Teaching illiterate adults – a new challenge in Finland
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Teaching illiterate adults – a new challenge in Finland
Taina Tammelin-Laine LESLLA, Cologne 28.8.2010
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
Official education system
(http://www.oph.fi/english/education/overview_of_the_education_system)
Statistics on asylum seekers and refugees
Country Positive decisions on asylum / quota refugees 2009
Illiteracy-% of the country
Afghanistan 242 72
Iraq 1.023+301 26
Somalia 1.241 85
The Democratic Republic of Congo
29+151 14
Nigeria 79 29
Turkey 53 13
Iran 130 18
Positive total 1.373+727
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
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
Finnish, a different language
Inflection
Finnish, a different language
Inflection– saapas
Finnish, a different language
Inflection– saapas
a boot
Finnish, a different language
Inflection– saapas paljon saappaita
a boot a lot of boots
Finnish, a different language
Inflection– saapas paljon saappaita
a boot a lot of boots
Finnish, a different language
Inflection– saapas paljon saappaita
a boot a lot of boots
Compounding and derivation
Finnish, a different language
Inflection– saapas paljon saappaita
a boot a lot of boots
Compounding and derivation– kieli+tarkistaa+ohjelma
language+check+programme
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
Adult illiterate immigrants and the early stage learning process of
Finnish languagePhD 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
Adult education system
About 800 institutions + commercial companies
Official and liberal education
Very variable quality
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?
Figure: Educational system for (illiterate) adult immigrants
The Ministry of the Interior
immigration units in the Centers for Economic
Development, Transport and the Environment
local Employment and Economic Development
Offices
church
associations
municipalities
elderly
job-seekers
housewives
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
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
suomi.fi one address for public services.
http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/suomi/tietopaketit/perustietoa_suomesta/vaesto/index.html (only in Finnish)
Thank you