To launch his PhD project “When are plural forms in the Finnish language taught at the beginner level – and when should they actually be taught?”, Daniel Halonen will give a presentation on the topic of Finnish grammar in teaching and learning. Excerpts of data will be discussed together with a commentary by a guest lecturer Ilmari Ivaska. Halonen's presentation will be in Finnish.

Associate Professor Ilmari Ivaska (University of Turku) will give a guest lecture with the title "The non-linear relationship between motivation to learn a foreign language and to actually learn it: Future language selves among North American students of Nordic languages". The guest lecture will be in English.

The Zoom-link will be published here shortly before the seminar.

Programme

10:00 Introduction
10:15 Ilmari Ivaska: "The non-linear relationship between motivation to learn a foreign language and to actually learn it: Future language selves among North American students of Nordic languages" (in English)
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Daniel Halonen: “When are plural forms in the Finnish language taught at the beginner level – and when should they actually be taught?” (in Finnish)
13:15 Discussion
14:30 Coffee

Tervetuloa! Välkommen! Welcome!