Co-design focused, participatory approach to exploring a digital literacy support serious game with Finnish language and literacy teachers of adult migrants with limited/interrupted formal education experience: research data

Abstract

Mixed data production:

Sub-study 1 investigated the role of technology in adult migrant language and late literacy education in Finland. The dataset included an online pre-pandemic survey targeted at Finnish language and literacy teachers and four in-service teacher interviews conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020.

Survey data of teachers (written data in Finnish) was produced in November 2019. The online teacher survey was motivated to create an indicative overview of the current situation of adult migrant second language and literacy education in Finland. The survey’s interests were the (practical) use of technical equipment in teaching as well as the (pedagogical) use of digital methods and applications. Interview data consists of four written in-service teachers' interview transcripts in Finnish. Four teachers were individually interviewed once. These unstructured, conversational interviews were remotely conducted in Finnish, via Zoom (September-October 2020) to inform teachers about the next sub-study. Duration of transcribed interviews is ca. 140 mins (approx. 19,000 words in total).

In sub-study 2, in-service Finnish language and literacy teachers tested, evaluated and re-designed a research version of the literacy support app 'Professori Pörröpää ja Lukukupla' developed by the AllRead research project team at the University of Jyväskylä. This subdataset included interview data of these three teachers working with adult migrants with limited/interrupted formal education experience (10 written interview transcripts in Finnish, including screenshots from the recorded video interviews), individual teachers were interviewed online via Zoom three to four times between September 2020 to May 2021. Three induction interviews were non-structured, seven evaluation interviews were semi-structured. Duration of transcribed interviews ca. 10 h 30 mins.

Aineisto sisältää verkkokyselyn ja haastattelut, joilla selvitettiin suomen kielen opettajien näkemyksiä teknologian roolista aikuisten maahanmuuttajien kielenoppimisessa Suomessa. Tutkimus keskittyi käytössä oleviin kielen oppimista ja lukutaitoa edistämään suunniteltuihin opetussovelluksiin ja niiden käyttöön osana pedagogiikkaa. Kysely toteutettiin vuonna 2019 ennen COVID19-pandemiaa ja haastattelut pandemian aikana vuonna 2020.

Aineisto sisältää myös opettajien haastattelut, jotka toteutettiin Jyväskylän yliopiston AllRead: Digitaalinen oppimisympäristö GraphoLearn lukutaidon kehitystä tukemassa -tutkimushankkeessa kehitetyn 'Professori Pörröpää ja Lukukupla' -oppimissovelluksen testaus- ja arviointivaiheessa.