Tarja Nikula

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tarja Nikula is involved.

Journal

AILA Review

Edited by Christopher J. Jenks

ISSN 1461-0213 | E‑ISSN 1570‑5595

Title

Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms

Edited by Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit

This volume explores a highly topical issue in second and foreign language education: the spreading practice in mainstream education to teach content subjects through a foreign language. CLIL has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 7] 2010. x, 295 pp.

Qin, Paiwei, Mai Shirahata and Tarja Nikula 2025 Ideological tensions in identity construction of Chinese medical teachers and students in EMI Journal of English-Medium Instruction 4:2, pp. 189–211 | Article

English-medium instruction (EMI) has been promoted in China’s mainland for over two decades, and its developmental landscape is complex. This article explores ideological tensions and how these tensions are created in the discourse of Chinese medical teachers and students in EMI courses. Drawing… read more

Nikula, Tarja 2017 Emerging themes, future research directions Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL, Llinares, Ana and Tom Morton (eds.), pp. 307–312 | Article

Nikula, Tarja and Karita Mård-Miettinen 2014 Language learning in immersion and CLIL classrooms Handbook of Pragmatics: 2014 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article

Nikula, Tarja, Christiane Dalton-Puffer and Ana Llinares 2013 CLIL classroom discourse: Research from Europe Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 1:1, pp. 70–100 | Article

Under the label of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) the teaching of curriculum subjects through the medium of a foreign language has become a widely accepted feature in mainstream education systems in Europe and other parts of the world. After contextualizing its subject matter in… read more

Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit 2010 Charting policies, premises and research on content and language integrated learning Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms, Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit 2010 Language use and language learning in CLIL: Current findings and contentious issues Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms, Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit (eds.), pp. 279–292 | Article

Nikula, Tarja 2010 Effects of CLIL on a teacher’s classroom language use Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms, Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit (eds.), pp. 105–124 | Article

This chapter reports on a case study on the effects of CLIL on a teacher’s language use. The data consist of biology lessons by a teacher both in his L1, Finnish, and in English. Analysis focuses both on what the teacher says and how he uses language in the two settings. In line with its… read more

Nikula, Tarja 2002 Teacher talk reflecting pragmatic awareness: A look at EFL and content-based classroom settings Pragmatics 12:4, pp. 447–467 | Article

This paper approaches classroom interaction from a pragmatic perspective. More specifically, it concentrates on how pragmatic awareness is reflected in the use of modifying elements of talk by two teachers (both non-native speakers of English), and how their use of modifiers affects the ongoing… read more