Pauliina Peltonen

Alexandra Vraciu (on the left) and Pauliina Peltonen (on the right) showing a copy of the book ”Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom”.

Delighted to host my colleague Alexandra Vraciu (University of LLeida) at the English department @utu.fi this week! How fitting that my copy of this book just arrived in the mail – we have both written chapters to it. www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/... Soon out @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social!

Flyer for the book Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom, with discount code "PIFLC50" for 50% off on preorders.

Happy to have been able to contribute a chapter on #fluency development to this forthcoming volume "Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom"! Out in March 2026 & now available for preorder: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/... @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @channel-view.bsky.social

Huge congrats to ILFACT project researcher Saara Naapila for securing a 4-year funding for her PhD project "Language anxiety and speech fluency among multilingual speakers in Finland"! 🥳 #FlowLangGroup @utu.fi @koneensaatio.fi koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...

AFinLA's yearbook 2025 is out! 🎉 Check out our article (Rihko & Peltonen) on the teaching of L2 speech #fluency based on a textbook analysis & questionnaire for language teachers. Conducted during #FDF2 and #ILFACT projects (funded by the Research Council of Finland). OA! doi.org/10.30661/afi...

Interested in #pronunciation, #robots, & #languageteaching? Check out our OA article (w/ Teppo Jakonen + Derya Duran) on how interactions involving a teacher, learners & a robot provide meaningful learning opportunities (funded by the Research Council of Finland). #CA @utu.fi doi.org/10.1177/1362...

If you prefer reading a more concise version of what this study was all about and what we discovered, check out our 1-page OASIS summary of it (open access of course)! www.oasis-database.org/details/mhmm... #FDF2 #FlowLangGroup

Happy to announce that our article (w/ Sandra Götz & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) exploring L1 & L2 speech #fluency in monologue + dialogue is now out in SSLA (OA)! Part of the recently completed #FDF2 project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). #FlowLangGroup @utu.fi doi.org/10.1017/S027...

Noticed today that the DiSS 2025 proceedings have been published! www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202... Lots of interesting papers included (all open access). Glad I could contribute to this disfluency annotation initiative led by Trouvain, Crible, Belz, & Betz: www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202...

Finally, #FlowLangGroup member Maarit Mutta @maaritmutta.bsky.social presented our work combining data from #FDF2 and #KISUVI projects, to examine learners' written and spoken profiles in the L1 + L2 and their anxiety during these tasks. Thanks again to the audience! #EuroSLA34 @koneensaatio.fi

Elina Lehtilä (#FlowLangGroup member and #ILFACT project researcher) did a very impressive job in summarizing her whole PhD and its four substudies in a 20-minute presentation on Friday morning 👏 #EuroSLA34

On Thursday, me & Clare Wright had the pleasure of presenting a new framework for studying fluency in interaction based on data from two projects (one of them being #FlowLangGroup #FDF2 that ended last year). Thanks to the audience for the discussion and feedback! #EuroSLA34

(📷: Magdalena Szyszka)

#FlowLangGroup was well represented at #EuroSLA34! On Friday, we presented the aims, methods, and work packages of the #ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

(Me on the left, Elina Lehtilä on the right. Photo by @maaritmutta.bsky.social)

’Language learning is impressive’ – The starting point for the second keynote at #EuroSLA34 by Patrick Rebuschat.

@c-labl.bsky.social

#EuroSLA34 has kicked off in Tromsø with Theres Grüter’s plenary on prediction as a mechanism for (L2) learning! 👏

@c-labl.bsky.social

Thanks Sara, hope to see you at the next one indeed! 😊

Preparations for #EuroSLA34 are in full swing! Picked up our ILFACT poster today from the printer & excited to showcase it next week in Tromsø!

Come and check it out during Poster session II ✨
➡️ When? Friday 27th, at 3 pm
➡️ Where? Solhallen (TEO-H1 U1.803)

#FlowLangGroup @eurosla.bsky.social

‌Yesterday we had the pleasure to present a part of the ILFACT project focusing on eye-tracking at the "Show what you got!" day organized by the Turku EyeLabs @utu.fi. Thanks to the audience for the helpful tips & interesting presentations on on-going/planned eye-tracking research! 🙏 #FlowLangGroup

Congrats to Veijo Vaakanainen who defended his PhD dissertation ”Dynamik och kontrast i konnektorbruket hos finska inlärare av L2-svenska” successfully today @utu.fi! Grattis 👏

Want to know more about the ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland) and our recent data collection trip to Marburg, Germany? Read more in our blog post, just published in the Department of English blog EnglanTY @utu.fi! blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...

Sandra Götz, Loy Lising and Pauliina Peltonen (me) on a coffee break.

Enjoying my time in Germany to the fullest! This week: complementary data collection, meeting w/ a Parisian colleague in Cologne + giving a guest lecture in Marburg. Also got to follow a lecture on intercultural communication by Loy Lising (in the middle in the 📷), as she was also visiting Marburg!

The #ILFACT data collection in Marburg this week was a success! So grateful for all the local help we received 🙏 To the wonderful student participants: thank you for contributing to fluency research!

(In the 📸: ILFACT collaborator Sandra Götz, project researcher Saara Naapila & me) #FlowLangGroup

Greetings from Germany! Next week, the #ILFACT project data collection continues at Philipps-University Marburg. Preparations are well under way and I’m looking forward to meeting local students on Monday! #FlowLangGroup

Vieraskielisen vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuden tutkimusta Turun yliopiston kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitoksella englannin oppiaineessa syksyllä alkanut Vieraskielisen vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuus eri konteksteissa (ILFACT) -hanke tuo sujuvuustutkimukseen uusi...

Kiinnostaako, millaista vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuteen liittyvää tutkimusta teemme viime syksynä käynnistyneessä Suomen Akatemian rahoittamassa ILFACT-hankkeessa? Lue lisää tänään ilmestyneestä Hiiskuttua-lehden jutusta 🎉 ⬇️ sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/v...

📢 We're organising the Language Testing Forum 2025 at the University of Southampton.
📝 Submit your abstracts by 11 July 2025!
👉 For more information, please visit the LTF2025 page: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n... #LTF2025 #languageassessment

Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship L2 oral fluency is a core aspect of general oral proficiency. However, it represents a distinct challenge for L2 speakers as it requires a real-time efficient allocation of cognitive resources. Specif...

In the innovative 5th article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright), Daphnée Simard & colleagues combine analyses of perceived L2 fluency, working memory and affective factors (enjoyment + anxiety). Happy reading! 🎉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

This 4th article (by Elina Lehtilä & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) of the forthcoming IRAL special issue on #fluency introduces a methodologically innovative combination of speech fluency analysis and eye movement data. A new way to examine utterance & cognitive fluency among multilingual speakers!

Speech fluency among L1 Arabic elementary and intermediate learners of English as a foreign language This study examines the fluency of L1 Arabic learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) across two proficiency levels – elementary and intermediate, corresponding to A2 and B1 of the Common Europ...

The 3rd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL has been published online! In this article, Ghadah Albarqi examines L1 Arabic learners of English and provides important insights into speech fluency especially at lower levels of proficiency.
doi.org/10.1515/iral...

Looking forward to #psynom24.. for #bilingualism folks there, please reach out if you want to be included in this group..

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The 2nd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright) is now available ahead of print! A highly welcome addition to the growing body of research on affective factors and fluency by Magdalena Szyszka & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social, based on #FDF2 project data.

#multilingual #landscape spotted in Lleida, Spain last week. ❤️