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Too Dark to Support the Lions, But Light Enough for the Frontlines”: Negotiating Race, Place, and Nation in Afro-Finnish Hip Hop

Open Cultural Studies, 2019
In this article, I examine cultural production as an avenue for mapping African diasporic identities and racialised experiences in Finland. Hip hop culture has long acted as a lingua franca for the African diaspora and has been central in the development
Kelekay Jasmine Linnea
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Building a culture of assessment in the speech of Finnish as a second language teachers

Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies
This study examines the construction of an assessment culture in the discourse of teachers of Finnish as a second language and literature at the broad level of the work community. The research material consists of thematic interviews conducted in 2021 (N=9). The interviews have been analyzed by means of interpretative discourse analysis.
Vesaranta, Helena, Vesaranta, Helena
openaire   +3 more sources

COX14 Variants Are Associated With Mitochondrial Complex IV Deficiency Nuclear Type 10 (MC4DN10)

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT COX14 encodes a transmembrane protein essential for cytochrome c oxidase (COX) complex assembly. A homozygous missense variant in COX14 was reported in three siblings from a single consanguineous family with severe, fatal infantile mitochondrial complex IV deficiency nuclear type 10 (MC4DN10; MIM# 619053).
Elias K. Awad, Emily Waskow, Hari Tunuguntla, Joseph Spinner, Hanna J. Tadros, Lisa T. Emrick, Daniel G. Calame, Fernando Scaglia   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complexity and interaction: comparing the development of L1 and L2

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011
In research into first and second language development, the focus has mainly been either on the formal features of learner language alone (both L1 and L2) or on the interaction between learners and their caretakers (L1) or native speaker peers (L2).These
Minna Suni, Lea Nieminen
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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parsing Ability and Reading Comprehension in a Second Language: Are the Two Related? [PDF]

, 1986
Many studies of reading comprehension have dealt with how a text's syntax and semantics interfere with or assist the reader in getting meaning. These effects have typically been observed in the product of the reading process, reading comprehension ...
Day, Dennis
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Step2Job – akateemisten S2-oppijoiden kielitaitoa kehittämässä [PDF]

VAKKI Publications, 2019
As part of the Step2Job project (2016–2019), the Language Centre of the University of Lapland developed and piloted a language teaching model implemented in an e-learning environment and particularly designed for immigrants with a higher education ...
Sinikka Vuonokari-Kämäräinen, Maija Paatero   +1 more
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Yhteistyön mahdollisuudet – lukiokoulutukseen valmistava koulutus kielellistyvässä maailmassa

Lähivõrdlusi, 2018
Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään sitä, millaisia käsityksiä rehtoreilla, opettajilla ja opiskelijoilla on vuorovaikutuksen mahdollistavasta toiminnasta eli yhteistyöstä Lukiokoulutukseen valmistavan koulutuksen (LUVA) ja muun lukiotoiminnan välillä ...
Heidi Vaarala
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To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen, Edward J. O'Connor, Megan Rebuli, Tiana Thorne, Naomi Kakoschke, Ray Mahoney   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Group Work, Interlanguage Talk and Second Language Acquisition [PDF]

, 1985
The use of group work in classroom second language learning has long been supported by sound pedagogical arguments. Recently, however, a psycholinguistic rationale for group work has emerged from second language acquisition research on nonnative speaker ...
Long, Michael, Porter, Patricia
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