Eva Malessa

Eva Malessa

Visiting Researcher
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Centre for Applied Language Studies
Mobile
+358408054481
Fields of science
6121 Languages
516 Educational sciences

Biography

2019-2024    Redesigning a literacy support serious game app in a participatory design approach with Finnish language and literacy teachers of adult migrants with limited/interrupted formal education (Doctoral study).

2018-2019   Project researcher in the AllRead team ()

  • Responsible for the design, realization, and field-testing of an English-language digital literacy support game pilot version for Finnish-speaking primary school children


2018-2024   Contact person of the Language Campus Blood(Donor)Group

Research interests

My main research fields are educational linguistics and technology. I also have a strong interdisciplinary research interest in ethics and sustainability.

I have been involved in LESLLA (Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults) research, specializing in technology-mediated initial literacy training and teaching of adult migrants with limited/interrupted educational backgrounds.

In my doctoral research I explored and co-designed with LESLLA teachers digital literacy support for adult emergent readers of Finnish as a second language. Further, based on my own experience, I disseminated selected ethical dilemmas, focusing on informed consent procedures and reciprocity to discuss how prevailing issues can affect participation and thus sustain underrepresentation of LESLLA learners.

Publications

Publication
2025
Available through Open Access

JYU Dissertations
Malessa, Eva
Publication
2024
Available through Open Access

Annual LESLLA Symposium
Malessa, Eva
Young-Scholten, Martha
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
Malessa, Eva
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

Annual LESLLA Symposium
Malessa, Eva
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

Annual LESLLA Symposium
Malessa, Eva
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

Annual Symposium on Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults
Malessa, Eva
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

Annual LESLLA Symposium
Cooper, Gareth
Filimban, Enas M.
Haznedar, Belma
Malessa, Eva
Mocciaro, Egle
Naeb, Rola
Peyton, Joy
Sosinski, Marcin
Young-Scholten, Martha
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

International Journal of Technology in Education and Science
Malessa, Eva
Publication
2023
Available through Open Access

ETMU Days 2023
Malessa, Eva
Publication
2022
Available through Open Access

International Conference of Applied Linguistics
Malessa, Eva