2014, Volume 8, Issue 1
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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 ... -
Creating Oneself through Narratives: Agency in first-semester university students’ career plans
(Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In this paper I examine expressions of agency in autobiographical narratives by Finnish speaking university students of Swedish. Students who write about themselves, their decisions and their career plans are simultaneously ...