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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 16h

Save the date! Join us for a webinar "Beyond words: Multilingual fluency and gesture" featuring our AILA fluency network and the gesture network on November 17th 2026, at 4–5 PM CET. Registration through this link: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New book! Get 30% off "Context Matters in SLA" edited by Clare Wright, Pauliina Peltonen, Anja Steinlen and Thorsten Piske with discount code CMSLA30. Order now ⬇️

30% discount on Context Matters in SLA edited by Clare Wright, Pauliina Peltonen, Anja Steinlen and Thorsten Piske with discount code CMSLA30. Order your copy on the MM website! Code exipires 30/09/26.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 08/09/2026

Finally received my editor copies today! Always a special feeling to hold a book you have contributed to in your hands. So grateful to my fellow editors, all the authors, reviewers of the chapters & the full volume, as well as the whole @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social team! @channel-view.bsky.social

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 27/08/2026

Was a pleasure to present our joint work on L2 alignment with Loulou Kosmala at the ICOP-L2 conference in Newcastle! Thanks to the audience for the great comments and discussion. The photo is from the welcome reception – fantastic rooftop location, with great views over the city in the setting sun!

Loulou Kosmala (on the left) and Pauliina Peltonen (on the right) at the ICOP-L2 conference welcome reception.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 02/07/2026

Calling all fluency researchers! 📢 The AILA Research Network "Multilingual approaches to fluency" is organizing a symposium at the AILA 2027 World Congress. Want to present your work there? Send your abstract (150 words) by 15th September 2026! Full CFP: pauliinapeltonen.com/fluency-ren/...

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Call for papers for the ReN symposium at the AILA 2027 World Congress | Dr. Pauliina Peltonen

I am researcher and lecturer at the University of Turku.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 01/07/2026

Kirjoitin sujuvuustutkimuksesta Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian AASF-julkaisuun: journal.fi/aasf/article... Tuoreimmassa numerossa 1/2026 paljon muutakin kiinnostavaa kesäluettavaa! journal.fi/aasf/issue/v... @utu.fi #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 29/06/2026

Had a wonderful time @eurosla.bsky.social in Lisbon! Great to catch up with colleagues & to make new friends. ➡️ Pic 1: some of the contributors & editors of our forthcoming Context Matters in SLA volume ➡️ Pic 2: our little multimodality delegation It’s the community that makes EuroSLA so great ❤️

From left to right: Simone Pfenninger, Anastasia Pattemore, Clare Wright, me (Pauliina Peltonen),
Raphael Berthele and Matthew Pattemore.

From left to right: Pascale Leclerq, Florence Baills, Alexandra Vraciu and me (Pauliina Peltonen).

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 29/06/2026

EuroSLA 36 will take place in Ghent next year!

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 27/06/2026

Well deserved, congratulations Anna! She spent the autumn semester with us at @utu.fi, and I could not be happier that she received this recognition for her great work.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 26/06/2026

Day two at @eurosla.bsky.social kicking off with Emma Marsden’s inspiring keynote! ➡️ SLA research has real-world impact. Also valuable to communicate unclear results: it’s okay for us to say – we don’t know!

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 25/06/2026

What a great first day at the @eurosla.bsky.social conference! Thank you to everyone who came to hear about mine and Loulou Kosmala’s work with the #ILFACT project data. Great questions and discussion! (Photo by Clare Wright)

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 24/06/2026

On my way to @eurosla.bsky.social! Mine and Loulou Kosmala’s talk is tomorrow Thursday 25th at 3.30 PM (room 117). Come & hear about gestures+fluency! Will also bring these discount flyers with me for the upcoming @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social book ”Context Matters in SLA” (I’m one of the editors) 💚

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 04/03/2026

Delighted to host my colleague Alexandra Vraciu (University of LLeida) at the English department @utu.fi this week! How fitting that my copy of this book just arrived in the mail – we have both written chapters to it. www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/... Soon out @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social!

