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Pupillary responses to affective words in bilinguals' first versus second language. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Late bilinguals often report less emotional involvement in their second language, a phenomenon called reduced emotional resonance in L2. The present study measured pupil dilation in response to high- versus low-arousing words (e.g., riot vs.
Wilhelmiina Toivo, Christoph Scheepers
doaj   +3 more sources

The citizen's perception of a shared responsibility during the COVID-19 management: Insights from a focus group study across four European countries. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Background The World Health Organisation emphasises the importance of a whole-of-society approach to the management of health emergencies, which includes a need to involve citizens.
Kengne Kamga LS   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Intermarriage and Segmented Integration into Finnish Society: Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union

open access: yesFinnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2003
The number of immigrants is still very small in Finland. Until the l 990s immigrants came to Finland in small numbers, mostly as a consequence of marriage.
Anni Jääskeläinen
doaj   +2 more sources

Increasing fluency in L2 writing with singing [PDF]

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   +4 more sources

The dynamics of foreign versus second language development in Finnish writing

open access: closed, 2014
Deze studie vanuit een dynamisch perspectief onderzoekt de ontwikkeling van acht beginnende leerders Fins als vreemde (VT; Nederland; focus: grammatica) en tweede (T2; Finland; focus: communicatie) taal. De studie onderzoekt variabelen die syntactische en morfologische complexiteit en accuraatheid uitdrukken in geschreven data en bekijkt verschillen in
Corinne Tilma
openalex   +4 more sources

Vironkielisten osallistujien kielitaito Yleisten kielitutkintojen suomen kielen testissä

open access: yesLähivõrdlusi, 2021
Tarkastelemme tässä artikkelissa vironkielisten suomen oppijoiden osallistumista Suomen kansallisen kielitestin, Yleisten kielitutkintojen, keskitason tutkintoon ja heidän kielitaitoprofiiliaan tutkintotulosten valossa.
Mari Honko, Sari Ahola, Tuija Hirvelä
doaj   +1 more source

Which User Interaction for Cross-Language Information Retrieval? Design Issues and Reflections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
A novel and complex form of information access is cross-language information retrieval: searching for texts written in foreign languages based on native language queries.
Baker   +42 more
core   +5 more sources

“We should understand something before we can use the new language.” : adult learners’ perspectives on multilingualism in Finnish as a second language teaching

open access: closed, 2018
This study explores adult learners’ perspectives on multilingualism in Finnish as a second language teaching. Multilingualism emphasises the contextual variety of language resources that is available to a language user. In the context of language learning, multilingual resources can benefit the process of learning a new language.
Silja Heikinheimo
openalex   +2 more sources

More on the question of functions of contact verbs in Russian and Finnish spontaneous speech (based on usage of verbs katsoa and (po)smotret)

open access: yes, 2021
The paper considers the issue of functions of so-called contact verbs smotret in Russian language and katsoa in Finnish in spontaneous speech. These verbs are also classified as pragmatems, i. e. linguistic units which to a large extent have lost lexical
N. Osmak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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