Toimijuutta toisella kielellä : kansainvälisten sairaanhoitajaopiskelijoiden ammatillinen suomen kielen taito ja sen kehittyminen työharjoitteluissa
This dissertation focuses on the development of the agency and professional
Finnish language skills of international nursing students studying in an
English-medium degree program in Finland. The study draws on
sociocognitive and ecological perspectives to examine the social nature of
language and its use. This ethnographic theoretical-methodological orientation
helps to analyze both subjectively experienced and collectively emergent factors.
This longitudinal, multidisciplinary, and multimethodological study examines
how the professional language skills and agency of international nursing
students develop during their practical training. More specifically, the focus is
on the situated and experienced development. The focus is also on the
interrelation of the key concepts: agency, professional language skills, positions
and the resources of the environment. Relevant pedagogical issues are also
discussed. The findings of the four substudies are reported in four research
articles. The data of my substudies consist of media texts, as well as interviews
with international nursing students, teachers, and hospital staff. Interaction
data between the student and the mentors are also included. The data are
analyzed using dialogical analysis of beliefs, narrative analysis, nexus analysis,
and dialogical interaction analysis. The findings show that professional
language skills are embodied, distributed, and stratified in time and space.
Professional language skills are situational skills to perceive and use the
affordances of the work environment. The development of professional
language skills is seen as an expansion of the operational environment.
However, weak labor market positions as well as positioning in interaction
affect the students’ opportunities to exercise agency and promote professional
Finnish language skills. Therefore, positions are closely linked to the
development of agency and professional language skills. In order to support
students’ second language agency, flexible study plans and guidance practices
should be established. The study is a part of the project Finnish as a work
language: a sociocognitive perspective to work-related language skills of
immigrants (University of Jyväskylä).
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