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• The Development of Russian Heritage Pupils' Writing Proficiency in Finnish and Russian 

  Nieminen, Lea; Ullakonoja, Riikka (Multilingual Matters, 2018)

  James Cummins has stated that “a cognitively and academically beneficial form of bilingualism can be achieved only on the basis of adequately developed first language (L1) skills” (1979, p. 222). In this chapter we focus ...

• Nostalgia, community and resistance : Counter-cultural politics in a Finnish skinzine 

  Kotonen, Tommi (Intellect, 2019)

  Culture and community building are an essential part of the appeal of the far-right and fascist movements. Studying their cultural products is therefore important for a deeper understanding of the movement and their modus ...

• Russian-speaking immigrant teachers in Finnish classrooms : Views and lived experiences in Finnish education 

  Stikhin, Anatoly; Rynkänen, Tatjana (De Gruyter Open, 2017)

  Success of integration depends, amongst other things, on immigrants’ involvement in the host country’s education. Educational differences between home and host countries can either promote or hinder academic progress of ...

• Speech Rate as and Indicator of Fluency in the Russian of Finnish Learners. 

  Ullakonoja, Riikka (Tampere University Press, 2009)

  This study focuses on the speech rate development of 12 Finnish university students of Russian during their 3.5-month-study abroad experience. Speech and articulation rates are measured in phonetic words per second and ...

• Comparison of Pitch Range in Finnish (L1) and Russian (L2) 

  Ullakonoja, Riikka (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 2007)

  The aim of the present study is to investigate whether the pitch range of a speaker can vary according to the language he speaks. The hypothesis is tested on Finnish university students studying Russian as a foreign ...