Mahdollisuuksien rajoissa : neksusanalyysi suomen kielen oppimisesta siivoustyössä
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.
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Neksusanalyysi suomen kielen oppimisesta siivoustyössäPublisher
University of JyväskyläISBN
978-951-39-7265-3ISSN Search the Publication Forum
1459-4331Contains publications
- 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.
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