Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies: viimeksi lisätyt
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To feed back or to feed forward? : Students' experiences of and responses to feedback in a Finnish EFL classroom
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Good feedback is a powerful element in learning. Ultimately, however, the impact feedback has on learning depends on how the learner responds to that feedback. So far, foreign or second language studies on feedback have ... -
A teacher-in-context: Negotiating professional identity in a job promotion examination
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Although there is an increasing body of research on the formation/re-formation of language teacher identity, there are still contexts within the professional p ractice of language teachers that remain relatively unexplored. ... -
The transition from L2 learner to L2 teacher: A longitudinal study of a Japanese teacher of English in Japan
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)While newly employed teachers may begin their career with certain ideas and beliefs, these are influenced by different stimuli, encounters and constraints which lead to the ongoing recalibration of their L2 identity. This ... -
“Positive feelings about my work: I needed it!” Emotions and emotion self-regulation in language teachers
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Similar to learning, teaching is not exclusively a cognitive matter. Teachers’ emotions play a significant role in their teaching practice. For language teachers especially, the link between teachers’ emotions, identities ... -
Shame and SLA
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)The present article addresses the question of foreign language classroom shame (FLCS) in France. As a first step to collecting data, thirty participants were asked to narrate their language learning experiences in the ... -
A teacher’s moral role in mobilizing students’ motivation beyond L2 vision
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)This paper concerns an exploratory practice (EP) project in a Japanese junior college EFL classroom. Central to it is an EFL course specifically designed to enhance language learners’ future visions of themselves as L2 ... -
The power of assessment : What (dis)empowers students in their EFL assessment in a Finnish upper secondary school?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Assessment wields a great deal of power over students. Yet, there is little research on how students, either in general or as individuals, experience assessment. Therefore, this study aimed to explore what disempowers or ... -
Intensive online foreign language learning at the advanced level: Insights from a summer online Spanish course
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Hybrid and online foreign language courses are becoming increasingly more important for students. However, several gaps in the literature point to needing studies investigating courses taught online, at the advanced level, ... -
Perceived impact of extra-curricular activities on foreign language learning in Canadian and Russian university contexts
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)This paper surveys language-related extra-curricular activities (ECA) attended by university students in Canada and Russia. Very little information is available about ECA in both countries. The study aimed to gather data ... -
Processing limitations in L2 fluency : Analysis of inaccuracies in lexical access
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Oral fluency is widely included in second language assessments, but its relationship to language proficiency is not straightforward. In the current study, data gathered in an experimental setting were examined with an ... -
Language and indigeneity: A mechanism of identity?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Work in indigenous language revitalization often justifies itself along using one of two arguments: the intrinsic good of diversity and the importance of language in constructing indigenous identity. This article examines ... -
Emerged challenges for English education in Japan: The emotional baggage of language learners
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)Although Japanese students study English for 6 years as one of mandatory subjects in secondary school, they often demonstrate little success with it when they enter higher education. Many students come to university with ... -
An evaluation of second language acquisition in postmodern era
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2017)On looking back the history of second language learning (SLA), one can clearly see the shift beginning from structural approaches to cognitive, naturalist, socio-cultural, communicative approaches, then contextualized and ... -
Way better than the original!! Music video covers and language revitalisation : A sociosemiotic view
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)The development of the social media has opened up new spaces and genres for minoritised languages. As argued in previous research, access to new media spaces can contribute to the revitalisation of minoritised languages ... -
Book Review: Michele Schweisfurth, 2013. Learner-Centered Education in International Perspective: Whose pedagogy for whose development? Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York.
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)This book introduces the definition and provenance of LCE and analyses its application and implementation in global, national and local contexts with Bronfenbrenner’s eco-systemic theory and three narratives: cognition, ... -
To dictogloss or not to dictogloss: Potential effects on Jordanian EFL learners’ written performance
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)This study investigates the potential effect of a proposed dictogloss-based program on Jordanian EFL tenth-grade teachers' writing instruction and on their students' writing performance. The participants are 20 Jordanian ... -
Negotiating understandings of language learning with Elli and her parents in their home
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)The relationship between pupils’ in-class and out-of-class language-related, often digital, practices is becoming a central concern in current language education when pedagogic designs are considered. The study looks at a ... -
The planning and building of a new residential community: A discourses survey
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)The study introduces the results of a discourses survey mapping the media content and public views on the emergence of a residential community in a northern Finnish city. Three major discourses were seen to be at play in ... -
Insights into the agency, positioning and development of professional Finnish language skills of international nursing students
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)This article focuses on international students studying in an English-mediated nursing degree program in Finland. From sociocognitive and ecological perspectives, this study examines the development of the students’ ... -
Book review: Kalaja, P., F. Barcelos, A. M., Aro, M., & Ruohotie-Lyhty, M. (2016). Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching.
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)This publication is comprised of seven empirical studies on beliefs, agency and identity as a response to the need for contextual, longitudinal and interconnected studies in foreign language learning and teaching. The ...