Alexandra Vraciu (on the left) and Pauliina Peltonen (on the right) showing a copy of the book ”Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom”.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 12/12/2025

Happy to have been able to contribute a chapter on #fluency development to this forthcoming volume "Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom"! Out in March 2026 & now available for preorder: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/... @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @channel-view.bsky.social

Flyer for the book Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom, with discount code "PIFLC50" for 50% off on preorders.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 05/11/2025

AFinLA's yearbook 2025 is out! 🎉 Check out our article (Rihko & Peltonen) on the teaching of L2 speech #fluency based on a textbook analysis & questionnaire for language teachers. Conducted during #FDF2 and #ILFACT projects (funded by the Research Council of Finland). OA! doi.org/10.30661/afi...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 30/10/2025

Interested in #pronunciation, #robots, & #languageteaching? Check out our OA article (w/ Teppo Jakonen + Derya Duran) on how interactions involving a teacher, learners & a robot provide meaningful learning opportunities (funded by the Research Council of Finland). #CA @utu.fi doi.org/10.1177/1362...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 07/08/2025

Noticed today that the DiSS 2025 proceedings have been published! www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202... Lots of interesting papers included (all open access). Glad I could contribute to this disfluency annotation initiative led by Trouvain, Crible, Belz, & Betz: www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 29/06/2025

Finally, #FlowLangGroup member Maarit Mutta @maaritmutta.bsky.social presented our work combining data from #FDF2 and #KISUVI projects, to examine learners' written and spoken profiles in the L1 + L2 and their anxiety during these tasks. Thanks again to the audience! #EuroSLA34 @koneensaatio.fi

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 29/06/2025

Elina Lehtilä (#FlowLangGroup member and #ILFACT project researcher) did a very impressive job in summarizing her whole PhD and its four substudies in a 20-minute presentation on Friday morning 👏 #EuroSLA34

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 29/06/2025

On Thursday, me & Clare Wright had the pleasure of presenting a new framework for studying fluency in interaction based on data from two projects (one of them being #FlowLangGroup #FDF2 that ended last year). Thanks to the audience for the discussion and feedback! #EuroSLA34 (📷: Magdalena Szyszka)

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 29/06/2025

#FlowLangGroup was well represented at #EuroSLA34! On Friday, we presented the aims, methods, and work packages of the #ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). Thanks to everyone who stopped by! (Me on the left, Elina Lehtilä on the right. Photo by @maaritmutta.bsky.social)

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 26/06/2025

’Language learning is impressive’ – The starting point for the second keynote at #EuroSLA34 by Patrick Rebuschat. @c-labl.bsky.social

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 26/06/2025

#EuroSLA34 has kicked off in Tromsø with Theres Grüter’s plenary on prediction as a mechanism for (L2) learning! 👏 @c-labl.bsky.social

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 18/06/2025

Preparations for #EuroSLA34 are in full swing! Picked up our ILFACT poster today from the printer & excited to showcase it next week in Tromsø! Come and check it out during Poster session II ✨ ➡️ When? Friday 27th, at 3 pm ➡️ Where? Solhallen (TEO-H1 U1.803) #FlowLangGroup @eurosla.bsky.social

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 17/06/2025

‌Yesterday we had the pleasure to present a part of the ILFACT project focusing on eye-tracking at the "Show what you got!" day organized by the Turku EyeLabs @utu.fi. Thanks to the audience for the helpful tips & interesting presentations on on-going/planned eye-tracking research! 🙏 #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 13/06/2025

Congrats to Veijo Vaakanainen who defended his PhD dissertation ”Dynamik och kontrast i konnektorbruket hos finska inlärare av L2-svenska” successfully today @utu.fi! Grattis 👏

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 11/06/2025

Want to know more about the ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland) and our recent data collection trip to Marburg, Germany? Read more in our blog post, just published in the Department of English blog EnglanTY @utu.fi! blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...

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International collaboration facilitates research on interactional fluency ← EnglanTY

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 23/05/2025

Enjoying my time in Germany to the fullest! This week: complementary data collection, meeting w/ a Parisian colleague in Cologne + giving a guest lecture in Marburg. Also got to follow a lecture on intercultural communication by Loy Lising (in the middle in the 📷), as she was also visiting Marburg!

Sandra Götz, Loy Lising and Pauliina Peltonen (me) on a coffee break.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 15/05/2025

The #ILFACT data collection in Marburg this week was a success! So grateful for all the local help we received 🙏 To the wonderful student participants: thank you for contributing to fluency research! (In the 📸: ILFACT collaborator Sandra Götz, project researcher Saara Naapila & me) #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 08/05/2025

Greetings from Germany! Next week, the #ILFACT project data collection continues at Philipps-University Marburg. Preparations are well under way and I’m looking forward to meeting local students on Monday! #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 14/04/2025

Kiinnostaako, millaista vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuteen liittyvää tutkimusta teemme viime syksynä käynnistyneessä Suomen Akatemian rahoittamassa ILFACT-hankkeessa? Lue lisää tänään ilmestyneestä Hiiskuttua-lehden jutusta 🎉 ⬇️ sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/v...

