Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies: Recent submissions
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Middle School Students’ Perceptions Towards Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In 2010, a heated political controversy centered on the Arizona Department of Education's desire to prohibit "heavily accented or ungrammatical teachers” from teaching English Language Learners (Blum & Johnson 2012; Jordan ... -
Pupils Doing Language Policy: Micro-interactional insights from the English as a foreign language classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In this paper, we examine instances of the methods pupils deploy to do language policy in an English as a foreign language classroom in Sweden, where there is a locally practised English-only rule. Although we exemplify ... -
The Effect of Automated Adaptive Corrective Feedback: L2 English questions
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The research on the amount and the types of corrective feedback beneficial for learning a second or foreign language has produced inconsistent results. Interestingly, studying corrective feedback from the perspective of a ... -
What makes a successful spoken request? Using corpus tools to analyse learner language in a UK EAP context
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study analyses the language of successful spoken requests used by Chinese intermediate level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students in Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) at a UK higher education institution. Using ... -
The Challenges of Teaching Reading in Uganda: Curriculum guidelines and language policy viewed from the classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The goal of this paper is to consider the challenges which Ugandan children experience in beginning to learn to read. The paper demonstrates that there are disparities between rural government and rural private school ... -
Special issue on Insights into Applied Linguistics: Languaging, agency and ecologies : Editorial
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Designing for language learning: agency and languaging in hybrid environments
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Since the beginning of the 21st Century, we have witnessed a remarkable shift in the ways learning takes place across networks, multiple sites and timescales. As the world changes, language teaching is facing growing ... -
Learning Slovak in an E-Learning Environment: A case study
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Providing a motivating learning environment for learning a less commonly taught language is a challenge. Developing technology, societal changes, virtual mobility and networking create new demands for teachers and students ... -
Silence and Resistance as Experiences and Presentations of Pupil Agency in Finnish Elementary School English Lessons
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This paper explores the multitude of ways in which Finnish fifth and sixth grade elementary school pupils experience and present their agency in English lessons, with a special focus on pupils' silence and resistance. Pupil ... -
Building Bridges - How secondary school pupils bring their informal learning experiences into a Content and Language Integrated (CLIL) classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This article explores how students’ informal language learning experiences with English find their way into the formal context of content-based language teaching (CLIL). The analysis is focused on stretches of classroom ... -
Agency and Motivation to Achieve Language-learning Objectives among Learners in an Academic Environment in France
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Personal agency within the area of learning may be construed as a process wherein learning objectives are achieved through volitional direction and tacit involvement in learning. Within the present study, perceived agency ... -
Multiethnic Japanese-English Bilinguals' Meal Time Talk
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study employs sequential conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to codeswitching multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual Japanese-English speakers. The research examines how participants ... -
Language Narratives from Adult Upper Secondary Education: Interrelating agency, autonomy and identity in foreign language learning
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Foreign language (FL) learning is increasingly examined in terms of the language learning person’s agency, autonomy and identity. What agency refers to in FL learning and how it relates to autonomy and identity nevertheless ... -
Creating Oneself through Narratives: Agency in first-semester university students’ career plans
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)In this paper I examine expressions of agency in autobiographical narratives by Finnish speaking university students of Swedish. Students who write about themselves, their decisions and their career plans are simultaneously ... -
Universitäten zwischen Internationalisierung und Globalisierung: In welcher Sprache sollte ich publizieren?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)Internationalisierung ist heute als erklärtes Ziel in Strategien von Universitäten und Bildungsministerien unterschiedlichster Länder verankert. Zu Internationalisierungsbestrebungen gehören z. B. die Förderung der Mobilität ... -
Emotional investments during the Year Abroad: A case study of a British ERASMUS student in Italy
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)This article focuses on the shaping of social identities and emotions of one British young woman who spent a Year Abroad (YA) in Italy as an ERASMUS student. I have examined her negotiation and (re)construction of social ... -
Towards a more efficient EFL reading comprehension classroom environment : The role of content and critical reading
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)Traditional reading comprehension methods background the sometimes controversial content of texts in the interest of ‘ensuring comprehension’ via dealing with language points. According to Wallace (1992), EFL learners are ... -
Editorial : Special issue on Second Language and Literacy Acquisition of Low-Educated Adult Immigrants
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Studying in Comprehensive School with Low Second Language Writing Proficiency
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)In this article, we report a case study on the Finnish as an L2 writing skill of weak writers in grades 7–9 of comprehensive school. The study is based on writing performances of 25 students who each completed four different ... -
Testing the Reading Ability of Low Educated ESOL Learners
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)Current national policy requires all further education courses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to be accredited, including those in English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL). However, there are issues surrounding ...