Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies: viimeksi lisätyt
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Converging Perspectives in the LESLLA Context
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)There has been a surge in Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition (LESLLA) learners in adult language programs. In response to the growth of this learner population in language classes, there has been increased ... -
What Doesn’t Work for the Lowest Level Literacy Learners and Why?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)Traditional approaches for teaching reading to Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition (LESLLA) adults are problematic because foundational learning and cognitive areas are generally underdeveloped in these ... -
Grappling with the Oral Skills: The learning processes of the low-educated adult second language and literacy learner
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2013)This paper focuses on the learning processes in L2 literacy classes in the Netherlands, discussing specifically possible influences of the learning processes during the practice of the oral skills. To achieve a better ... -
If You Get Double the Time: Teaching practices in the “Swedish/English” language subject option in Swedish nine-year compulsory schooling
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)In Swedish nine-year compulsory schooling, all students are supposed to learn English and at least one additional language, i.e., French, Spanish, or German. As a final option, extra Swedish and/or English classes, often ... -
Acquisition of French as a Second Language: Do developmental stages correlate with CEFR levels?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)This paper contributes to an assessment of the role of grammatical knowledge in the definition of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) levels of reference and to a discussion of the relation of the knowledge ... -
Editorial
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Content Domain and Language Competence in Computer-mediated Conversation for Learning
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)This study addresses the issue of interactional dominance in Teletandem conversations, in which two speakers communicate via video calls and chat and alternatively use their L2, the latter being the native language of the ... -
Similarities between Playing World of Warcraft and CLIL
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)This article argues that playing World of Warcraft (WoW) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) have a number of similar features. We base our argument on findings from three studies. The first (Sylvén 2004/2010) ... -
Teacher-researchers Exploring Design-based Research to Develop Learning Designs in Higher Education Language Teaching
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)Due to constant changes and developments of the 21st century societies and working life, the environments in which learning takes place have changed. Novel ways to research learning in those environments and to explore how ... -
New Challenges to Motivate Remedial EFL Students to Read Extensively
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)Although one of the keys to improving language ability lies in the continuous and prolonged exposure to the target language, providing learners with the opportunities in the EFL environment is not easy. For Japanese learners ... -
In Search of Lost Language: A longitudinal study into trainee teacher motivation and the reactivation of lapsed language skills
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)Trainee language teachers require a high standard of subject knowledge for their intense training programme and frequently find it difficult to balance the need to maintain their language proficiency with the more urgent ... -
The Complexity of Learner Agency
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)Successful language learning depends crucially on the activity and initiative of the learner (van Lier 2008: 163). However, before a learner engages their agentic resources and chooses to exercise their agency in a particular ... -
The Influence of Goal Orientation, Past Language Studies, Overseas Experiences, and Gender Differences on Japanese EFL Learners’ Beliefs, Anxiety, and Behaviors
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)The purpose of this study was to examine how Japanese students’ past language studies, in formal classroom settings during their elementary school years and their overseas experiences before entering university, affected ... -
Language students and emerging identities
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)The aim of our article is to study written narratives as a way of expressing emerging identities as second language (L2) users. We compare narratives written by Finnish students of Swedish during their first semester (24 ... -
The English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey: Finland
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)This paper reports on the findings of the English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey (EPTiES), concentrating on responses from EFL teachers working in Finland (n=103). The survey was designed to gain research-based ... -
Book review: Varcasia, Cecilia (ed.). 2011. Becoming multilingual: Language learning and language policy between attitudes and identities. Oxford: Peter Lang.
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)This is a review of Becoming multilingual: Language learning and language policy between attitudes and identities (Varcasia, Cecilia (ed.). 2011) -
“Stories from No-Man’s Land?” Situated language learning through the use of role models in the context of international Higher Education
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2012)This article discusses the value of role models in the language acquisition process of international students following an English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) programme in the Netherlands. Narrative interpretations of ... -
Editorial : Multiple localities and the energizing English in language education policies
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English as a lingua franca – a native-culture-free code? Language of communication vs. language of identification
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2011)English has become the dominant means of international communication. Its non-native speakers now far outnumber the conventional native speakers in the UK, the USA, Canada etc. Against this background, a number of authors ... -
Language Education Policy in England : Is English the elephant in the room?
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2011)This paper offers a critical review of language education policies and the state of language education in England over the last decade (2000-2010), which has been characterised by a bewildering array of initiatives to ...