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Book Review: Kiraly, D. & Signer, S. (2017). Scaffolded Language Emergence in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice.
(University of Jyväskylä, Centre for Applied Language Studies, 2017)
This is a book review for Donald Kiraly and Sarah Signer's co-written piece that provides a readers a new approach to language learning. In Scaffolded Language Emergence (SLE), the classroom environment is revised to ...
CLIL teachers in Finland : The role of emotions in professional identity negotiation
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
Research on emotions has yielded many theoretical perspectives and many concepts. Yet, most scholars have focused on how emotions influence the transformation and maintenance of teacher identities in the field of teacher ...
Co-constructing a rubric checklist with first year university students: A self-assessment tool
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
This paper reports on a study in which students co-constructed a rubric checklist
with their lecturer and which they used to assess themselves. Data were collected
by means of a student questionnaire, tutor feedback, as ...
Colombia’s nationwide EFL policy and the construction of equity in policy documents
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
The Colombia Bilingüe (Colombia Bilingual) 1 program was introduced by the
Ministry of Education (MEN) in 2004 with aims of increasing the teaching and
learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at primary, secondary ...
Does Finland Need Raciolinguistics?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
Test usefulness of IELTS writing test tasks
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
This analysis was conducted to find out the extent to which IELTS writing test tasks are useful for its intended purpose. The indicators of test usefulness used in this study are those of Bachman and Palmer (1996): construct ...
To feed back or to feed forward? : Students' experiences of and responses to feedback in a Finnish EFL classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
Good feedback is a powerful element in learning. Ultimately, however, the impact feedback has on learning depends on how the learner responds to that feedback. So far, foreign or second language studies on feedback have ...
Work-related language learning trajectories of migrant cleaners in Finland
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
Cleaning is often the survival employment that migrants can get in their new home country. Ideally, the workplace can be a site for integration and language learning. This article explores how two migrants working as ...
“Enymärä”: Thoughts on the use of Finnish as the majority language in locally published EFL activity books
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)
It has been a long tradition in Finland to use locally published textbooks in primary foreign language education. The books have been designed for linguistically homogenous groups of students, which explains why Finnish, ...