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Finnish as second language pupils at the mainstream education : assessment as a focus [PDF]
, 2020 Tutkimuksen teemana on opettajien käsitykset suomi toisena kielenä -oppilaiden arvioinnista peruskoulun ala-asteen toisella – kuudennella luokalla.
Kiriama, Aino
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Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
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The Development of Russian Heritage Pupils' Writing Proficiency in Finnish and Russian [PDF]
, 2018 James Cummins has stated that “a cognitively and academically beneficial form of bilingualism can be achieved only on the basis of adequately developed first language (L1) skills” (1979, p. 222).
Nieminen, Lea, Ullakonoja, Riikka
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez +3 more
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Sustainability Orientation and Entrepreneurial Performance in Resource‐Constrained Contexts
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability orientation shapes entrepreneurial performance in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets by theorizing responsible entrepreneurship as a central mechanism and BoP orientation as a contextual contingency. Using survey data from 283 small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana, we integrate perspectives
George Obeng Dankwah +5 more
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From canon to chaos management : blogging as a learning tool in a modern Finnish literature course [PDF]
, 2015 This article is based on the teaching experiment implemented in summer 2013 in a modern Finnish literature course organised by the Centre for International Mobility (CIMO) and the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre.
Vaarala, Heidi +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The socio‐emotional wealth (SEW) perspective suggests that the specific priorities of a family business may make it more or less inclined to engage in sustainable practices. This paper examines how family business heterogeneity regarding family ownership, financial performance, and family board members affects the sustainability commitment of ...
Sonia Sánchez‐Andújar +2 more
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Second Language Conversations Studies of Communication in Everyday Settings [PDF]
'This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of 'non-
Sarangi, Srikant. +3 more
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Understanding second language acquisition in relation to intentionality, epistemology and cognitive processes in an academic context: A realist perspective [PDF]
, 2014 This study investigated the nature of the second language acquisition (SLA) of eight international PhD students that occurred as they undertook the literature review when planning their doctoral research projects at a New Zealand university.
Jeong, Hyeseung
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Impersonal and generic reference: a cross-linguistic look at Finnish and English narratives
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 In linguistic communication, in addition to referring to specific, known referents, we also need to deal with unknown, generic or non-specific referents.
Elsi Kaiser
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