Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies: Recent submissions
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Measuring syntactic complexity in learner Finnish
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)In the study of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF), syntactic complexity can be measured by a multitude of measures. Traditionally, the measures are quantitative and they use production ... -
Feedback practices in language classes in Finnish general upper secondary schools
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)As feedback and formative assessment have a substantial effect on learning, the aim with this paper is to report on a study of the perceptions of Finnish general upper secondary school students of feedback in Swedish and ... -
Language-aware operational culture : Developing in-service training for early childhood education and care
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)This study examines how practitioners of minority-medium Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Finland reflect on language awareness (LA) in their professional learning communities (PLCs). The study is conducted ... -
The value of academics’ research-related online writing
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)Research productivity indicators tend to ignore online and social media writing of academics, nevertheless, many academics for instance tweet and blog. It thus seems that there is additional value for writing in these ... -
Qui suis-je : Discontinuity as part of teacher identity in Canadian French immersion
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)The scarcity of research on French immersion teachers’ professional identity contrasts with the increasing popularity of French immersion programs in Canada and the concomitant need for French immersion teachers. This study ... -
Plagiarism Defined? : A multiple case study analysis of institutional definitions
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)This multiple case study examines seven institutional documents from universities in four countries (Australia, China, Finland and Germany) with the aim of determining how plagiarism is defined in these institutional ... -
Students’ perspectives on English medium instruction within higher education : exploring gender differences in Norway and Finland
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)This study aims to explore gender differences in students’ perspectives on language use within higher education (HE), using data from a survey distributed to students at two universities in Norway and Finland. Analysing ... -
Editorial : Faith literacy practices among Muslim children, youth and families in Scandinavia
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Final commentary : What is the Qurʾān?
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How Islamic are young Muslim people’s poems?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)In this article, I investigate poetry written by two young Muslim people during their spare time. Adopting Shahab Ahmed’s (2016) understanding of Islamic in its plenitude and complexity, I ask how Islamic their texts are. ... -
Quranic app practices among multilingual Muslim youth in Denmark
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)This article sheds light on a set of religious literacy practices which have so far received very little scientific attention, namely ‘quranic app practices’. Quranic app practices are conceptualized as ways of engaging ... -
Literacy practices in two Danish-Somali families : Between training, testing and “feeding the soul”
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)This article explores the literacy practices in two Danish-Somali families with young children. The data comes from focused ethnographic fieldwork in the families. The study is rooted in a sociocultural view of literacy, ... -
Liturgical literacy as hidden capital : Experiences from Qur’an education in Sweden
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)This article focuses on a form of supplementary Islamic education that centres on Qur’an studies and examines the reported experiences of Muslim students that regularly shift between this and their mainstream secular school. ... -
Why bother maintaining languages? : A discussion based on diminishing Chinese dialects in Malaysia
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2020)Language maintenance and language shift are vital subfields in sociolinguistics. In Malaysia, past studies have observed a shift from Chinese dialects to Mandarin Chinese in the language use of many young generation Chinese, ... -
Introductory commentary : Lived experiences of qur’anic schooling in Scandinavia
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)Reading the contributions to this special issue, it is striking how little research has hitherto been conducted on qur’anic schooling and Qur’an faith literacy practices in Scandinavia, despite it being well-known that the ... -
Developing picture communication for interactional situations at the beginning of the asylum process; mapping interactional practices
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)The paper reports the initial findings of the first phase of the research and development project PICCORE – Picture Communication in Reception Centres. The goal was to map the use of pictures and other visual modes of ... -
Suomen kielen käyttämiseen liittyvät tunteet, käsitykset ja toimijuus
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelen sosiokulttuurisen teorian näkökulmasta kahden korkeakoulutetun suomen kielen käyttäjän kielenoppimiseen ja kielen käyttämiseen liittyviä tunteita sekä sitä, miten tunteet ja käsitykset ... -
The monolingual habitus of German society challenging the interests of an autochthonous minority language : Linguistic landscapes in the Sorbian “capital” of Bautzen / Budyšin
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)This paper analyzes the LL in the city of Bautzen / Budyšin in Germany, a town which is frequently considered the “capital” of the Slavonic minority of the Sorbs. It focuses on the societal role of Sorbian in relation to ... -
Where do my words come from? : towards methods for analyzing word choice in primary level writing
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)Few intellectual tools exist for characterizing word choice development in primary level writing. The aim of this study was to identify categories for describing the development of word choice in young children’s narrative ... -
CLIL modules and their affective impact on students with high English anxiety and low self-efficacy
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2019)Many studies in recent years focused on the efficiency of bilingual education in different school settings. If a school pursues a regular implementation of CLIL modules instead of the establishment of proper CLIL streams, ...