Presentations
I regularly present my ongoing research at national and international conferences, seminars, and other events. Recently, I have given several invited talks on the theme of fluency in interaction.
Selected presentations
2024
- Forthcoming—Invited talk
Fluency in L2 interaction: Current trends and future directions
Pauliina Peltonen5th Online Conference on Interaction Research in German as a Foreign and Second LanguageUniversity of Kassel (remote participation), Germany - 9.7.2024—Invited talk
Interactional and multimodal approaches to L2 speech fluency
Pauliina PeltonenResearch Colloquium, Institute of PhoneticsUniversity of Cologne, Germany - 13.6.2024—Conference presentation
Fluency and disfluency features in L2 speech: Project perspectives
Pekka Lintunen, Sanna Olkkonen, Pauliina Peltonen, Magdalena Szyszka, Maarit Mutta & Outi VeivoFINSSE-11University of Helsinki, Finland - 3.6.2024—Conference presentation
The integrative role of speech fluency and gesture for building interactional competence: A qualitative study of L1 and L2 task-based interactions
Pauliina Peltonen, Loulou Kosmala, Sandra Götz & Pekka LintunenThinking, Doing, Learning 2024University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark - 29.5.2024—Invited talk
Understanding L2 speech fluency: Findings from the FDF2 project
Pauliina PeltonenApplied Linguistic Research Circle SeminarUniversity of Reading (remote participation), UK - 1.3.2024—Conference presentation
“Happy to chat, but far from perfect”: Student experiences of Chinese language learning after a Virtual Year Abroad
Clare Wright, Ying Peng, Chen Yang & Pauliina PeltonenGURT 2024Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA - 2.2.2024—Plenary talk
Capturing collaboration: Interactional fluency in the L2 classroom
Pauliina PeltonenPeer interaction in the L2 classroom workshopUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2023
- 16.11.2023—Conference presentation
Exploring individual and interactional speech fluency: A comparative study of L1 Finnish and L2 English fluency in monologue and dialogue
Pauliina PeltonenNORDISCO 2023University of Tampere, Finland - 9.11.2023—Conference presentation
Kielen ja tehtävätyypin vaikutukset puheen sujuvuuteen yksilön ja vuorovaikutuksen näkökulmista
- The effects of language and task type on speech fluency from individual and interactional perspectives
- Workshop for the research network “Speech and spoken language research”
Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Tampere, Finland - 9.11.2023—Conference presentation
Monikielisten puhujien sujuvuus eri kielissä: puhetuotoksen ja kognitiivisen sujuvuuden näkökulmat
- Multilingual speakers’ fluency in different languages: Perspectives from utterance and cognitive fluency
- Workshop for the research network “Speech and spoken language research”
Elina Lehtilä, Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Tampere, Finland - 9.11.2023—Conference presentation (poster)
Multidisciplinary and multilingual approaches to fluency: Projects FDF2 and MultiFluency
Elina Lehtilä, Sanna Olkkonen, Pauliina Peltonen, Magdalena Szyszka, Maarit Mutta, Outi Veivo & Pekka LintunenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Tampere, Finland - 9.11.2023—Conference presentation
Sujuva kielenkäyttö puheessa ja kirjoituksessa: kohti entistä kattavampaa kuvaa vieraan kielen sujuvuudesta
- Fluent language use in speech and writing: towards a more comprehensive picture of L2 fluency
Maarit Mutta, Päivi Laine, Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Tampere, Finland - 30.8.2023—Conference presentation
Understanding L2 repair fluency: Perspectives of L1 repair fluency, cognitive fluency, and language anxiety
Pauliina Peltonen, Sanna Olkkonen, Magdalena Szyszka & Pekka LintunenEuroSLA 32University of Birmingham, United Kingdom - 28.8.2023—Conference presentation
The interplay between speech fluency and gesture in L1 Finnish and L2 English task-based interactions
Pauliina Peltonen, Loulou Kosmala, Sandra Götz & Pekka LintunenDiSS workshop 2023Bielefeld University, Germany - 20.7.2023—Conference presentation
Fluency across modes: Towards a more comprehensive analysis of L2 fluency
