Hilden, Raili; Pulkkinen, Jonna; Rautopuro, Juhani(Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand, 2022)
This paper addresses the aspect of the meaningfulness of a national assessment in English as a foreign language, applying the fairness framework proposed by Kunnan (2018). We compared students’ performance on two receptive ...
Finnish writer Bo Carpelan (1926-2011) gained unparalleled recognition amongst Finland-Swedish readers at home and others worldwide for his work as a poet and novelist. Yet despite a good deal of his literary output having ...
Identity is at the core of all human experience, and that is no different for teaching and learning experiences in second or other language learning classrooms. Yet the task of defining learner identity within these contexts ...
Sun, Dukkeum; Ruohotie-Lyhty, Maria Elina(Routledge, 2022)
This study explores the dialogical nature of agency when two immigrant pupils, who are learning Finnish as their new target language, are authoring their selves. Bakhtin’s dialogism was the inspiration for this examination ...
Suomalaiset väittävät usein ulkomaalaisille, että suomi on maailman vaikein kieli. Sekä maahanmuuttajien suomen kielen opettajille että kielen oppimisen tutkijoille on kuitenkin selvää, että väite on pohjimmiltaan pötyä. ...
