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Author(s) -
Johanna Tanner,
Jannika Lassus
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
afinla:n vuosikirja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2343-2608
DOI - 10.30661/afinlavk.69285
Subject(s) - criticism , working life , private sector , private life , work (physics) , communication skills , linguistics , pedagogy , psychology , political science , sociology , public relations , medical education , engineering , medicine , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , quality (philosophy) , human rights
This article deals with the workplace communication of bilingual Swedish-speaking Finns, the biggest linguistic minority of Finland. The article is based on a survey and focuses on the communication in the private sector. The three main questions here are: How often and in what kind of communication situations are the national languages and English used at work? How do the Swedish-speaking Finns themselves evaluate their Finnish skills in their working life? And, how do they view the language skills attained in their past education – are they transferable to the working life? The study shows that Swedish-speaking Finns working in the private sector need high skills of both national languages and English on a daily or weekly basis in different communication situations. It is also shown that there is a certain amount of criticism towards earlier language education concerning the education of the national languages.