Language Campus news

On Wednesday 8 February, the City of Jyväskylä awarded local event and congress organizers.

The Rector of the University of Jyväskylä, Keijo Hämäläinen, has named Suvi Saarikallio to the professorship from 1 December 2022.

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MA Sonya Sahradyan defends her doctoral dissertation in Subject “Personal and institutional trajectories of language, employment and integration: An ethnography with migrant NGO practitioners".

The aim of this PhD thesis, to be examined at the University of Jyväskylä, was to investigate whether a game-based phonics intervention can effectively support children's English literacy learning in multilingual India.

Rector of the University of Jyväskylä Keijo Hämäläinen has appointed Sigurd D’hondt as professor as of 1 August 2022. The professorship is in the field of applied linguistics, and it is placed in the Department of Language and Communication Studies.

Rector Keijo Hämäläinen has approved the appointment of Research Professor Taina Saarinen as the director of the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER).

Care and Reading Dogs work on campus in order to enhance student wellbeing.

Education at JYU among the best of the world.
JYU’s research in education ranked 44th in the Shanghai Ranking.

MA Rauha Salam defends her doctoral dissertation in Subject "Constructing Gender Identities Multimodally: Young, middle-class Pakistanis on Facebook".

The Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnership project “Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities: Speaking Romani at School” (December 2019–May 2022) has just published online materials for pre- and in-service teacher education.

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