Browsing by Author "Saastamoinen, Roosa"

Goals This qualitative thesis researches the linguistically responsible home economics counseling. The purpose is to describe, define and interpret how the home economics counseling could be developed, so that it reaches the immigrants who have just started learning Finnish. moreover, the thesis focuses on in what kind of means can be used to improve the comprehensibility of communication. Home economics pedagogy outside the formal education has rarely been studied from the perspective of linguistic responsibility in Finland. The data were collected from two nature excursions by voice recordings and applying a method of linguistic responsive observation (Ahlholm, 2017). From both excursions, the communication of two home economics teachers, two participants and myself, were audiorecorded. The data consists of 10 recordings, varying from 1 hour 47 minutes to 2 hours 13 minutes in length. In addition, written field notes of observations were gathered from both excursions. The data were analysed and thematized with a qualitative content analysis. Results and conclusions. Various situations linked to linguistic awareness and communication arose from the material, including translanguaging, solving situations where figures of speech are misunderstood, decoding difficult concepts, interpreting experiences through culture and challenging situations for teachers. Clear and understandable home economics counseling is based on seven different aspects: simplified language, clarifying by demonstrating, clarifying by repetition, the use of metaphors, utilising tools, teacher’s interaction and counseling situations which are pedagogically responsibly designed. In the light of this research, the development of home economics counseling towards a more linguistically aware approach seems to require, in addition to professionalism and will, all actors’ interest in linguistic interaction.