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Oona Piipponen; Liisa Karlsson; Ritva Kantelinen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper describes the process of developing classroom culture that promotes reciprocal intercultural encountering in the primary school. Storycrafting, an oral storytelling method used for democratic encounters between participants, was used to connect classes in Scotland, Finland and Belgium over three cycles of design-based research.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Intercultural Communication, Story Telling, Elementary School Students
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Mäkinen, Leena; Loukusa, Soile; Nieminen, Lea; Leinonen, Eeva; Kunnari, Sari – First Language, 2014
This study focuses on the development of narrative structure and the relationship between narrative productivity and event content. A total of 172 Finnish children aged between four and eight participated. Their picture-elicited narrations were analysed for productivity, syntactic complexity, referential cohesion and event content. Each measure…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Finno Ugric Languages, Multiple Regression Analysis