Digital texts for learning Finnish: Shared resources and emerging practices

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dc.contributor.authorJalkanen, Juha
dc.contributor.authorVaarala, Heidi
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-15T18:13:48Z
dc.date.available2013-05-15T18:13:48Z
dc.date.issued2013-02-01
dc.description.abstractRecent studies in the field of new literacies have indicated that a remarkable change in the way we access, consume, and produce information has taken place. The boundaries between concepts such as authorship and ownership have become blurred. This paper will deal with using digital texts in teaching reading comprehension on a university-level course with a special focus on Finnish as a second language. Furthermore, the benefits and challenges of teaching L2 reading comprehension in a multimodal learning environment will be discussed. The three main perspectives utilized are meaningfulness, sharing, and adaptivity. The students attending the course described in the paper were advanced university students from various European countries, who studied Finnish as a second language. The study examines the literacy practices that take place when learners of Finnish as a second language engage in reading and writing blogs in a reading comprehension course. The results of this study indicate that sharing, meaningfulness and adaptivity promote learners’ engagement with reading as a social practice and thus support the claim that using blogs represents opportunities to enhance L2 reading comprehension skills.
dc.format.extent18 pages
dc.identifier.citationJalkanen, J. & Vaarala, H. (2013). Digital texts for learning Finnish: Shared resources and emerging practices. Language Learning & Technology, 17(1), 107–124. http://dx.doi.org/10125/24512
dc.identifier.issn1094-3501
dc.identifier.issn1094-3501
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24512
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.publisherMichigan State University Center for Language Education and Research
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLanguage Learning & Technology, Volume 17, Number 1
dc.subjectDigital Texts
dc.subjectLiteracy
dc.subjectReading
dc.subjectMultilingualism
dc.titleDigital texts for learning Finnish: Shared resources and emerging practices
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage124
prism.number1
prism.publicationnameLanguage Learning & Technology
prism.startingpage107
prism.volume17

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