Central Eurasian Studies

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
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

Second and foreign language pedagogy, applied language studies, sociocultural perspectives of language learning, multimodal language teaching, classroom interaction, 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. & Muhonen, A. (2020) “Moi moi! Te olette siistejä!”: Chattailyä, itsestä kertomista ja yhteisöllisyyttä pohjoisamerikkalaisissa suomen ohjelmissa. Päättymätön projekti III. Kirjoitettua vuorovaikutusta eri S2-foorumeilla. Kakkoskieli 9. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopiston suomalais-ugrilainen ja pohjoismainen osasto, p. 82-96.
• Muhonen, A. & Räsänen, E. (2020) “Hopefully nähdään”: North American Finnish language learners building community through virtual conversation hours. Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta, 11(1).
• 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, 16–23.
• Räsänen, E. & Kangas, T. (2014) ”Mikä ihme on askelpalautin??” Sutina 1/2014, 16–19.

Conference presentations (selected)

• Kivik, P-K & Räsänen, E. (2019) From Classroom to Coffee-hour and Back: L2 Estonian/Finnish Learners Recycling and Reusing Resources. Thinking, doing, learning 2019. University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• Räsänen, E. & Kivik, P-K (2019) Integrating authentic and multilingual interactions into foreign language teaching. Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2). Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, Sweden.
• Kivik, P-K & Räsänen, E. (2019) Interactional practices as learning objects emerging in (semi)instructional L2 talk-in-interaction. Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2). Mälardalens Högskola, Västerås, Sweden.
• Kivik, P-K & Räsänen, E. (2019) Portfolio assessment of learners’ independent language use. Beyond Validity: Social and Ethical Consequences of Assessment. Rice University. Houston, Texas.

Honors and Awards (selected)

• 2019 IU Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning Active Learning Grant with Dr. Piibi-Kai Kivik
• 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.
• 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.