- Symposium “Fluency as a multilingual practice: Concepts and challenges” (organized by Pauliina Peltonen & Clare Wright)
Maarit Mutta, Päivi Laine, Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenAILA World CongressLyon, France - 19.7.2023—Conference presentation
Multilingual speakers’ perceived fluency: How information about L1 speaking style affects L2 and L3 fluency assessment
- Symposium “Fluency as a multilingual practice: Concepts and challenges” (organized by Pauliina Peltonen & Clare Wright)
Elina Lehtilä, Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenAILA World CongressLyon, France - 17.7.2023—Conference presentation
What is L2 interactional fluency? Current debates and future directions linking theory, method, and assessment
- Symposium “Fluency as a multilingual practice: Concepts and challenges” (organized by Pauliina Peltonen & Clare Wright)
Pauliina Peltonen & Clare WrightAILA World CongressLyon, France - 17.6.2023—Conference presentation
How access to L1 speech affects L2 and L3 fluency assessment: Evidence from multilingual speakers
Elina Lehtilä, Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenEALTA 2023University of Helsinki, Finland - 26.5.2023—Conference presentation
Katseenseurannasta uusia näkökulmia monikielisten puhujien sujuvuuden tutkimukseen
- New perspectives on multilingual speakers' fluency with eye-tracking technology
Elina Lehtilä, Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka Lintunen49th Finnish Conference of LinguisticsUniversity of Oulu, Finland - 12.4.2023—Invited presentation
Fluency and Disfluency Features in L2 Speech (project presentation)
Pauliina PeltonenLinguistics colloquiumPhilipps University Marburg, Germany - 20.3.2023—Conference presentation
The effects of task mode and individual speaking style on L2 fluency
Pauliina PeltonenAAAL 2023Portland, Oregon, USA
2022
- 29.11.2022—Presentation
Assessing L2 interactional fluency in digital contexts: New opportunities for authentic language use?
Clare Wright & Pauliina PeltonenAssessing Interactional Competence: Directions and Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Assessment of Speaking (EALTA Assessing Speaking SIG Meeting)Online event, EALTA - 28.10.2022—Conference presentation
Interactional fluency in L1 Finnish and L2 English dialogues: A qualitative study
- Workshop for the research network “Speech and spoken language research”
Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Helsinki, Finland - 26.8.2022—Conference presentation
Facilitating L2 speech fluency development: A learner corpus approach
Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenEuroSLA 31University of Fribourg, Switzerland - 13.5.2022—Conference presentation
Monikielisten puhujien havaittu sujuvuus: henkilökohtaisen puhetyylin ja kieltenvälisten erojen vaikutus vieraan kielen puheen sujuvuuden arviointiin
- Multilingual speakers’ perceived fluency: the effects of individual speaking style and cross-linguistic differences on the assessment of L2 speech fluency
Elina Lehtilä, Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka Lintunen48th Finnish Conference of LinguisticsUniversity of Turku, Finland
2021
- 13.11.2021—Conference presentation
Monikielisten oppijoiden puheen sujuvuutta tarkastelemassa: puhetuotoksen ja havaitun sujuvuuden näkökulmat
- Examining multilingual learners' speech fluency: focus on utterance fluency and perceived fluency
- Workshop for the research network “Speech and spoken language research”
Pauliina Peltonen, Elina Lehtilä & Pekka LintunenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland - 18.8.2021—Conference presentation
Fluency in L2 learning and use: interdisciplinary approaches and future directions
- Symposium “Interdisciplinary approaches to L2 fluency” (organized by Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina Peltonen)
Pekka Lintunen, Maarit Mutta & Pauliina PeltonenAILA World CongressGroningen, The Netherlands (organized remotely) - 18.8.2021—Conference presentation
L2 fluency, interaction, and multimodality: Examples from peer interaction
- Symposium “Interdisciplinary approaches to L2 fluency” (organized by Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina Peltonen)
Pauliina PeltonenAILA World CongressGroningen, The Netherlands (organized remotely) - 1.7.2021—Conference presentation
