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

2. 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

3. Official education system

4. (http://www.oph.fi/english/education/overview_of_the_education_system)

5. Statistics on asylum seekers and refugees CountryPositive decisions on asylum / quota refugees 2009 Illiteracy-% of the country Afghanistan24272 Iraq1.023+30126 Somalia1.24185 The Democratic Republic of Congo 29+15114 Nigeria7929 Turkey5313 Iran13018 Positive total1.373+727

6. National languages of Finland (31.12.2009) Inhabitants5.351.427 Finnish 4.852.209 Swedish 290.392 Finnish sign language (about) 5.000 Romany language (about) 4.500 Sami 1.778

7. 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

8. Finnish, a different language Inflection

9. Finnish, a different language Inflection –saapas

10. Finnish, a different language Inflection –saapas a boot

11. Finnish, a different language Inflection –saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots

12. Finnish, a different language Inflection –saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots

13. Finnish, a different language Inflection –saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots Compounding and derivation

14. Finnish, a different language Inflection –saapas paljon saappaita a boot a lot of boots Compounding and derivation –kieli+tarkistaa+ohjelma language+check+programme

15. 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

16. 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

17. Adult education system About 800 institutions + commercial companies Official and liberal education Very variable quality

18. 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?

19. 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

20. 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

21. Guidance for Immigrants and Integration. http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/english/subjects/migration/guidance_for_i mmigrants_and_integration/index.html Ministry of the Interior 2010: Integration. http://www.intermin.fi/intermin/home.nsf/pages/11961B074D927256C 22573B5002CFF39?opendocument Ministry of the Interior 2010: Main focuses of operation. http://www.intermin.fi/intermin/home.nsf/pages/E84B8AE9EE5FB330 C22573B50030D7AB?opendocument PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World – Executive Summary. http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/13/39725224.pdf

22. suomi.fi one address for public services. http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/suomi/tietopaketit/perustietoa_suomesta/v aesto/index.html (only in Finnish)

23. Thank you taina.tammelinlaine@gmail.com