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

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

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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Statistics on asylum seekers and refugees CountryPositive decisions on asylum / quota refugees 2009 Illiteracy-% of the country Afghanistan24272 Iraq Somalia The Democratic Republic of Congo Nigeria7929 Turkey5313 Iran13018 Positive total

National languages of Finland ( ) Inhabitants Finnish Swedish Finnish sign language (about) Romany language (about) Sami 1.778

The most common new languages ( ) about 60 languages Russian Estonian English Somali 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+ohjelmakielentarkistusohjelma language+check+programmeproof-reading programme

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

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 / pdf?sequence=1 Finnish immigration service: Statistics on asylum and refugees. Finnish Public Library Statistics.

Guidance for Immigrants and Integration. mmigrants_and_integration/index.html Ministry of the Interior 2010: Integration B5002CFF39?opendocument Ministry of the Interior 2010: Main focuses of operation. C22573B50030D7AB?opendocument PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World – Executive Summary.

suomi.fi one address for public services. aesto/index.html (only in Finnish)

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