Eleven papers from the Finnish Association of Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) Symposium held at the University of Joensuu in November 1986, and three additional solicited papers are presented in this collection. The theme of the symposium was "language learning materials and language in learning materials." All but two of the papers are in…

Ten years of intensive research and development in foreign language teaching in Finland have resulted in a foreign language curriculum with a communicative orientation and textbooks to accompany it. Another outcome of this work was a realization of the complexity of language teaching, which led to models of the language teaching process. One such…

This thesis describes a project to design a primary school physics learning environment which takes into account teachers' needs, design procedures, properties of the learning environment, and pupil learning outcomes. The project's design team has wide experience in research and development work in relation to science education, the use of ICT in…