Opening seminar: Teaching and learning grammar – Finnish as a second or foreign language
Seminar
Date: Friday 4 October 2024
Time: 10.00 – 15.00
Location: E509, Södra huset, and Zoom
Daniel Halonen presents his newly started PhD project that focuses on teaching and learning Finnish grammar in a non-Finnish context. Guest lecturer and commentator is Ilmari Ivaska, Associate Professor at University of Turku.
To launch his PhD project “When are plural forms in the Finnish language taught at the beginner level – and when should they actually be taught?”, Daniel Halonen will give a presentation on the topic of Finnish grammar in teaching and learning. Excerpts of data will be discussed together with a commentary by a guest lecturer Ilmari Ivaska. Halonen's presentation will be in Finnish.
Associate Professor Ilmari Ivaska (University of Turku) will give a guest lecture with the title "The non-linear relationship between motivation to learn a foreign language and to actually learn it: Future language selves among North American students of Nordic languages". The guest lecture will be in English.
Programme
10:00 Introduction
10:15 Ilmari Ivaska: "The non-linear relationship between motivation to learn a foreign language and to actually learn it: Future language selves among North American students of Nordic languages" (in English)
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Daniel Halonen: “When are plural forms in the Finnish language taught at the beginner level – and when should they actually be taught?” (in Finnish)
13:15 Discussion
14:30 Coffee
Tervetuloa! Välkommen! Welcome!
Last updated: October 4, 2024
Source: Section for Finnish