Eva Malessa

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LinkedIn address: https://fi.linkedin.com/in/eva-m

ResearchGate address: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva-Malessa

ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2344-7553

General description

2019- Exploring technology-enhanced initial literacy training and teaching of adult migrants with limited/interrupted educational backgrounds. Focusing on gamified digital literacy support of adult emergent readers of L2 Finnish (Doctoral study).

2018-2019 Working as a project researcher in the AllRead team (https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/solki/en/research/research-projects/allread-the-digital-environment-grapholearn-for-supporting-reading-development)

2018- Contact person of the Language Campus Blood(Donor)Group

Active JYU affiliations

Centre for Applied Language Studies, Grant Researcher
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doctoral Student

Previous, inactive or other affiliations

Centre for Applied Language Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Doctoral Researcher, Ended
Centre for Applied Language Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Project Researcher, Ended

Research interests

Co-design focused, participatory approach to exploring a digital literacy support serious game with Finnish language and literacy teachers of adult migrants with limited/interrupted formal education experience

To produce empirical evidence, this study was initially designed as an efficacy study including field-testing of a research test version of a literacy support game app originally designed for Finnish first/second language children, with adult migrants. Experimental field-testing of with adult literacy learners was planned for 2020.
Due to the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not possible to carry out the classroom-based testing,
Realizing the potential of participatory design with teachers, I turned my research focus towards a participatory, re-design approach with in-service Finnish language and literacy teachers who tested, evaluated and re-designed a research version of the literacy support app 'Professori Pörröpää ja Lukukupla' developed by the AllRead research project team at the University of Jyväskylä.

Fields of science

Personal keywords

Adult Education; Migrant learner; LESLLA; Educational Technology; Serious Games; TELL; MALL; Usability; Participatory Design; Finnish as a second language; Literacy