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Eva
Malessa

Project Researcher, Digital Language Studies, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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Areas of expertise

Adult education
Adult literacy
Migrant learner population
LESLLA (Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults)
Educational linguistics
Educational technology
Serious games
TELL (technology-equipped learning)
MALL (mobile-assisted language learning)
Usability
Participatory design
Finnish as a second language

Biography

Currently researcher in the SustainLANG-project led by Prof. Minna Maijala.

The SustainLang-project is funded by the Research Council of Finland (2024–2028) and focuses on the 'Implementation of sustainable development goals in language teaching and learning'.

https://sites.utu.fi/sustainlang/en/

Teaching

Second and foreign language (English, Finnish, German) teaching experience in Finland and the United Kingdom.

Research

My main research fields are educational linguistics and technology. Further, I have a strong interdisciplinary research interest in ethics and sustainability. 

Lately, I have been contributing to LESLLA, Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults, research, specializing in technology-mediated initial literacy training and teaching of adult migrants with limited/interrupted educational backgrounds and digital literacy support of adult emergent readers of L2 Finnish. 

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