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Approaching pedagogical language knowledge through student teachers: assessment of second language writing
2015
The article examines student teachers' pedagogical language knowledge. The analysis is based on data from an applied task in which Finnish student teachers (n = 221) of 16 school subjects assessed second language (SL) learners' writing skills. First, we briefly discuss subject teachers' role in language and literacy teaching in the multilingual and multicultural classroom. Our findings indicate that the student teachers use a range of criteria but focus mainly on word-level assessment when assessing writing samples, and that their assessment orientation varies from technical to analytical. Finally, we discuss the challenges of developing teacher education to promote pedagogical language kno…
What’s in the family app? : Making sense of digitally mediated communication within multilingual families
2020
Communication within contemporary families is increasingly and to a significant extent mediated through technological devices and digital applications. Although the everyday reality of many multilingual families is permeated by technology, research on their digital and language practices has been scant. This article argues for the need for eclectic approaches that draw upon theories, practices, and findings from research on transnational families and migration, digitally mediated family communication, parental mediation, multilingualism online, and family multilingualism and language transmission. Two empirical case studies are presented on multilingual family constellations in Finland in w…
Planting in the pandemic : surveillance on social media
2023
This article looks at interest-driven and informal social media practices that have flourished in the pandemic period and its ensuing renaissance of domesticity. It investigates how tending plants and discussing them on social media serve as a particular site for connecting around loving and taking care of plants. Its focus is on the discursive means with which posters – guided by social media algorithms – rhetorically co-construct a morally acceptable version of a pandemic lifestyle around houseplants. More specifically, drawing on multimodal discourse studies, critical sociolinguistics and work on digital surveillance, it investigates how members of a Finland-based social media site obser…
Atsaukšana un conteksts karjeras specifiska vārdu krājuma mācīšanai vidusskolas angļu valodas stundās
2022
Mūsdienās pateicoties globalizācijai angļu valoda kļūst aizvien svarīgāka lai spētu pilnībā piedalīties mācību un darba vidē. Šajās vidēs personām vajadzētu zināt ne tikai atbilstošu daudzumu angļu valodas ikdienas saziņai, bet arī izmantot vārdu krājumu, kas ir specifisks dotajai nozarei. Daži no veidiem kā efektīvāk mācīt vārdu krājumu ir atsaukšana un konteksta pavedieni. Diplomdarba mērķis bija izpētīt atsaukšanas un konteksta efektivitāti un karjerai specificēta vārdu krājuma svarīgumu skolēniem. Par pētījuma metodi tika izvēlēts atsevišķa gadījuma pētījums, kura laikā tika veikti praktiski uzdevumi un tika secināts, ka lai gan atsaukšana un konteksta pavedieni var būt efektīvas metode…
Synopsis of the tools for enhancing the attractiveness of European study programs in Biosystems Engineering
2010
Warfare as a catalyst for lexico-semantic change from late old english to middle english: a study of norse and french influences on the semantic fiel…
2022
El objetivo de esta tesis es analizar cómo la guerra en la Inglaterra medieval sirvió como motor para la evolución lingüística de la lengua inglesa y, más específicamente, cómo los préstamos y los cambios semánticos afectaron al campo semántico de [WAR] (‘la guerra’). Aunque se ha dedicado una gran cantidad de literatura al contacto lingüístico y sus resultados, esta área del lenguaje nunca antes se había abordado por completo. Si comparamos el vocabulario de cualquier texto del inglés antiguo con un texto de inglés contemporáneo, rápidamente podemos observar diferencias notables. A pesar de que a simple vista se observan claros cambios ortográficos y gramaticales, quizás la más identificab…
Varhaista monikielisyyttä tukemassa : kielitietoiset toimintatavat varhaiskasvatuksessa
2020
Varhaiskasvatuksen monikielisyyttä on Suomessa tutkittu tähän saakka lähinnä erilaisten paikallisten, yhteen tai muutamaan kieleen keskittyvien kielipainotusohjelmien näkökulmasta. Sen sijaan vielä melko tutkimattomia alueita ovat kielenoppiminen sekä monikielisyyden ja monikielisyyttä tukevien toimintatapojen toteutuminen niissä varhaiskasvatusyksiköissä, joissa ryhmien kielellinen moninaisuus ei ole varhaiskasvatuksen järjestäjien tietoinen valinta. Siksi tarvitaan tutkimuspohjaista tietoa erilaisista varhaiskasvatusympäristöistä sekä niiden tavoista yhtäältä huomioida perheiden monikielisyys ja toisaalta tukea kaikkien oman varhaiskasvatusyksikön lasten kasvua kielitietoisiksi. Tarkastel…
Bodily Practices in Action Formation and Ascription in Multilingual Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue.
2022
This special issue brings together empirical studies that investigate how bodily practices feature in action formation and action ascription in multilingual interaction (Schegloff, 2007; Levinson, 2013). Grounded in video-based conversation analysis and drawing on data from diverse sociomaterial settings, the articles investigate the contingent interactional processes through which speakers from different language backgrounds accomplish actions and achieve intersubjectivity. They demonstrate how specific constellations of linguistic resources, bodily conduct, spatial configurations, and material ecology are built into accomplishment of actions at different levels of interactional organizati…
In the name of security : Governmentality apparatus in a multilingual mine in Arctic Finland
2021
This critical sociolinguistic study explores how mining work is governed in the name of security in a mine in Arctic Finland. Although the mining industry is dominated by multinational corporations, mines themselves tend to be concentrated in peripheries where a mobile and multilingual workforce is recruited. Mining is a high-risk business: industrial accidents and environmental damage can be severe. Discursive practices play a crucial role in risk management. In this study, the nexus of language, security, and production in mining work is analyzed by applying the Foucauldian concept of 'governmentality'. The data comprise ethnographic observations, work-related documents, and interviews co…
Multilingualism in (Foreign) Language Teaching and Learning
2019
I am an applied linguist who considers language learning to be a socially constructed practice. In fact, I would rather talk about applied language studies than applied linguistics, as I understand this area of inquiry to include any language-related research that bears a strong connection to societally significant phenomena. In that broad palette of research, my own work would be placed at the interface of the areas of language learning and teaching, on the one hand, and discourse studies and sociolinguistics, on the other. I have always worked with students who wish to be language teachers. Over the years, I have seen hundreds of students entering working life that is in constant turmoil.…