Somu sarunvalodas gramatiskās pazīmes reālajā lietojumā un mācību materiālos
The grammatic features of Finnish colloquial language in the actual use and in study materials

Summary/Abstract: The Finnish colloquial language is characterized not only by lexical but also by grammatical features, which have emerged from dialects and rapid talk, and have become commonly used. In addition, as Finnish colloquial language is widely used in everyday situations and is often considered a more neutral form of communication than literary language, it can pose challenges for language learners who have mostly been exposed to literary language during their studies. Finnish linguists have been interested in the aquisiton of colloquial language since the 1980s. However, there has been a lack of research, in which it would be viewed from the perspective of the language learner and compared with the actual use of colloquial language. The author, who herself has learned Finnish as a foreign language, continues to study Finnish colloquial language in this article, this time focusing on language learning and language skills. The article deals with theoretical questions about the concept of colloquial language and the place of colloquial language in language acquisition, and compares the features of colloquial language found in Finnish language study materials with the ones actually used. According to her research interests, the author has chosen the features of colloquial language that appear in the written form, looking for examples in social network texts. The introduction to the article defines the purpose of the research, as well as explains the terms used and describes the corpus used in the research. In the second part of the article, the author studies the problems related to the acquisition of Finnish colloquial language, looking at previous research, while the third part compares the features of colloquial language mentioned in the study materials with the actual use of language in Instagram.

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