Migrant students in vocational education: Finnish language skills and language ideologies
Main funder
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 4 600,00
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/08/2023
Project end date: 31/05/2024
Summary
In my PhD research, I explore language ideologies – beliefs, understandings, and expectations of language (Blommaert 1999) – related to migrant students’ Finnish language skills in the vocational education and training in Finland, in curriculum texts and in ethnographic interviews and observations. The aim of my research is to develop a more language-aware vocational education and equal worklife on both sides of the Atlantic. My analysis draws on critical linguistic ethnography, critical school ethnography, and discourse analysis (Heller et al. 2018; Lappalainen 2007; Pietikäinen & Mäntynen 2019) and it is part of the Building Blocks: Developing Second Language Resources for Working Life project (PI Suni, Academy of Finland). In the 2023-2024 academic year, I will deepen my understanding of the raciolinguistic dimensions (Flores & Rosa 2015) of these ideologies under the supervision of one of the leading experts in the field as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
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Profiling area: Multiliteracies for social participation and in learning across the life span (University of Jyväskylä JYU) MultiLEAP; 2021-2026. Formerly RECLAS; School of Wellbeing (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Well