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Apples, volume 8, issue 3, 2014
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The Use of Partitive Plural Predicatives by Learners of Finnish from Related and Non-related L1 Backgrounds: The same side of a slightly different coin
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The use of the partitive case, a typical case characterizing Finnic languages, remains a constant struggle for learners of Finnish as a foreign language. This paper reports on a study on the (under)use of partitive plural ... -
Frequency Change Patterns across Proficiency Levels in Japanese EFL Learner Speech
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study investigated the overall patterns of variation across seven oral proficiency levels of 1,263 Japanese EFL learners and native English speakers. The methodological approach combined a learner corpus, language ... -
Interrogative Clauses across CEFR Levels in Finnish and Swedish as an L2
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The present study investigates the frequency of three types of interrogative clauses in 329 semi-formal email messages written by language learners of Finnish and of Swedish spoken in Finland. All the written messages were ... -
Using Automatic Morphological Tools to Process Data from a Learner Corpus of Hungarian
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The aim of this article is to show how automatic morphological tools originally used to analyze native speaker data can be applied to process data from a learner corpus of Hungarian. We collected written data from 35 ... -
The Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2): Database and toolkit to study academic learner Finnish
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This paper introduces the Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2), one of the existing corpora of learner Finnish. The corpus was started at the University of Turku in 2007, and the initial motivation for its collection ... -
Establishing a Standardised Procedure for Building Learner Corpora
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Decisions at the outset of preparing a learner corpus are of crucial importance for how the corpus can be built and how it can be analysed later on. This paper presents a generic workflow to build learner corpora while ... -
Middle School Students’ Perceptions Towards Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In 2010, a heated political controversy centered on the Arizona Department of Education's desire to prohibit "heavily accented or ungrammatical teachers” from teaching English Language Learners (Blum & Johnson 2012; Jordan ... -
Pupils Doing Language Policy: Micro-interactional insights from the English as a foreign language classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In this paper, we examine instances of the methods pupils deploy to do language policy in an English as a foreign language classroom in Sweden, where there is a locally practised English-only rule. Although we exemplify ... -
The Effect of Automated Adaptive Corrective Feedback: L2 English questions
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The research on the amount and the types of corrective feedback beneficial for learning a second or foreign language has produced inconsistent results. Interestingly, studying corrective feedback from the perspective of a ... -
What makes a successful spoken request? Using corpus tools to analyse learner language in a UK EAP context
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study analyses the language of successful spoken requests used by Chinese intermediate level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students in Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) at a UK higher education institution. Using ... -
The Challenges of Teaching Reading in Uganda: Curriculum guidelines and language policy viewed from the classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The goal of this paper is to consider the challenges which Ugandan children experience in beginning to learn to read. The paper demonstrates that there are disparities between rural government and rural private school ... -
Special issue on Insights into Applied Linguistics: Languaging, agency and ecologies : Editorial
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Designing for language learning: agency and languaging in hybrid environments
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Since the beginning of the 21st Century, we have witnessed a remarkable shift in the ways learning takes place across networks, multiple sites and timescales. As the world changes, language teaching is facing growing ... -
Learning Slovak in an E-Learning Environment: A case study
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Providing a motivating learning environment for learning a less commonly taught language is a challenge. Developing technology, societal changes, virtual mobility and networking create new demands for teachers and students ... -
Silence and Resistance as Experiences and Presentations of Pupil Agency in Finnish Elementary School English Lessons
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This paper explores the multitude of ways in which Finnish fifth and sixth grade elementary school pupils experience and present their agency in English lessons, with a special focus on pupils' silence and resistance. Pupil ... -
Building Bridges - How secondary school pupils bring their informal learning experiences into a Content and Language Integrated (CLIL) classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This article explores how students’ informal language learning experiences with English find their way into the formal context of content-based language teaching (CLIL). The analysis is focused on stretches of classroom ... -
Agency and Motivation to Achieve Language-learning Objectives among Learners in an Academic Environment in France
(Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Personal agency within the area of learning may be construed as a process wherein learning objectives are achieved through volitional direction and tacit involvement in learning. Within the present study, perceived agency ... -
Multiethnic Japanese-English Bilinguals' Meal Time Talk
(Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study employs sequential conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to codeswitching multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual Japanese-English speakers. The research examines how participants ... -
Language Narratives from Adult Upper Secondary Education: Interrelating agency, autonomy and identity in foreign language learning
(Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Foreign language (FL) learning is increasingly examined in terms of the language learning person’s agency, autonomy and identity. What agency refers to in FL learning and how it relates to autonomy and identity nevertheless ...