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EFL Teacher Trainees’ Attitudes and Experiences Considering the Use of Digital Learning Games: A Survey-based Study
(2022-05-09)
This Master’s thesis examined the attitudes and experiences that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher trainees in Finland had about the use of digital learning games in L2 teaching and learning. ICT is nowadays ...
Willingness to Communicate in L2 English Remote Language Learning: Dual Qualification Students’ Perceptions
(2022-05-16)
This thesis investigated willingness to communicate (WTC) among dual qualification students learning English as a second language (ESL) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The aim of the present study was to discover how ...
Work Under the Façade of Mainstream Discourse : Defining Work with George Orwell, Hannah Arendt, Bertrand Russell and David Graeber
(2021-04-27)
In this thesis I analyze how work is defined by George Orwell, Hannah Arendt, Bertrand Russell and David Graeber in their texts selected for this thesis. Work is commonly thought with certain assumptions that seem common-sense ...
Käännösvertailu Anne of Green Gables -romaanin suomennoksen alkuperäisestä (1920) ja uudistetusta (1961) versiosta käännösten uudelleenmuokkauksen näkökulmasta
(2022-04-29)
Tutkielman aihe on käännösten uudelleenmuokkaus ja korjaaminen (ks. Koskinen ja Paloposki 2015), jota tutkin vertailemalla kahta L. M. Montgomeryn vuonna 1908 julkaistusta Anne of Green Gables -romaanista tehtyä Annan ...
“Dreams are not for people who look like you” : The social construction of Black girlhood in Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn
(2022-05-10)
This thesis examines the social construction of Black girlhood in the novel Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (2016). It focuses on analysing the main character’s coming-of-age experience, viewing Black girlhood as a ...
Piiraccaperä vai Piirackaworo? : Vanhahtavan kielen kääntäminen Terry Pratchettin ja Neil Gaimanin romaanin Good Omens kahdessa suomennoksessa
(2022-05-09)
Tutkimuksen aiheena on Terry Pratchettin ja Neil Gaimanin romaani Good Omens ja sen kaksi suomennosta, vuonna 1992 ilmestynyt Marja Sinkkosen suomentama ensimmäinen käännös Hyviä enteitä ja vuonna 2020 ilmestynyt Mika ...
Assessing the Role of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Reading Comprehension : A Quantitative Study of Finnish EFL Learners
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-10-25)
In this MA thesis, Finnish learners of English were studied in order to examine the relationship between second language vocabulary size, vocabulary depth, and reading comprehension. In addition, given the well-established ...
Murteiden kääntäminen Mark Twainin romaanin Adventures of Huckleberry Finn kolmessa uudelleensuomennoksessa
(2020-04-28)
Tässä tutkielmassa käsitellään Mark Twainin teoksen Adventures of Huckleberry Finn murrepiirteiden kääntämistä eriaikaisissa uudelleensuomennoksissa. Tutkimusaineistona on Kivimiehen suomennos vuodelta 1927, Laineen suomennos ...
If it Weighs as Much as a Duck, it’s Made of Wood, and Therefore a Witch : Direct and Indirect Accusations of Witchcraft in Depositions of the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
(2019-05-21)
The material for this thesis comes from the original depositions that have survived from the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. The aim of the thesis is to show that the depositions contain both direct and indirect accusations ...
Finnish Advanced EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Connotations in English
(2019-05-10)
Connotation is a word’s additional meaning or mental association and it can be perceived as positive, neutral, or negative. In the present study, connotations were looked at in terms of emotional charge, associations or ...