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Chapter 7. OKAY as a response to informings in Finnish [PDF]
This chapter examines the use of the particle OKAY in Finnish as a response to turns that are designed to provide new information. The study focuses on the ways in which the speakers of OKAY orient toward the epistemic character of the informing, and on ...
Koivisto, Aino +3 more
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Speed in cognitive tasks as an indicator of second/foreign language reading and writing skills
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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Meanings Attributed to Literature in Language Education [PDF]
This study examines the meanings attributed to literature in language education by Finnish General Upper Secondary teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
Luukka, Emilia
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Finnish Language Teaching through Improvisation - Conforming the Educational Values within an Improvisational Frame [PDF]
In my article, I examine the moments of gaps or pauses in improvisational scenes used in a Finnish language as a foreign language class. In my research I use different improvisational exercises and techniques (e.g.
Anja Keränen
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Constrained language use in Finnish: A corpus-driven approach [PDF]
It has been suggested that second languages and translated languages are constrained by aninterplay of several linguistic systems. This paper reports on a data-driven quantitativestudy on constrained Finnish.
Ilmari Ivaska, Silvia Bernardini
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Presidential Elections 2012: Candidate Responses to YLE Candidate Selector [PDF]
Yleisradion vaalikoneessa presidenttiehdokkaille esitettiin kaksikymmentä presidenttiyteen, presidentin tehtäviin ja valtaoikeuksiin sekä politiikkaan liittyvää väittämää.
Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) +1 more
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Orienting to the language learner role in multilingual workplace meetings [PDF]
The modern work life is interactionally challenging. For many, work consists of short-term projects executed in transient team combinations. An increasing number of work communities operate in multilingual environments, and many professionals conduct ...
Lehtimaja, Inkeri +5 more
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Opinions on the State of the Finnish Language 2013 [PDF]
Kyselyssä kartoitettiin mielipiteitä erityisesti kirjoitetun mutta myös puhutun kielen käytänteistä. Pääpaino oli julkisessa kielenkäytössä. Kysymykset koskivat mm.
Korhonen, Riitta, Lappalainen, Hanna
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Value as a Basic Concept of Cross-Cultural Researches
The goal of the study is to determine the characteristics of the concept “value” as a key concept in cross-cultural scientific research. This goal is achieved by the authors in two stages.
Albertina G. Ratnikova +1 more
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"Advice, information and safety by means of language: internationally recruited nurses demonstrating their professional Finnish language skills" he focus of this paper is on the professional language used by four internationally educated nurses ...
Marja Seilonen
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