Anneli Airola’s research while affiliated with Karelia University of Applied Sciences and other places

... They embed "cultural and social knowledge, historical perspectives and political ideologies" (Curdt-Christiansen & Weninger, 2015, p. 1), and have for long represented an understanding of what constitutes societally legitimate knowledge in education (Curiel & Durán, 2021). Additionally, they have participated in the extramural commodification of education (Kauppinen et al., 2008). Textbooks are extensively researched compared to other materials or artefacts used in the classroom and for learning . ...

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Telepresent Agency: Remote Participation in Hybrid Language Classrooms via a Telepresence Robot

... However, overall in Finnish HE, ESP research has been more active not in universities but in the polytechnics/UASs where the development of vocational and professional language teaching and language learning has been more prominent. In the UAS context, language studies, including ESP studies, have been researched and development work with language requirements conducted by Airola (2009), Airola and Kantelinen (2008;), Kankkunen and Voutilainen (2007), Kantelinen (2007), Kantelinen and Airola (2009) and Rytkönen (2007), with a focus on the English language needs and requirements of UAS students and employers in Finland. Much of the research specifically on English for business purposes or business communication in Finnish HE, as is also the specific focus of this study, has similarly been carried out in a polytechnic/UAS context intended to develop existing ESP/EBP and business English teaching methods through needs analyses and examinations of employer requirements (Airola 2004;Huhta 2010;Louhiala-Salminen 1995;Louhiala-Salminen, Charles & Kankaanranta 2005;Sjöberg 2002). ...

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Recognition and student perceptions of non-formal and informal learning of English for specific purposes in a university context

... The language studies are integrated into the professional subject content. Languages for specific purposes and vocationally oriented language learning form one basis of professional competence, where the content and terminology covered are typical of a particular field (Kantelinen & Airola, 2008), here business administration. The course in question is a mandatory Business English course and the study participants were 22 first-year business administration students at a university of applied sciences. ...

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Enrolled or engaged? Students’ perceptions of engagement and oral interaction in a blended learning language course