Elina Lehtilä
anelleh@utu.fi |
language learning; fluency; speech production and perception; oral proficiency; multilingualism
I am a doctoral researcher at the Department of English at the University of Turku. I have two master’s degrees from the University of Turku, one in phonetics and one in English (from the Language Specialist Degree Programme). I am a member of the research group FlowLang and the AFinLA research network Speech and Spoken Language Research.
During 2021–2023, I worked as a project researcher in the project Fluency across Multilingual Speakers (MultiFluency), which is funded by The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland. In autumn 2022, I worked as a salaried doctoral researcher in the Utuling doctoral programme. I have also worked as a project researcher in the project Fluency and Disfluency Features in L2 Speech (FDF2; funded by the Research Council of Finland) during 2020–2021.
In my doctoral dissertation I examine how first language speaking style and cross-linguistic differences affect multilingual speakers’ fluency across Finnish, Swedish, and English from the perspectives of perceived, utterance, and cognitive fluency. In August 2022, I received the Junior Researcher LAB (Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism) award for the most promising PhD project at the 31st Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA). My doctoral research has received funding from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
- Individual differences in multilingual speakers’ fluency: a qualitative analysis of speech and eye-movement data (2025)
- International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Vieraskielisen vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuden tutkimusta (2025)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - How Does Access to L1 Speech Affect L2 and L3 Perceived Fluency? (2024)
- NORDAND
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - I projektet MultiFluency studeras flerspråkiga personers flyt med ögonspårning (2024)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Listener perceptions of L1 speech in L2 and L3 fluency assessment contexts: a qualitative approach (2024)
- AFinLA-teema
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Monikielisten oppijoiden tarkastelu tuo uusia näkökulmia puheen sujuvuuden tutkimukseen (2023)
- Elävää tiedettä
(Other publication) - Sujuvuus oppimisen ja arvioinnin kohteena (2023) Sujuvuutta suulliseen kielitaitoon: näkökulmia kielten opetukseen Peltonen Pauliina, Lehtilä Elina
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Sujuvuus osana suullista kielitaitoa (2023) Eirola Venla, Peltonen Pauliina, Lehtilä Elina
(I1 Audiovisual publication) - Miten äidinkielen puhetyyli vaikuttaa vieraan kielen sujuvuuteen? (2022)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal)