2016, Volume 10, Issue 2
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Way better than the original!! Music video covers and language revitalisation : A sociosemiotic view
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)The development of the social media has opened up new spaces and genres for minoritised languages. As argued in previous research, access to new media spaces can contribute to the revitalisation of minoritised languages ... -
Book Review: Michele Schweisfurth, 2013. Learner-Centered Education in International Perspective: Whose pedagogy for whose development? Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York.
(University of Jyväskylä, Centre for Applied Language Studies, 2016)This book introduces the definition and provenance of LCE and analyses its application and implementation in global, national and local contexts with Bronfenbrenner’s eco-systemic theory and three narratives: cognition, ... -
To dictogloss or not to dictogloss: Potential effects on Jordanian EFL learners’ written performance
(University of Jyväskylä, Centre for Applied Language Studies, 2016)This study investigates the potential effect of a proposed dictogloss-based program on Jordanian EFL tenth-grade teachers' writing instruction and on their students' writing performance. The participants are 20 Jordanian ... -
Negotiating understandings of language learning with Elli and her parents in their home
(University of Jyväskylä, Centre for Applied Language Studies, 2016)The relationship between pupils’ in-class and out-of-class language-related, often digital, practices is becoming a central concern in current language education when pedagogic designs are considered. The study looks at a ... -
The planning and building of a new residential community: A discourses survey
(University of Jyväskylä, Centre for Applied Language Studies, 2016)The study introduces the results of a discourses survey mapping the media content and public views on the emergence of a residential community in a northern Finnish city. Three major discourses were seen to be at play in ... -
Insights into the agency, positioning and development of professional Finnish language skills of international nursing students
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)This article focuses on international students studying in an English-mediated nursing degree program in Finland. From sociocognitive and ecological perspectives, this study examines the development of the students’ ...