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Suomenoppijoiden käsityksiä kolmaspersoonaisten pronominien käytöstä ja puhuttelusta

open access: yesAFinLA-teema, 2022
My study is a survey that examines how Finnish as a second language speakers understand the use of Finnish pronouns and how to address people. I focus on the informants’ experiences and perspectives with the allocation of the Finnish third-person singular pronouns hän (‘he’ and ‘she’) and se (‘it’) and second-person singular sinä (familiar ‘you’) and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Grey Zone of Stakeholder Engagement: Misalignment as a Manifestation of Greyness in Stakeholder Collaboration

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study identifies and conceptualises the grey zone of stakeholder engagement and explores how it manifests in a collaborative context related to the promotion of a circular economy. While prior research on stakeholder engagement has highlighted the positive, value‐creating bright side or the harmful dark side of stakeholder engagement, we ...
Annika Blomberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increasing fluency in L2 writing with singing

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Fluency is an essential part of a language learner’s skills. Despite various studies on fluency, little is known about the effects of different pedagogical methods on the development of written fluency. In this paper, we examine how different pedagogical
Jenni Alisaari, Leena Maria Heikkola
doaj   +1 more source

Low‐Carbon Energy Transition and Corporate Carbon Emissions: The Critical Role of Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Institutional Context

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the strategic efficacy of corporate low‐carbon energy transition, such as through nuclear energy adoption, as a response to decarbonization pressures. Analyzing an international sample of energy firms, we demonstrate that the relationship between this form of transition and emission reductions is not technologically ...
Bilal Ahmed Abbasi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mathematical skills of children speaking Finnish as a second language in pre-school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää millaiset ovat suomea toisena kielenään puhuvien lasten matemaattiset valmiudet valmistavassa esiopetuksessa ja mitkä tekijät vaikuttavat matemaattisten valmiuksien kehittymiseen.
Kivelä, Laura
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To Be or to Become ‘European’? ‘Westernizing’ Narratives in Post-Cold War Finland [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2009
The Finnish ‘westernizing’ narrative emphasizes Finland’s ‘westernness’, i.e. the idea that Finland and Finns have always been western and part of the ‘European family’. The recent past is not seen as an obstacle for this interpretation.
Elena Dragomir
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Book museum or museum of the book?

open access: yesKnygotyra, 2003
In Finland, the debate about the need for a book museum was kindled in the mid-1990s. Vammala won the competition by abandoning the traditional museum idea and deciding to establish a more extensive institute and foundation to manage it, the Foundation ...
Marja-Liisa Ronkko
doaj   +1 more source

Initiating Market Formation Through Local Policy Innovation: Plot Handover as a Driver for Circular Construction

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to circular construction suffers from uncertainties related to costs, market realities, supply, regulations and expertise using secondary materials in building projects. Uncertainties are large, and resolving them needs policy interventions.
Erkki‐Jussi Nylén, Tommi Halonen
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Identity Work and Interculturality during Blue-Collar Work Practice Abroad : Finnish Engineering Students as Language Learners and Users [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter addresses foreign language learners’ and users’ discursive identity work and interculturality in the context of blue-collar work practice abroad. It focuses on Finnish engineering students who were working in Germany with the aim of learning
Räisänen, Tiina, Tiina Räisänen
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Ylioppilaslehti and the University’s Language Struggle in the 1920’s and the 1930’s

open access: yesKasvatus & Aika, 2009
A new Universities Act was a current topic in 1922, just as it is today. The most essential part in the reform concerned the language of education, Swedish and/or Finnish.
Jukka Kortti
doaj  

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