Development of individual and interactional L2 fluency
Pauliina PeltonenEuroSLA 30University of Barcelona (organized remotely), Spain - 19.6.2021—Conference presentation
Connections in fluency across languages: Examining speech fluency in Finnish, Swedish, and English
Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenPSLLT 2021Brock University (organized remotely), Ontario, Canada - 14.6.2021—Conference presentation
MultiFluency: Multilingual speakers’ fluency across Swedish, Finnish, and English
Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenNNL2P 2021Linköping University (organized remotely), Linköping, Sweden - 14.4.2021—Invited talk
Second language speech fluency across languages: Insights from the MultiFluency project
Pauliina PeltonenNordic Editors and Translators seminar: English as a Lingua NordicaNordic Culture Point (remote participation), Helsinki - 12.2.2021—Conference presentation
Sujuvaa puhetta eri kielillä: MultiFluency-hanke
- Fluent speech in different languages: The MultiFluency project
Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenAinedidaktinen symposiumi 2021 (in Finnish)University of Helsinki (organized remotely), Finland - 20.1.2021—Invited talk
L2 interactional fluency: theoretical foundations, measures, and practical examples
Pauliina PeltonenOnline seminarUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2019
- 15.11.2019—Conference presentation (poster)
LALI-projekti: pedagoginen työkalupakki ja videoarviointityökalu
- The LALI project: pedagogical toolkit and video assessment tool
Maarit Mutta, Saara Hellström & Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Oulu, Finland - 15.11.2019—Conference presentation
Sujuvuustutkimuksen uudet tuulet
- New directions in fluency research
Pekka Lintunen, Maarit Mutta & Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Oulu, Finland - 15.11.2019—Conference presentation (poster)
Turun yliopiston Kielen oppimisen tutkimuskeskus Leala
- University of Turku Centre for Language Learning Research, Leala
Pauliina Peltonen & other members of the Leala executive teamAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Oulu, Finland - 6.11.2019—Presentation
L2 English pronunciation research: focus on fluency, beliefs and feedback
Pekka Lintunen, Aleksi Mäkilähde & Pauliina PeltonenL2 Pronunciation Research SymposiumUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland - 31.8.2019—Conference presentation
Short-term development of L2 fluency in formal instruction: A mixed methods study
Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka LintunenEuroSLA 29Lund University, Sweden - 29.5.2019—Conference presentation
Multimodal resources supporting L2 Finnish teaching: Insights from the LALI project
Maarit Mutta & Pauliina PeltonenICOP-L2Mälardalen University, Sweden - 17.5.2019—Conference presentation
Arviosta palautteeksi: Vieraan kielen ääntämispalautteen kohdentamisen harjoittelua
- From evaluation to feedback: Practicing how to adapt foreign language pronunciation feedback
Aleksi Mäkilähde, Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka Lintunen46th Finnish Conference of LinguisticsUniversity of Eastern Finland, Finland
2018
- 9.11.2018—Conference presentation
LALI-projekti: työkaluja kielen oppimiseen ja kotouttamiseen taiteen avulla
- The LALI project: tools for language learning and integration with the help of art
- Workshop “Taiteen ja kielentutkimuksen rajalla” (Paulasto & Pöyhönen)
Maarit Mutta & Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Eastern Finland, Finland - 9.11.2018—Conference presentation
Vieraan kielen sujuvuus paritehtävässä: arvioinnin ja mittaamisen näkökulmat
- Foreign language fluency during a pair task: perspectives from assessment and measurement
- Workshop for the research network “Speech and spoken language research”
Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Eastern Finland, Finland - 11.9.2018—Conference presentation
Cultures of L2 speech fluency research: A methodological perspective
Pauliina Peltonen10th AILA-Europe Junior Researcher MeetingUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - 8.9.2018—Conference presentation
