envisioning their future profession

2020

Considering the central role of identity in understanding teacher development, this paper addresses the ways in which pre-service language teachers envision their identities as future professionals. The paper is based on a qualitative study of 61 students’ visualisations of their future work during their first semester in language teacher education. The visualisations and accompanying descriptive texts were analysed using the principles of qualitative content analysis. In the analysis, two different ways of perceiving future professions, and thereby identities as professionals, were identified. The first was a nature-oriented perspective that focused on desired characteristics of the profes…

Teachers negotiating multilingualism in the EFL classroom

2021

Tässä artikkelissa tutkimme suomalaisten englanninopettajien käsityksiä maahanmuuttajaoppilaista, joilla on monikielinen tausta, vieraan kielen luokkahuoneessa. Aiemmat tutkimukset monikielisistä oppijoista ovat keskittyneet toisen kielen oppimiseen tai oppijan äidinkieleen. Tässä tutkimuksessa keskitymme englantiin vieraana kielenä, sillä maailma on aiempaa monikielisempi ja liikkuvuus yleisempää kuin ennen. Aineistona on englannin opettajien haastattelut (n=7), joissa he pohtivat kokemuksiaan maahanmuuttajaoppilaista vieraan kielen oppitunnilla. Analyysimenetelmänä oli laadullinen sisällönanalyysi. Tulokset osoittavat, että osallistujat eivät olleet pohtineet monikielisyyttä englannin opp…

This can be made more student-centred : Asynchronous mediation in in-service teacher professional development

2022

Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory is a powerful foundation for research into teacher professional development. However, while this research has been growing, it has largely been focused on pre-service second/foreign language. Furthermore, there is a lack of research on how the instructional process informed by the principles of Sociocultural Theory, including assessment of candidates’ mediated performance, can be orchestrated to promote teachers’ conceptual development and induce changes in their classroom practices. The present study explores how asynchronous assessment of in-service teachers’ portfolios (with the focus on lesson planning) informed by dynamic assessment framework shaped the …

Vor-und Nachteile der Digitalisierung bei der Arbeit von Sprachexpertinnen und –experten

2020

While the future of work is discussed from many perspectives, discussions on how an individual's own work tasks are changing are relatively rare (Dufva et al. 2017). This article builds on our alumni study (Selkälä, Tahkokorpi & Virtaluoto 2018), in which we discovered that despite the perceived changes in working life - often called the disruption of work - the foreign language alumni of the Oulu University have found permanent positions in the traditional professions of language graduates with relative ease. For them, the disruption of work has not affected employability or the terms of employment. To investigate how working life has changed for people in these professions, we gathered gr…

"Kattokaa nyt missa? se kieli on" : English and French teachers' views on pronunciation and its teaching

2015

Tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää, mitä mieltä suomalaiset englannin ja ranskan opettajat ovat ääntämisen roolista kieltenopetuksessa, ja millaisin keinoin he tukevat oppilaidensa ääntämisen oppimista. Alan kansainvälisessä tutkimuksessa olettamus on usein, että opettajat opettavat omaa äidinkieltään, joten halusin tällä tutkimuksella myös selvittää, miten suomalaiset kieltenopettajat kokevat oman roolinsa opettamiensa kielten ei-syntyperäisinä puhujina. Tutkielma on luonteeltaan laadullinen, ja sen aineisto kerättiin haastattelemalla viittä opettajaa, joista jokainen opettaa tai on opettanut sekä englantia että ranskaa, joko peruskoulu- tai lukiotasolla. Haa…

Oral errors, corrective feedback and learner uptake in an EFL setting

2012

Oppilaiden kielelliset virheet ovat luonnollinen osa luokkahuonediskurssia vieraiden kielten oppitunneilla. Opettaja antaa usein korjaavaa palautetta (corrective feedback) oppilaidensa virheisiin, ja parhaassa tapauksessa palaute auttaa oppilaita oppimaan virheistään. Tutkielma pyrkii kartoittamaan erilaisia opettajien käyttämiä keinoja, kun he antavat korjaavaa palautetta oppilaiden puheessa tekemiin virheisiin. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan myös oppilaiden tapaa reagoida palautteeseen (uptake) ja sitä, onnistuvatko oppilaat korjaamaan alkuperäiset virheensä (repair). Tutkimuksen kohteena on kaksi lukiotason luokkaa ja heidän opettajansa. Aineisto koostuu kahdeksasta englannin tunnista (yhtee…

Pre-service language teachers’ perceptions of sustainability and its implementation in language teaching

2023

In both the school environment and teacher education, sustainable development is usually linked to the natural and social sciences and is rarely incorporated into language education or encouraged as part of language teacher education. As more research is needed on the practical implementation of sustainable development in language teaching and language teacher education, this study elucidates Finnish pre-service language teachers’ perceptions of sustainability dimensions (i.e. ecological, economic, social, and cultural) and their role in language teaching. We used a questionnaire comprising open-ended and Likert-scale questions to examine pre-service language teachers’ perceptions of and a…

An emotional framework in foreign language pedagogy : facing the Postmethod challenge

2015