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Paths to Learning Second Languages in Finland [PDF]

Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2020
This article is concerned with comparative approaches to second language instruction and second language choices in Finland and describes the challenge of preserving Finland’s language and culture while facing the globalization process.
Adél Furu
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Språkanvändning och språkval i undervisningen av svenska som det andra inhemska språket: läraruppfattningar om språklig praxis i tre olika lärokurser [PDF]

VAKKI Publications, 2023
In this article, we focus on the language practices of teaching Swedish as second national language in Finnish-medium primary schools. We examine teacher perceptions of the linguistic repertoires of the student group as well as of language use and ...
Sanna Heittola, Siv Björklund, Sofie Henricson   +2 more
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Speed in cognitive tasks as an indicator of second/foreign language reading and writing skills

Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2013
In a cross-sectional study 823 Finnish school children were tested to examine the relation between speed of performance in cognitive and linguistic tasks and second/foreign language reading and writing.
Sanna Olkkonen
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A non-projective greedy dependency parser with bidirectional LSTMs [PDF]

, 2017
The LyS-FASTPARSE team presents BIST-COVINGTON, a neural implementation of the Covington (2001) algorithm for non-projective dependency parsing. The bidirectional LSTM approach by Kipperwasser and Goldberg (2016) is used to train a greedy parser with a ...
Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos, Vilares, David   +1 more
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Äidinkielen ja vieraan kielen opettajien käsityksiä lukustrategioiden opettamisesta ja oppimisesta

Lähivõrdlusi, 2023
"First and second language teachers’ beliefs of teaching and learning reading strategies". In this article, I examine how mother tongue teachers (Finnish, Swedish) and teachers of German as a foreign language in Finland perceive the teaching and ...
Mareen Patzelt
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Language Learning Strategies Use and Challenges Faced by Adult Arab Learners of Finnish as a Second Language in Finland

English Language Teaching, 2017
Adult Arab learners of Finnish as second language (FSL) often encounter communication difficulty when dealing with official documents. They also cannot help their children in their school homework. FSL proficiency is an essential requirement to get an employment and to obtain the Finnish citizenship.
Ahmed H. Naif, Noor Saazai Mat Saad
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Learner Perspective on English Pronunciation Teaching in an EFL Context [PDF]

, 2013
On the basis of the findings, the learners do not seem to have aspirations to native-like pronunciation, but rather aim at achieving intelligible and fluent speech. Only few reported an accent preference (British or American).
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Suomenoppijoiden käsityksiä kolmaspersoonaisten pronominien käytöstä ja puhuttelusta

AFinLA-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 ...
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Suomenoppijoiden toimijuus kotoutumiskoulutuksen yksilöllisissä ratkaisuissa

AFinLAn vuosikirja, 2022
This article examines migrants’ agency related to the individualised and flexible practices available in Integration Training in Finland, with a focus on migrants’ Finnish language learning. The research focused on migrants who have not been studied before, namely those entering training after it had already started.
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Suomen monitahoinen possessiivisuffiksi ja suomenoppija

Lähivõrdlusi, 2010
The article is concerned with the Finnish possessive suffix from the point of view of teaching and learning. First, this suffix and its present-day use are shortly studied. Then, it will be clarifi ed how this suffix is taught in the textbooks of Finnish
Kirsti Siitonen, Manami Mizuno
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