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Teaching illiterate adults – a new challenge in Finland

Teaching illiterate adults – a new challenge in Finland. Contents of the presentation. Finnish official education system Immigrants in Finland Some special features of Finnish My PhD research in a nutshell Finnish educational system for adult immigrants. Official education system.

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Teaching illiterate adults – a new challenge in Finland

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  1. Teaching illiterate adults – a new challenge in Finland Taina Tammelin-Laine LESLLA, Cologne 28.8.2010

  2. Contents of the presentation • Finnish official education system • Immigrants in Finland • Some special features of Finnish • My PhD research in a nutshell • Finnish educational system for adult immigrants

  3. Official education system

  4. Official education system (http://www.oph.fi/english/education/overview_of_the_education_system)

  5. Statistics on asylum seekers and refugees

  6. National languages of Finland (31.12.2009) Inhabitants 5.351.427 • Finnish 4.852.209 • Swedish 290.392 • Finnish sign language (about) 5.000 • Romany language (about) 4.500 • Sami 1.778

  7. The most common new languages (31.12.2009) about 60 languages • Russian 51.683 • Estonian 25.096 • English 12.063 • Somali 11.681 • Arabic 9.682

  8. Finnish, a different language • Inflection

  9. Finnish, a different language • Inflection • saapas

  10. Finnish, a different language • Inflection • saapas a boot

  11. Finnish, a different language • Inflection • saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots

  12. Finnish, a different language • Inflection • saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots

  13. Finnish, a different language • Inflection • saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots • Compounding and derivation

  14. Finnish, a different language • Inflection • saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots • Compounding and derivation • kieli+tarkistaa+ohjelma language+check+programme

  15. Finnish, a different language • Inflection • saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots • Compounding and derivation • kieli+tarkistaa+ohjelma kielentarkistusohjelma language+check+programme proof-reading programme

  16. Adult illiterate immigrants and the early stage learning process of Finnish language PhD thesis 4 informants Focus on vocabulary, phrases, constructions and communication strategies Data collection: Observation, notes, recordings and interviews The aim: to provide information for different kinds of use

  17. Adult education system About 800 institutions + commercial companies Official and liberal education Very variable quality

  18. Educational system for adult immigrants • Constitution • Law on the integration of immigrants • Quality of the language courses? • Supervision, legislation • Integration training = labour force training • What about illiterate housewives and elderly?

  19. The Ministry of the Interior immigration units in the Centers for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment local Employment and Economic Development Offices municipalities housewives associations elderly church job-seekers Figure: Educational system for (illiterate) adult immigrants

  20. References Aro, Mari 2009: Speakers and Doers. Polyphony and Agency in Children’s Beliefs about Language Learning. Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities 116. https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/bitstream/handle/123456789/ 19882/9789513935320.pdf?sequence=1 Finnish immigration service: Statistics on asylum and refugees. http://www.migri.fi/netcomm/content.asp?article=3127&language=EN Finnish Public Library Statistics. http://tilastot.kirjastot.fi/engb/basicstatistics.aspx?AreaKey=Y2009T1N1

  21. Guidance for Immigrants and Integration. http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/english/subjects/migration/guidance_for_immigrants_and_integration/index.html Ministry of the Interior 2010: Integration. http://www.intermin.fi/intermin/home.nsf/pages/11961B074D927256C22573B5002CFF39?opendocument Ministry of the Interior 2010: Main focuses of operation. http://www.intermin.fi/intermin/home.nsf/pages/E84B8AE9EE5FB330C22573B50030D7AB?opendocument PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World – Executive Summary. http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/13/39725224.pdf

  22. suomi.fi one address for public services. http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/suomi/tietopaketit/perustietoa_suomesta/vaesto/index.html (only in Finnish)

  23. Thank you taina.tammelinlaine@gmail.com

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