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Diversity in CLIL as experienced by Finnish CLIL teachers and students : matters of equality and equity
2022
This article focuses on how Finnish CLIL teachers and students orient to and experience diversity in CLIL. The data consist of teacher and student interviews that were analysed using qualitative content analysis to identify recurrent themes with regard to diversity. The findings indicate that the theme of equality in the sense of ‘the same for all’ in both teaching, assessing and homework was readily brought up by both groups, reflecting the ethos of equality prevalent in Finnish education. Equity, however, was not similarly highlighted even though it is a guiding principle alongside equality in the Finnish Core Curriculum for Basic Education. Teachers were found reluctant to topicalise div…
Design perspectives on technology, language teaching and language teacher education
2012
Despite the national strategies and major efforts to promote pedagogical use of ICTs in education, training programs for in-service teachers have often failed to develop sustainable pedagogical practice. For sustainable development, teachers need to be offered opportunities to explore the role of technology in relation to their concept of language and learning, and reforms should be designed in negotiation with teachers and students. In teacher education, aspiring teachers are being informed of the latest research results, but bringing the theory down to practice is a major task that calls for development work soundly based on research. In this paper we suggest that design-based research (D…
Analysing Lexical Density and Lexical Diversity in University Students’ Written Discourse
2015
Abstract This study analyses both lexical density and lexical diversity in the written production of two groups of first year students at the Universitat de Valencia at the beginning and end of one-semester teaching period. These results were compared with those obtained by a third group of students aiming at level C2. Lexical density was tested using Textalyser ( http://textalyser.net ) and lexical frequency used the software RANGE (Nation and Heatly, 1994). Our results prove that the students from both groups at level B1 show the same progression between writing tasks 1 and 3. Furthermore, we can claim that it is possible to obtain a reliable measure of lexical richness which is stable ac…
Multi-sensorie uzdevumi angļu valodas apguvei pirmsskolā
2016
Diplomdarba autore ir angļu valodas skolotāja pirmsskolā, un ir izveidojusi angļu valodas mācību programmu "Happy Child". 2015.gadā četri skolotāji mācīja angļu valodu saskaņā ar šo programmu piecās pirmsskolas izglītības iestādēs Latvijā. Vēlme pilnveidot angļu valodas mācību programmu ir mudinājusi izmēģināt dažādas pedagoģiskās pieejas, lai uzlabotu pirmsskolas vecuma bērnu angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguvi; kā viens no risinājumiem ir rasts multi-sensoro uzdevumu izmantojums angļu valodas stundās. Par noslēguma darba formu tika izvēlēts diplomdarbs, lai veiktu pētījumu par multi-sensorajiem uzdevumiem saistībā ar pirmsskolas vecuma bērnu angļu valodas vārdu krājuma apguvi. Diplomdarba …
GraphoLearn India : The Effectiveness of a Computer-Assisted Reading Intervention in Supporting Struggling Readers of English
2018
India, a country with a population of more than 1.3 billion individuals, houses the world’s second largest educational system. Despite this, 100 of millions of individuals in India are still illiterate. As English medium education sweeps the country, many are forced to learn in a language which is foreign to them. Those living in poverty further struggle to learn English as it tends to be a language which they have no prior exposure to and no support at home for. Low-quality schools and poor instructional methods further exacerbate the problem. Without access to quality education, these individuals continue to struggle and are ultimately never given the chance to break the cycle of poverty.…
Measuring syntactic complexity in learner Finnish
2020
In the study of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF), syntactic complexity can be measured by a multitude of measures. Traditionally, the measures are quantitative and they use production units such as words, clauses, T -units, and sentences. Despite the vast number o f measures available, many studies have used only one or two of them, or parallel ones tapping the same component of complexity. The present study explores syntactic complexity using seven frequently used quantitative complexity measures to gauge different facets of complexity in written learner Finnish. The data of the study consist of texts written by adult and adolescent language learners, and they cover proficiency level…
Opettajaopiskelijoiden kielitoinen toimijuus monikielisten oppijoiden etäohjauksessa
2022
Artikkelissa tarkastellaan opettajaopiskelijoiden kielitietoista toimijuutta ohjaustilanteessa, jossa he tukevat etäyhteyksin eri-ikäisiä monikielisiä oppijoita. Ennestään tuntemattomien monikielisten oppijoiden ohjaaminen etäyhteyksin oli opettajaopiskelijoille uusi ja haastava tilanne pandemiakriisissä vuonna 2020. Tutkimuksen aineistona on yhdentoista opettajaopiskelijan ohjaustehtävästä kirjoittamat raportit, jotka on analysoitu aineistolähtöisen temaattisen analyysin keinoin. Analyysissa tarkasteltiin seikkoja, jotka mahdollistavat ja rajoittavat varhaiskasvatuksen, luokanopettajakoulutuksen ja kielten aineenopettajakoulutuksen opiskelijoiden kielitietoista toimijuutta monikielisten op…
Pronunciation Learning Strategy Chains: A Qualitative Approach
2014
Language learning is a daunting process frequently enhanced by a number of factors, for example, language learning strategies deployed in an orchestrated manner (Oxford 1990). Similarly, pronunciation learning may be supported by effective strategies used either separately or in logically combined chains. However, little attention has been given so far to the strategies L2 learners employ when learning the target language pronunciation, not to mention pronunciation learning strategy chains. Hence, there have been a limited number of empirical investigations into pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) in general and in particular the ones following the qualitative design (cf. Bukowski 2004;…
Promoting multilingual communicative competence through multimodal academic learning situations
2016
This paper presents information on the factors affecting the development of multilingual and multicultural communicative competence in interactive multimodal learning environments in an academic context. The interdisciplinary course in multilingual interaction offered at the University of Jyväskylä aims to enhance students’ competence in multilingual and multicultural academic communication by promoting the use of their entire linguistic repertoire in various learning situations. Throughout the course, we observed the students’ engagement in multilingual and multicultural activities. These observations suggest that simultaneous use of multiple languages in synchronous and asynchronous learn…
Building self through foreign language learning : a case study of four adult language learners' emerging identities
2015
Oppiminen on vahvasti sidoksissa identiteettiin, sillä se voi saada aikaan muutoksen ihmisessä niin ajatuksen, toiminnan kuin tekojenkin tasolla. Vieraan kielen oppimista onkin verrattu uuden identiteetin omaksumiseen, sillä sen myötä oppijan käsitys itsestään muuttuu. Tarkempaa tietoa siitä, miten oppijat kokevat muuttuvansa ja millaisia identiteettejä heillä on kielen oppimisen myötä, löytyy kuitenkin hyvin vähän. Tämän lisäksi suurin osa kielen oppimisen ja identiteetin yhdistävistä tutkimuksista on tehty toisen kielen kontekstissa, jolloin kohderyhmänä ovat pääsääntöisesti olleet maahanmuuttajat, joiden vieraan kielen identiteetin muodostamiseen liittyy kuitenkin hyvin erilaisia prosess…