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Mahdollisuuksien rajoissa : neksusanalyysi suomen kielen oppimisesta siivoustyössä

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Jyväskylä studies in humanities
Authors
Strömmer, Maiju
Date
2017
Discipline
Suomen kieli

 
This dissertation focuses on Finnish language learning opportunities in cleaning work, which is the most common job for immigrants in Finland. The study investigates what opportunities and constraints there are for Finnish language learning in cleaning work, how a work community supports language learning, and what factors facilitate or constrain investment in language learning at work. Language learning opportunities are explored from an ecological approach as affordances – the reciprocal relations between an individual and his/her social and physical environment. The study also explores the scaffolding provided by the work community and investment in second language learning. Nexus analysis based on the research traditions of critical discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and interactional sociolinguistics is applied as the methodological framework of the study. The data were generated ethnographically in two cleaning workplaces and they consist of interviews, observations, fieldnotes, photographs and audio- and video-recorded interaction situations. The findings of the four sub-studies are reported in four research articles. The findings show that Finnish language learning opportunities in cleaning work are limited because cleaning is routine-like and the structures of outsourced cleaning services restrict cleaners’ language use. The availability of affordances and their pedagogical value depend largely on the work community, which plays a crucial role in providing verbal and embodied scaffolding to workers who speak Finnish as a second language. This study did, however, identify a virtuous circle that enables second language learning: learning requires perceiving and utilising meaningful affordances, more affordances are opened up with the scaffolding provided by the work community, and learners’ positive positioning and meaningful career plans motivate them to invest in work-related language learning. On the other hand, because immigrants are often positioned in manual work in low-paid sectors, their opportunities to invest in developing professional language skills are limited. Providing meaningful education and career trajectories would support the goal-oriented language learning of immigrants. ...
Alternative title
Neksusanalyysi suomen kielen oppimisesta siivoustyössä
Publisher
University of Jyväskylä
ISBN
978-951-39-7265-3
ISSN Search the Publication Forum
1459-4331
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  • Artikkeli I: Partanen, Maiju 2013. Suomen kielen oppimisen mahdollisuudet ja työ- yhteisön tuki puhdistuspalvelualalla: afrikkalaisten maahanmuuttajien käsityksiä ja kokemuksia. Teoksessa Tiina Keisanen, Elise Kärkkäinen, Mirja Rauniomaa, Pauliina Siitonen & Maarit Siromaa (toim.) Osallistumisen multimodaaliset diskurssit. Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen julkaisuja 71. Jyväskylä: AFinLA, 55–76. URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201503311534.
  • Artikkeli II: Strömmer, Maiju 2016a. Affordances and constraints: Second language learning in cleaning work. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 35 (6), 697–721. DOI: 10.1515/multi-2014-0113.
  • Artikkeli III: Strömmer, Maiju 2016b. Material scaffolding: Supporting the comprehension of migrant cleaners at work. European Journal of Applied Linguistics 4 (2), 239–275. DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2015-0039.
  • Artikkeli IV: Strömmer, M. (2017). Work-related language learning trajectories of migrant cleaners in Finland. Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies, 11 (4), 137-160. DOI: 10.17011/apples/urn.201712214863.
Keywords
Finnish as a second language second language learning language in the workplace nexus analysis scaffolding investment suomen kieli suomi toisena kielenä kielen oppiminen siivousala työyhteisöt kielellinen vuorovaikutus kielenkäyttö työelämän sosiologia
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