top of page
Outputs
LAIF in Action: Publications, Talks & Presentations
LAIF Outputs
November 2025
Opinion piece in Helsingin Sanomat Newspaper in Helsinki, Finland. Elizabeth Peterson, Katariina Pyykkö, Laura Hekanaho, Erja Kilpeläinen, and Marika Hall : "Suomen kielen muuttumista ei kannata pelätä" (There's no reason to be afraid of the Finnish language changing)
Conference presentation at The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) Annual Symposium in Joensuu, Finland. Erja Kilpeläinen: "Suomea toisena kielenä käyttävät opettajat perusopetuksessa: monikielisyyteen ja pedagogisiin käytänteisiin liittyvät kieli-ideologiat" (Teachers using Finnish as a second language in basic education: language ideologies related to multilingualism and pedagogical practices)
Conference presentation at The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) Annual Symposium in Joensuu, Finland. Katariina Pyykkö & Marika Hall: "Työpaikkojen kielipolitiikkaa maahanmuuttaneiden aikuisten raportoimana: toimijat, toiminta ja argumentaatio" (Language policies in workplaces as reported by immigrant adults: actors, practices, and argumentation)
Keynote speech "The Devitalization of English in the Nordic Countries" at AFinLA 2025 by Elizabeth Peterson. Click here to see the slides.
September 2025
Conference presentation at Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity (AMLI) 2025 Conference in Liverpool, England. Katariina Pyykkö: "Responsibilities and language ideologies in migrant adults' accounts of workplace language policy in Finland"
August 2025
Conference presentation at International Society for the Linguistics of English Conference (isLE8) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Elizabeth Peterson and Marika Hall: "The mother of the country doesn’t even speak Finnish: The changing role of English and its relationship to the national languages of Finland"
June 2025
​Språkbruk article by Elizabeth Peterson: "Tummar svenskspråkiga i Finland för mycket på sitt modersmål?"
January 2025
Katariina Pyykkö and Elizabeth Peterson hosted the Swearing in Scandinavia Research Group for SwiSca9 conference at the University of Helsinki.
Conference presentation at SwiSca9. Helsinki. Olli Kuparinen (Tampere University),
Elizabeth Peterson (University of Jyväskylä), Johanna Vaattovaara (Tampere University). "Perceptual view on the social structures of the English borrowing “oh my god” in Finnish"
November 2024
Conference presentation at Työelämän tutkimuspäivät 2024 (Working Life Research Days), Tampere. Katariina Pyykkö: "Korkeakoulutetut maahanmuuttaneet suomalaisilla työpaikoilla: toimivia kielikäytänteitä etsimässä" (Highly Educated Immigrants in Finnish Workplaces: Searching for Effective Language Practices)
Conference presentation at AFinLA's Annual Symposium. Katariina Pyykkö: "Tensions Between Skills, Needs and Daily Practices: Experiences of Academically Trained Migrants with Language Policy in Finnish Workplaces"
October 2024
Presentation at the Young Researchers' Evening, Helsinki. Katariina Pyykkö: "Ristiriitoja tarpeiden ja toiminnan välillä – Korkeakoulutettujen maahanmuuttaneiden aikuisten kokemuksia kielikäytänteistä suomalaisilla työpaikoilla"
August 2024
Keynote speech by Elizabeth Peterson at the English as a Lingua Nordica (ELN) 2024 conference
June 2024
Conference presentation at Finsse-11: Sustainability of English studies, University of Helsinki. Laura Hekanaho: "Attitudes towards English in Finland."
June 2024
Conference presentation at Finsse-11: Sustainability in English studies, University of Helsinki. Katariina Pyykkö: "Academically trained migrants navigating multilingual workplaces in Finland".
January 2024
Poster presentation at the 2024 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York. Poster presented by Elizabeth Peterson.
2023
Presentation at the "Kielitietoisuus sosiaali- ja terveysalalla: tietoa, käytäntöjä ja kysymyksiä työyhteisössä" seminar, Abå Akatemi. Katariina Pyykkö: "Monikieliset työyhteisöt puhututtavat – esimerkkejä yrityskoulutuksista ja kielitaidon kehittymisestä työyhteisössä" (Multilingual workplaces spark discussion – examples from corporate training and language skill development within the work community)
2023
Presentation at the "Miten Suomi puhuu" Seminar, University of Oulu. Elizabeth Peterson and Katariina Pyykkö: "LAIF 2023-2026. Kieliasenteet ja -ideologiat."
2023
Presentation at the "Miten Suomi puhuu" Seminar, University of Oulu. Katariina Pyykkö: "Englannin kielen rooli Suomeen muuttaneiden korkeakoulutettujen työllistymisessä, kotoutumisessa ja osallisuudessa – pilottikyselyn aineistoa" (The role of the English language in the employment, integration, and inclusion of highly educated immigrants in Finland – data from a pilot survey.
2023
Presentation at The 20th Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) conference. Elizabeth Peterson and Katariina Pyykkö: "Language Attitudes and Ideologies: a research project on language tensions in Finland."
bottom of page