Afinlandia Awards 2022
AFinLA (Association Finlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée) awards the Afinlandia prize annually for a distinguished Master’s thesis, and every three years fo
Afinlandia Awards
Afinlandia award 2022: Call for nominations
The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics, AFinLA, is inviting nominations for the Afinlandia Award 2022 in the Master’s thesis series and the doctoral
Afinlandia Award 2021 to MA Anni Hintikka
AFinLA (Association Finlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée) awards the Afinlandia prize annually for a distinguished Master’s thesis, and every three years fo
Afinlandia Award 2021 call for nominations
The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics, AFinLA, is inviting nominations for the Afinlandia Award 2021 in the Master’s thesis series
Afinlandia Award 2020 to MA Karoliina Möttönen
This year the awardee is Karoliina Möttönen. In addition to the Afinlandia Award presented, AFinLA also wishes to recognize three Master’s thesis with an honorable mention.
Afinlandia 2020: MA Karoliina Möttönen's abstract
The thesis is an ethnographic case study on language policy and language ideologies in a multilingual Sweden Finnish secondary school. This study aims to examine how the language policy of the school community is depicted in the descriptions of its members. Moreover, the study analyses what kinds of language ideologies can be read from these descriptions.
Afinlandia Award 2020 call for nominations
The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics, AFinLA, is inviting nominations for the Afinlandia Award 2020 in the Master’s thesis series. The award is presented for a thesis written in Finland within the field of applied linguistics. We now wish to invite colleagues active in the field of applied linguistics to nominate highly qualified theses for the prize.
Afinlandia 2019: MA Hoa Nguyen's abstract
My MA thesis investigates English shaming in the context of Vietnam. More specifically, it aims to examine how Vietnamese YouTube users, by responding to a video of a Vietnamese beauty queen speaking in what is deemed “bad” English, articulate the existing local ideologies surrounding English in an era of globalization.
Afinlandia 2019: PhD. Maiju Strömmer's abstract
This dissertation focuses on Finnish language learning opportunities in cleaning work, which is the most common job for immigrants in Finland.
Afinlandia awards 2019 to PhD. Maiju Strömmer and MA Hoa Nguyen
This year the Afinlandia award in the Doctoral thesis series examinesFinnish language learning opportunities in cleaning work. The awarded Master’s thesis examines language shaming practices on YouTube and the ideologies of English in Vietnam.