Elisa Räsänen

Phone:

(812) 855-4862

Email:

erasanen@indiana.edu

Department:

Current Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Education

• PhD, Center for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (Applied Language Studies)
  In progress
• MA from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, (Finnish language), 2014
  Degree includes studies in Indiana University, Bloomington
• BA from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, (Literature), 2012
  Degree includes studies in Josef Skvorecký Literary Academy, Prague, Czech Republic

Research Interests

Language teaching and learning, second and foreign language pedagogy, applied language studies, sociocultural perspectives of language learning, multimodal language teaching, classroom interaction, discourse analysis, nexus analysis, and learning Finnish as a second/ foreign language.

Courses Currently or Recently Taught

• Introductory Finnish I & II
• Intermediate Finnish I & II
• Advanced Finnish I & II
• Post-Advanced Finnish I & II
• Hot Reads from a Cool Country: Contemporary Finnish Literature

Publications

• Räsänen, E. (2021) Toimijuus ja vuorovaikutusjärjestys amerikkalaisten suomenoppijoiden itsenäisessä kielenkäytössä (Agency and interaction order in American Finnish language learners' independent target language use). Puhe ja kieli, 41:3, 225–245. https://doi.org/10.23997/pk.112565
• Muhonen, A. M., & Räsänen, E. (2021). “Kaikille okei” - Everyone alright? Shifting topics and practices in language students’ chat during the global covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 10(1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jotlt/article/view/31565
• Räsänen, E. & Muhonen, A. (2020). “Ihmisiltä poissa” – away from people: Language learning spaces in Finnish as a foreign language students’ chat during the covid-19 pandemic. Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta, 11(5). Retrieved from https://www.kieliverkosto.fi/fi/journals/kieli-koulutus-ja-yhteiskunta-syyskuu-2020/ihmisilta-poissa-away-from-people-language-learning-spaces-in-finnish-as-a-foreign-language-students-chat-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
• Räsänen, E. & Muhonen, A. (2020) “Moi moi! Te olette siistejä!”: Chattailyä, itsestä kertomista ja yhteisöllisyyttä pohjoisamerikkalaisissa suomen ohjelmissa. (”Bye bye! You are cool!” Chatting, sharing about oneself and community building in North American Finnish programs). In Latomaa, S. & Lauranto, Y. (edis.) Päättymätön projekti III. Kirjoitettua vuorovaikutusta eri S2-foorumeilla. Kakkoskieli 9. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopiston suomalais-ugrilainen ja pohjoismainen osasto, pp. 82- https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/317706
• Muhonen, A. & Räsänen, E. (2020) “Hopefully nähdään”: North American Finnish language learners building community through virtual conversation hours. Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta, 11(1). Link: https://www.kieliverkosto.fi/fi/journals/kieli-koulutus-ja-yhteiskunta-helmikuu-2020/hopefully-nahdaan-north-american-finnish-language-learners-building-community-through-virtual-conversation-hours
• Muhonen, A., Teerenhovi, S. & Räsänen, E. (2019): Blogataan ja vlogataan: yhteisöllisyys, verkkovälitteisyys ja yhdessä oppiminen kolmessa yliopistossa (Blogging and vlogging: community, online communication and learning together in three universities). Suomenopettajat 2/2019, pp. 16–23.
• Räsänen, E. & Kangas, T. (2014) ”Mikä ihme on askelpalautin??” Sutina. A Journal for Finnish as a Second Language Teachers 1/2014, 16–19. Also published here: https://soppi.jyu.fi/tyokaluja-ohjaukseen/opiskelijoiden-opetuskokeiluja

Honors and Awards

• 2022 Grants for dis­ser­ta­tion work (2 months), Cent­re for Applied Lan­gua­ge Stu­dies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• 2021 IU OVPIA Global Classroom grant.
• 2021 FACET. The Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching, class of 2021.
• 2021 Finlandia Foundation National Scholarship.
• 2021 Solki Starting grants for PhD work, Center for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• 2021 IU CITL Summer Writing-Teaching Grant.
• 2019 IU CITL Active Learning Grant with Piibi-Kai Kivik.
• 2019 IU HLS Faculty Research Grant.
• 2019 Grant for Cooperation project on Finnish language and culture. Finnish National Agency for Education, Finland. Collaborator: Anu Muhonen, University of Toronto.
• 2018 IU Center for Language Excellence Summer Online Language Course Development Fellowship.
• 2018 Grant for Cooperation project on Finnish language and culture. Finnish National Agency for Education, Finland. Collaborator: Anu Muhonen, University of Toronto.
• 2017 Grant for a North American collaboration project. Center for International Mobility, Finland. Several collaborators.
• 2015 CIMO (The Centre for International Mobility, Finland) grant for a traineeship in Finnish Studies Program at University of Toronto.
• 2013 Fulbright Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Scholarship for Indiana University.
• 2010 Erasmus scholarship for an academic exchange in Josef Skvorecký Literary Academy, Prague, Czech Republic.