Ritva Kantelinen- PhD
- Professor at University of Eastern Finland
Ritva Kantelinen
- PhD
- Professor at University of Eastern Finland
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This study explores self-assessment (SA) practices and perceptions among primary school English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in China. Data were collected through a qualitative web-based questionnaire from 97 EFL teachers in primary public schools across Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Jiangsu. The results indicated a general consensus among teache...
This study investigates parental practices aimed at supporting young learners in foreign language learning across nine diverse countries. Through interviews conducted by international researchers, insights were garnered from 30 participants, exploring the explicit ways in which parents engage in their children's language education. Utilizing qualit...
"The Quality Assurance Guidelines for Sino-Finnish Joint Education Provision is prepared by Sino-Finnish Educational Research Center and Sino-Finnish Double Degree Center, two of the six research centers in the Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute (JoLII). It is an output from the Research Project on Quality Assurance in Joint Degree Pr...
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Purpose:
This paper aims to examine the participation experiences of a sample of Chinese teacher trainees and their Finnish teacher trainer on an in-service teacher training program exported from Finland to Beijing, China.
Design/Approach/Methods:
Six science teachers from Beijing and their Finnish teacher trainer participated in semi-structured in...
This paper describes the process of developing classroom culture that promotes reciprocal intercultural encountering in the primary school. Storycrafting, an oral storytelling method used for democratic encounters between participants, was used to connect classes in Scotland, Finland and Belgium over three cycles of design-based research. Abductive...
This poster which focused on supporting Early Language Education was made by an international group of students studying at the University of Eastern Finland in collaboration with eTwinning TTI initiative. The goal of this project was to find out what kind of hopes, wishes and needs parents have for their children's early language education.
This chapter focuses on describing the issues considered to form the basis for the current quality of foreign language teaching in basic education in Finland. This basis has its cornerstones in research-based teacher education and active networking between the different stakeholders in the field.
This chapter sets out an approach to professional development and team building in a newly established faculty in a Finnish university. A method is given for mapping the academic and professional experiences of eight faculty members across disciplinary boundaries to arrive at a cross-disciplinary framework for collaborative research in multi- and i...
Thanks to globalization and the internationalization of higher education, joint international study programs are growing rapidly. The focus of this chapter is on a Finnish-Russian educational project to design, create, implement, and develop a jointly offered study module called “Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners,” known as TeFoLa (25 EC...
Vocationally oriented language learning (VOLL) is often seen as a part of English for Specific Purposes/Language for Specific
Purposes (ESP/LSP), which it is not in every case. The diverging characteristics and lines of development that these two branches
of ELT have undergone are outlined and contrasted. Then, a discussion of the added value of a...
This article focuses on describing the issues considered to form the basis for the current quality of foreign language teaching in basic education in Finland. This basis has its cornerstones in research-based teacher education and active networking between the different stakeholders in the field. We introduce the main aims and core contents of lang...
The objective of language studies in Finnish polytechnics is to provide the student with language and communication skills which meet the needs of working life and the student's professional development in future. To ensure high quality and to provide uniformity in foreign language education in Rectors' Conference of Finnish Polytechnics has given...
