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"Vierasta korostusta on niin vähän, että arvaan viro" : yleisten kielitutkintojen suomen kielen arvioijien käsityksiä suomenruotsalaisten puhumasta suomesta (2022)
'There is so little foreign accent that I am guessing Estonian' : The National Certificates Finnish raters’ perceptions of L1 Finland-Swedish speakers’ oral Finnish

Ohranen, S., & Ahola, S. (2022). "Vierasta korostusta on niin vähän, että arvaan viro" : yleisten kielitutkintojen suomen kielen arvioijien käsityksiä suomenruotsalaisten puhumasta suomesta. Lähivõrdlusi-lähivertailuja, 32, 150-180. https://doi.org/10.5128/LV32.05

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All authors or editors: Ohranen, Sari; Ahola, Sari

Journal or series: Lähivõrdlusi-lähivertailuja

ISSN: 1736-9290

eISSN: 2228-3854

Publication year: 2022

Publication date: 31/10/2022

Volume: 32

Pages range: 150-180

Publisher: Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics

Publication country: Estonia

Publication language: Finnish

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5128/LV32.05

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/83954

Abstract

This research studies the perceptions the National Certificates Finnish raters (N = 44) have on L1 Finland-Swedish speakers’ (N = 9) Finnish oral proficiency. The article also examines how the correct or incorrect recognition of the speakers’ L1 affects the raters’ assessments and perceptions of oral language skills. The data comes from the project ‘Broken Finnish’: Accent perceptions in societal gatekeeping in which Finland-Swedish speakers form one of the researched groups. The article examines L1 recognition and the use of the analytical criteria for assessment, by means of quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The qualitative data consist of the raters’ written comments on the speakers’ assumed L1 and of the reasons they give for their assumptions. These are analysed with data driven content analysis.

Keywords: language skills; evaluation; Swedish-speaking Finns; Swedish speakers; Estonian speakers; Estonians; mother tongue; Finnish as a foreign language; pronunciation; language examinations

Free keywords: language assessment; assessment criteria; L1 recognition; Swedish speaking Finns as Finnish speakers; Estonians as Finnish speakers

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Reporting Year: 2022

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