Perceptions of interactional L2 fluency: temporal fluency and strategic competence
Pauliina PeltonenEuroSLA 28University of Münster, Germany - 7.9.2018—Conference presentation (poster)
Short-term gains in L2 speech during an oral skills course: Examining speech rate and fluency
Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenPSLLT 2018Iowa State University, USA - 6.9.2018—Invited pre-conference workshop
Investigating L2 fluency
Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenPSLLT 2018Iowa State University, USA - 13.8.2018—Presentation
Language and literacy learning through art (LALI): Toolkit for learners and educators
Maarit Mutta & Pauliina PeltonenSANORD Partner DayUniversity of Turku, Finland - 22.5.2018—Presentation
Kielten oppiminen, suullinen kielitaito ja ääntäminen tutkimuskohteina Turun yliopistossa
- Language learning, oral proficiency and pronunciation as objects of study at the University of Turku
Pekka Lintunen, Pauliina Peltonen & Katja ImmonenVÄISKI seminar: Suullisen kielitaidon tulevaisuusUniversity of Helsinki, Finland - 21.5.2018—Presentation
Suullisen kielitaidon tutkimusta Turun yliopiston Kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitoksella
- Research on oral proficiency at the School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku
- Blog post about the event (in Finnish)
Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenVÄISKI seminar: Suullisen kielitaidon tulevaisuusUniversity of Helsinki, Finland - 9.5.2018—Conference presentation
Itsekorjausten funktiot kognitiivisen ja puhetuotoksen sujuvuuden näkökulmista
- Functions of self-corrections from the perspectives of cognitive and utterance fluency
Pauliina Peltonen & Sanna Olkkonen45th Finnish Conference of LinguisticsUniversity of Helsinki, Finland - 8.5.2018—Conference presentation
Vieraan kielen ääntämispalaute autenttisissa ja simuloiduissa oppimistilanteissa
- Foreign language pronunciation feedback in authentic and simulated learning situations
Pekka Lintunen, Aleksi Mäkilähde & Pauliina Peltonen45th Finnish Conference of LinguisticsUniversity of Helsinki, Finland - 27.4.2018—Project presentation
LALI-hanke: kieltä, kulttuuria ja kotouttamista samassa paketissa
- The LALI project: language, culture and integration combined
Maarit Mutta & Pauliina PeltonenHumanist dayUniversity of Turku, Finland - 27.3.2018—Guest presentation, invited speaker
Tutkijan ura tohtorikoulutettavan näkökulmasta: väitöskirjaa ja paljon muuta
- Research career from a doctoral candidate’s perspective: Dissertation and beyond
Pauliina PeltonenCourse for 1st year university students studying language subjects (“Tulevaisuus pelissä”)University of Turku, Finland - 14.3.2018—Guest presentation, invited speaker
Suullinen kielitaito sujuvuuden näkökulmasta
- Oral proficiency from the perspective of fluency
Pauliina PeltonenVäiski project meetingUniversity of Helsinki, Finland
2017
- 10.11.2017—Conference presentation
Eleet ja puheen sujuvuus
- Gestures and speech fluency
- Thematic workshop “Perspectives on foreign language fluency” (Lintunen, Mutta & Peltonen)
Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Turku, Finland - 1.9.2017—Conference presentation
Exploring patterns in speech: The case of L1 speaking style influencing L2 speech fluency
Pauliina PeltonenEuroSLA 27University of Reading, UK - 11.8.2017—Conference presentation
Learner perspectives on pronunciation feedback
Pekka Lintunen, Aleksi Mäkilähde & Pauliina PeltonenPTLC 2017University College London, UK - 29.5.2017—Conference presentation
Short-term and long-term effects of pronunciation teaching: focusing on learner beliefs
Pekka Lintunen, Aleksi Mäkilähde & Pauliina PeltonenACLA 2017Ryerson University, Canada - 19.5.2017—Conference presentation
L2 pronunciation feedback: beliefs vs. practices
Pekka Lintunen, Aleksi Mäkilähde & Pauliina PeltonenEPIP 5Université Caen Normandie, France - 19.5.2017—Conference presentation
Toimiiko kielenoppija toiveidensa mukaisesti? Katsaus ääntämispalautteeseen
- Do language learners act according to their wishes? An overview of pronunciation feedback
Aleksi Mäkilähde, Pauliina Peltonen & Pekka Lintunen44th Finnish Conference of LinguisticsUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland - 10.4.2017—Seminar presentation
