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University Exchange Students’ Practices of Learning Finnish: A Language Ecological Approach to Affordances in Linguistic Landscapes

2020

In linguistic landscape (LL) studies, various projects have demonstrated how language learners benefit from tasks that involve the documentation and interpretation of the LL. In this chapter, we investigate how Finnish as a second language learner exchange students turned the local LL into affordances during their time abroad in Finland. While language awareness and its relation to learning and teaching have been extensively discussed, it has often been regarded as a property of an individual consciousness: a faculty or a tendency of a particular person to perceive, notice and reflect upon the linguistic features present in their environments. In contrast, we argue for an approach that cont…

Identification of Russian accented Finnish by native and non-native listeners with and without Finnish proficiency

2018


 
 
 The study focuses on how different groups of listeners, that is native Finnish speakers (n = 18), non-native learners of Finnish (n = 12) and non-native non-learners of Finnish (n = 18), judge samples (n = 80) of Russian accented Finnish in an auditory experiment. The samples are read-aloud phrases of three Finnish speakers and three L1 Russian beginner learners of Finnish who were recorded three times at six-month intervals during their residence in Finland. The results show that the listener groups differ significantly from each other in the ability to identify the Russian accented samples. In addition, all the listener groups reported to have paid more attention to p…

A magyar mint második nyelv tanításának nehézségei és sikerei Nagyváradon

2012

5-6 gadu vecu bērnu komunikatīvās kompetences attīstība multikulturālā klasē

2018

Maģistra darba “5-6 gadīgu bērnu komunikatīvās kompetences attīstīšana multikulturālā klasē” galvenais mērķis bija saprast un analizēt, kā bērni dotajā vecuma grupā attīsta savu komunikatīvo kompetenci otrās valodas apguvē, ņemot vērā, ka valodas mācīšanās notiek iegremdēšanās tipa skolā un bērni nāk no dažādiem vidēm. Teorētiskā daļa kalpoja par pamatu komunikatīvās kompetences koncepta saprašanai un kā tā attiecās uz mūsdienu izglītības vidi. Ar savāktās izpratnes par kompleksiem komunikatīvās kompetences elementiem palīdzību kļuva iespējams pieiet 5-6 gadīgo bērnu komunikatīvās kompetences novērtēšanai otrā valodā. Komunikatīvā kompetence tika analizēta, izmantojot novērošanu, intervijas…

Content based teaching of English on third graders in the Kortepohja elementary school : a case study

1997

"#Dontstayinschool" : learner perceptions on the connection between listening to extramural music in English and different areas of English skills

2015

Vapaa-aikana tapahtuva kielenoppiminen on yhä suuremmassa roolissa nykyaikana. Sitä on jo jonkin verran tutkittu, mutta tutkimus on pääasiallisesti ollut kaikki vapaa-ajan aktiviteetit huomioon ottavaa, eikä siinä täten ole keskitytty tarkemmin tiettyyn aktiviteettiin kuten musiikkiin. Englanninkielinen musiikki on yleisesti ottaen dominoivassa asemassa markkinoilla Suomessa, ja musiikin kuuntelu tarjoaa oppimiseen paljon myös muita kuin auditiivisia mahdollisuuksia, sillä on normaalia että sitä kuunneltaessa nähdään myös lyriikoita videolta tai lauletaan mukana. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoite oli selvittää suomalaisten nuorten englanninkielisen musiikin päivittäisiä kuuntelutottumuksia sekä akt…

The role of English-language music in informal learning of English

2012

Tässä tutkielmassa tarkasteltiin englanninkielisen musiikin yhteyttä englannin kielen oppimiseen. Englannin kielen leviäminen maailmanlaajuisesti näkyy voimakkaasti myös populaarikulttuurissa. Erityisesti nuoret suosivat englanninkielistä musiikkia ja omaksuvat siitä monenlaisia vaikutteita. Koulun ulkopuolella tapahtuva oppiminen muodostaakin valtaosan ihmisen elinikäisestä oppimisesta, mutta siitä on verrattain vähän tutkimustietoa. Tutkielma oli määrällinen ja aineisto kerättiin kyselylomakkeen avulla 97 lukiolaiselta. Mielenkiinnon kohteena olivat vastaajien musiikin kuuntelutottumukset sekä erityisesti heidän näkemyksensä ja kokemuksensa vapaa-ajalla kuunneltavan englanninkielisen musi…

Pitch contours in Russian yes/no questions by Finns

2010

The aim of this paper is to determine the pitch contours Finns use when uttering yes/no questions in Russian. In addition, the pitch contours will be compared to native speech as well as subjected to native speaker evaluation. So far, there has been very little research on the prosody of Russian as a second language. L1 Finnish students are an interesting group to study because intonation in Finnish is not distinctive whereas in Russian it is. peerReviewed

How do native speakers of Russian evaluate yes/no questions produced by Finnish L2 learners?

2010

This study analyzes native Russian speakers’ evaluation of seven Russian yes/noquestions each produced by Finnish speakers in two sets of recordings (during a stay in Russia and after it). The Finnish speakers were six female university students of Russian. This research question is interesting because the two typologically unrelated languages differ in the prosody of yes/no-questions. In Russian a yes/no-question is created from a lexically and syntactically corresponding statement by means of intonation, whereas in Finnish the cue for questioning is an interrogative particle – ko/-kö instead of prosody. Hence, native Finnish speakers are likely to have difficulties in pronouncing Russian …

Kokeilu kirjoittamisen itsearvioinnista tietokoneella

2001

This article discusses an experiment which we are conducting in the field of Finnish as a second language. We are developing an Internet-based program that learners of Finnish can use to assess their own writing skills. The program code originally comes from the DIALANG project, which is developing a diagnostic language assessment system for 14 languages for the Internet. We selected two new writing tasks for the program, and constructed related sets of benchmark performances to enable the learners to assess their own abilities. In the article, we first discuss the concepts of learner autonomy and self-assessment, in other words the theoretical framework that underlies the program. This is …