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Download full textMeriläinen, Merja; Piispanen, Maarika – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
In the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Compulsory Education (2014), the conception of language is based on the communal and functional linguistics model of language. From the perspectives of teaching and learning, this requires that learning contexts and pedagogies enable learning in such learning environments, roles, and processes where the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authentic Learning, Learning Trajectories, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Meriläinen, Merja; Piispanen, Maarika – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
Early foreign language teaching has recently been made compulsory in Finland, making this an area open to development and innovation where policy-makers and teachers play a significant role in creating new kinds of learning environments, operating cultures, and pedagogy for foreign language learning. This article discusses the early foreign…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Play, Authentic Learning, Second Language Learning
Hahl, Kaisa; Pietarila, Maija – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
The shift to an earlier start in foreign language teaching in Finland took place nationwide in 2020. Both class teachers and subject teachers faced a new situation. They would be teaching children younger than before, or they would be teaching a completely new subject for them. This article examines teachers' conceptions of the skills and…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Content Analysis
Meriläinen, Merja; Piispanen, Maarika – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
Success in an increasingly globalized world sets requirements for versatile communication skills and understanding about other cultures. One of the keys to success is versatile language skills, on which the European Commission spoke out as early as in 1995, recommending that every European citizen should learn two foreign languages in addition to…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Piispanen, Maarika; Meriläinen, Merja – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
This article describes a project called "The art based methods in developing transversal competence" funded by The Finnish National Board of Education. The article is based on the hermeneutic phenomenological approach in action research. The project developed learning environments as well as project-based learning with emphasis on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Art Expression, Art Activities
Özerk, Kamil – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
The prevalence of autism/autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been increasing across the world. Previous studies in Norway reported, that the prevalence rate for 0-10-year-old children is 1 in 166, and in the case of 11-year-old children it is 1 in 125. Moreover, another nationwide study discovered that 1 in 192 males and 1 in 695 females between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence
