Kyppö Anna, teacher (part-time)
- Room:
Duties
- Slovak language and culture; responsibility for Slovak curriculum and testing at the Faculty of Humanities.
- English academic communication - critical information management, research writing and presentation skills
- Multilingual and multicultural communication
- English and multilingual creative writing
- Courses in Slavic languages and cultures
Education
- PhD (Applied Language Studies), University of Jyväskylä
- PhD (Teaching Slovak as a Foreign Language, Comenius University, Bratislava)
- MA (Teaching English language and literature, Comenius University, Bratislava)
- MA (Teaching Slovak language nd literature, Comenius University, Bratislava)
Expertise
- Lecturer (Department of Languages and Communication) in subject and master degree courses:
The Introduction to the Research of European Cultures, History and Multimodality of European Cultures, Language Contacts, Slavic Languages and Nations. - Contact English teacher for the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Coordinator of Integrated language and communication studies (mathematics)
- Test designer and evaluator for the authorized translators from Finnish to Slovak
- Coordinator of bilateral exchange programmes - Comenius University and University of Jyväskylä (Department of Languages and Communication and Language Centre).
- Interpretation and translation
- Editor of dictionaries and translations of literature from Slovak to Finnish.
Affiliations
- Member of Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters
- Member of Finnish Association of Applied Linguistics (AFinLa)
- Test designer and evaluator for the authorized translators from Finnish to Slovak
Areas of interest
- Learning and teaching Slovak
- Exploring effective pedagogical tools for teaching the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) in the technology-enhanced learning environments
- Agency and motivation in language learning.
- Development of plurilingual and intercultural education, enhancement of multilingual and multicultural academic communication competence
- Teaching and developing the courses of multilingual interaction
- Developing the courses of multilingual creative writing
International mobility and cooperation
- Slovak as a Foreign Language network. Studia Academica Slovaca Centre, Comenius University, Bratislava.
- EUROCALL – SIG Less commonly taight languages and CALL, Secretary.
Selected publications
- Kyppö, A. 2017. Climbing a mountain: learning Slovak in new language learning environments. University of Jyväskylä. ISBN 9789513971458
- Kyppö, A. 2016. Slovenčina v multilingválnom kontexte. Prípadová štúdia. [Slovak in a multilingual context. A case study]. In Pekarovičová, J. & Hargašová, Z. (eds). Slovenčina (nielen)ako cudzí jazyk v súvislostiach. II. Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, 357-372.
- Kyppö, A. & Natri, T. 2016. Promoting multilingual communicative competence through multimodal academic learning situations. In Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Bradley, L. &Thouësny, S. (edit.) CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016. Research publishing.net. Dublin, 243-247.
- Kyppö, A. 2015. Insight into learning Slovak in an e-learning environment. In Jalkanen, J., Jokinen, E. & Taalas, P. Voices of pedagogical development: expanding, enhancing and exploring higher education language learning. Research publishing-net. Dublin, 57-84.
- Kyppö, A., Natri, T, Pietarinen, M. & Saaristo P. 2015. Use your languages!: From monolingual to multilingual interaction in language class. In Jalkanen, J., Jokinen, E. & Taalas, P. Voices of pedagogical development: expanding, enhancing and exploring higher education language learning. Research publishing-net. Dublin, 319-335.
- More publications: https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/Person/4592786?lang=en_GB