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Vieraskielisen vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuden tutkimusta

Turun yliopiston kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitoksella englannin oppiaineessa syksyllä alkanut Vieraskielisen vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuus eri konteksteissa (ILFACT) -hanke tuo sujuvuustutkimukseen uusi...

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Dr Duygu Candarli @duygucandarli.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

📢 We're organising the Language Testing Forum 2025 at the University of Southampton. 📝 Submit your abstracts by 11 July 2025! 👉 For more information, please visit the LTF2025 page: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n... #LTF2025 #languageassessment

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 11/04/2025

In the innovative 5th article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright), Daphnée Simard & colleagues combine analyses of perceived L2 fluency, working memory and affective factors (enjoyment + anxiety). Happy reading! 🎉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship

L2 oral fluency is a core aspect of general oral proficiency. However, it represents a distinct challenge for L2 speakers as it requires a real-time efficient allocation of cognitive resources. Specif...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 11/03/2025

This 4th article (by Elina Lehtilä & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) of the forthcoming IRAL special issue on #fluency introduces a methodologically innovative combination of speech fluency analysis and eye movement data. A new way to examine utterance & cognitive fluency among multilingual speakers!

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 11/03/2025

The 3rd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL has been published online! In this article, Ghadah Albarqi examines L1 Arabic learners of English and provides important insights into speech fluency especially at lower levels of proficiency. doi.org/10.1515/iral...

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Speech fluency among L1 Arabic elementary and intermediate learners of English as a foreign language

This study examines the fluency of L1 Arabic learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) across two proficiency levels – elementary and intermediate, corresponding to A2 and B1 of the Common Europ...

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Looking forward to #psynom24.. for #bilingualism folks there, please reach out if you want to be included in this group.. go.bsky.app/C5Lhp1C

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 28/02/2025

The 2nd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright) is now available ahead of print! A highly welcome addition to the growing body of research on affective factors and fluency by Magdalena Szyszka & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social, based on #FDF2 project data.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 19/02/2025

Spent last week at the University of Lleida in Spain, invited by my colleague Alexandra Vraciu. Had a wonderful time meeting students from the Faculty of Education, planning future collaborations & presenting #FlowLangGroup fluency research to the research group Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (📷).

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 24/01/2025

At the end of last year, I had the pleasure of presenting my fluency research at Young Academy Finland’s Academy Club. The talk was recorded, and you can find a link to it at the bottom of the page: nuortentiedeakatemia.fi/en/2025/01/1... (Note also the recording of the Q&A for all presenters)

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Joint Academy Club with the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences intensified cooperation

In November, Young Academy Finland invited The Estonian Young Academy of Sciences to a joint Academy Club. Cooperation between the sister academies started two years ago, when both The Estonian Academ...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 13/12/2024

ILFACT-hankkeessa (KKL, Turun yliopisto) on haettavana tutkimusavustajan/projektitutkijan määräaikainen tuntipalkkainen tehtävä ajalle 1.2.2025–30.11.2025 (max 600 h). Hakuaikaa 9.1.2025 klo 16.00 asti. Ks. www.utu.fi/fi/yliopisto... (tunniste 20621). Lisätietoja: sites.utu.fi/flowlang/fi/...

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Avoimet tehtävät Turun yliopistossa

Tutustu Turun yliopistossa avoinna oleviin tehtäviin ja täytä hakemus sähköisesti. Ohjeet rekrytointijärjestelmän käyttöön löytyvät täältä. Huom. Työpaikkailmoitukset eivät välttämättä näy, jos käytät...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 12/12/2024

Our doctoral programme Utuling’s annual field trip was organized in Paimio Sanatorium (designed by Aino and Alvar Aalto in 1929) this year. A fascinating place!

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 29/11/2024

Had fun giving a presentation on my #fluency research at Young Academy Finland’s event earlier today. Learned a lot from the other presentations as well (and yes, I still take notes by hand)! #FlowLangGroup

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Ben Lang @benebular.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hey #linguistics, I've created a starter pack for phoneticians, speech people, and phriends. If you feel like I've left someone out or you have suggestions, just lmk! I want more spectrograms on my feed so let's make that happen. go.bsky.app/LPrwcbq

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