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A Review of Discourse in English Language Education
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)The main theme of this volume is to discuss discourse analysis and familiarize the readers, especially undergraduate students of TESOL and Education, with the main topics in discourse studies. According to Flowerdew, one ... -
Study abroad as a context for spiritual development: Case studies of undergraduates in France
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)In this article, we consider the cases of two American undergraduates, Lola and Audrey1 , who studied abroad for a semester in France. Drawing on interview data collected during their sojourn, we consider their accounts ... -
Communication strategy use by healthcare trainees in monologues and dialogues during strategy training
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2016)The study examined the use of communication strategies in monologues and dialogues by Malaysian healthcare trainees with limited English proficiency during communication strategy training. The training focused on the use ... -
Book Review: Motschenbacher, Heiko. 2013. New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca. North America: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 97890 272 7099.
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)This book studies European ELF for particular and aims to record the hybridity of European ELF within a community of practice where “Europeanness” is expressed during the use of English. Linguistic materials on Eurovision ... -
Holistic perspective on Feedback for adult beginners in an online course of Swedish
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)Although several inquiries highlight the importance of feedback in language teaching and learning, there is a need for knowledge concerning a holistic perspective on feedback in the empirical context of written feedback ... -
Extramural English and academic vocabulary. A longitudinal study of CLIL and non-CLIL students in Sweden
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)n content and language integrated learning (CLIL), where school subjects are taught trough an L2 – in this case English – students often reach higher L2 proficiency levels than students who follow regular education. There ... -
Initial French language teacher education policy in Greece and curriculum evaluation among student teachers of FLE
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)This paper presents initial language teacher education policy adopted in Greece and describes a study which examines student teachers’ of FLE (Français Langue Étrangère) perception of their initial teacher education and ... -
“Does English make you nervous?” Anxiety profiles of CLIL and non-CLIL students in Sweden
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)This study aims to explore the relationship between Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) vs. non-CLIL students and language learning anxiety. As part of a larger research project, this study is conducted at the ... -
Language Ideologies and Learning Historical Minority Languages: A comparative study of voluntary learners of Swedish in Finland and Hungarian in Romania
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)Language ideologies surrounding the learning of historical minority languages deserve more/closer attention because due to the strong nation state ideology, the relation between majority and minority languages has long ... -
On the Conceptual History of the Term Lingua Franca
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)This paper aims to give an outline of the development of the term “Lingua Franca”. Initially the proper name of an extinct pidgin, to “Lingua Franca”, the term has become a common noun, used with regard to language contact ... -
Becoming a Language Teacher: A dream come true or a source of anxiety?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)In this qualitative study the author examined personal narratives written by 14 Finnish speaking student teachers of Swedish, in order to find out what they tell about their thoughts and feelings concerning their future ... -
The management of diversity in schoolscapes: an analysis of Hungarian practices
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)The material environment of formal education (i.e., schoolscape) is determined not only by laws and local regulations, but by the visual practices of the given institution as well. Inscriptions and cultural symbols placed ... -
Multilingual Students´ Self-reported Use of their Language Repertoires when Writing in English
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2015)Recent research suggests that multilingual students tend to use their complete language repertoires, particularly their L1, when writing in a non-native language (e.g. Cenoz & Gorter 2011; Wang 2003). While there is some ... -
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The Use of Partitive Plural Predicatives by Learners of Finnish from Related and Non-related L1 Backgrounds: The same side of a slightly different coin
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The use of the partitive case, a typical case characterizing Finnic languages, remains a constant struggle for learners of Finnish as a foreign language. This paper reports on a study on the (under)use of partitive plural ... -
Frequency Change Patterns across Proficiency Levels in Japanese EFL Learner Speech
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study investigated the overall patterns of variation across seven oral proficiency levels of 1,263 Japanese EFL learners and native English speakers. The methodological approach combined a learner corpus, language ... -
Interrogative Clauses across CEFR Levels in Finnish and Swedish as an L2
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The present study investigates the frequency of three types of interrogative clauses in 329 semi-formal email messages written by language learners of Finnish and of Swedish spoken in Finland. All the written messages were ... -
Using Automatic Morphological Tools to Process Data from a Learner Corpus of Hungarian
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The aim of this article is to show how automatic morphological tools originally used to analyze native speaker data can be applied to process data from a learner corpus of Hungarian. We collected written data from 35 ... -
The Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2): Database and toolkit to study academic learner Finnish
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This paper introduces the Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2), one of the existing corpora of learner Finnish. The corpus was started at the University of Turku in 2007, and the initial motivation for its collection ... -
Establishing a Standardised Procedure for Building Learner Corpora
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Decisions at the outset of preparing a learner corpus are of crucial importance for how the corpus can be built and how it can be analysed later on. This paper presents a generic workflow to build learner corpora while ...