Eva Malessa
 


eva.malessa@utu.fi




https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2344-7553(external)






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


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/




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. 




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





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