Multimodaalisuus suullisen kielitaidon tutkimuksessa
- Multimodality in L2 oral proficiency research
Pauliina Peltonen”Melko yleistä kielitiedettä” (“Fairly general linguistics”) XXIIIUniversity of Turku, Finland - 24.3.2017—Conference presentation
Havaintoja englannin yliopisto-opiskelijoiden suhtautumisesta ääntämispalautteeseen
- Notes on university students’ perceptions of pronunciation feedback
Pekka Lintunen, Aleksi Mäkilähde & Pauliina PeltonenXXXI Fonetiikan päivät (in Finnish)University of Jyväskylä, Finland - 19.3.2017—Conference presentation
Connecting temporal fluency and problem-solving: Fluency resources in L2 English dialogue
Pauliina PeltonenAAAL 2017Portland, Oregon, USA - 15.2.2017—Conference presentation
Finnish learners’ speech fluency in L2 English: Exploring fluency in interaction and L1 speaking style
Pauliina Peltonen(Dis)fluency 2017University of Louvain, Belgium - 20.1.2017—Conference presentation
From individual to interactional: Fluency resources in Finnish learners’ L2 English dialogues
Pauliina PeltonenICOP-L2University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2016
- 2.12.2016—Conference presentation
Short-term gains in L2 speaking skills? Examining fluency development during an oral skills course
Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenAccents 2016University of Łódź, Poland - 11.11.2016—Conference presentation
Collaborative problem-solving: An exploratory study of interactional fluency in L2 dialogue
- Thematic colloquium “Speech and Spoken Language Research”
Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Tampere, Finland - 27.8.2016—Conference presentation
Reconsidering L2 speech fluency: Fluency resources in monologue and dialogue data
Pauliina PeltonenEuroSLA 26University of Jyväskylä, Finland - 23.8.2016—Conference presentation
A strategic perspective on L2 speech fluency: Exploring individual repertoires of fluency resources
Pauliina PeltonenPsychology of Language Learning 2University of Jyväskylä, Finland - 19.5.2016—Conference presentation
Between fluency and disfluency: Fluency resources in Finnish learners’ L2 English monologue and dialogue productions
Pauliina Peltonen8th AILA-Europe Junior Researcher MeetingTallinn University, Estonia - 17.3.2016—Conference presentation
Vieraskielisen puheen sujuvuuden tarkastelua: metodologisia haasteita
- Examining L2 speech fluency: methodological challenges
Pauliina PeltonenXV Keskusteluntutkimuksen päivät (in Finnish)University of Turku, Finland
2015
- 13.–14.11.2015—Conference presentation (poster)
Identifying fluency resources: Mechanisms for maintaining the flow of talk in L2 English dialogue and monologue
Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Helsinki, Finland - 13.–14.11.2015—Conference presentation
Toistot suullisen sujuvuuden mittarina: näkökulmia psykolingvistiikasta ja kielen oppimisen tutkimuksesta
- Repetitions as a measure of oral fluency: perspectives from psycholinguistics and SLA
Pauliina Peltonen & Sanna OlkkonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Helsinki, Finland - 29.10.2015—Guest lecture, invited speaker
Sujuvuus suullisen kielitaidon osana: Näkökulmia tutkimukseen, arviointiin ja opetukseen
- Fluency as an aspect of oral proficiency: Perspectives on research, assessment and teaching
- Blog post about the event (in Finnish)
Pauliina PeltonenTraining event for language teachers in Turku areaPuolala school (Turku), Finland - 23.10.2015—Data session presentation
Gestures as fluency resources: Exploring the fluency-enhancing functions of gestures in L2 English speech
Pauliina PeltonenThe Language-Gesture Connection seminarUniversity of Oulu, Finland - 8.10.2015—Guest presentation, invited speaker
Suullista kielitaitoa tutkimassa: millaista on sujuva puhe?
- Researching oral proficiency: what is fluent speech?
Pauliina PeltonenKieltenopettajien ilta – Mitä kielitaito on?School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku, Finland - 26.8.2015—Conference presentation (doctoral workshop)
Towards a framework of fluency resources: Examining how learners keep the flow of talk going
Pauliina PeltonenEuroSLA 25Université d’Aix-Marseille, France - 8.6.2015—Presentation
Perspectives on oral proficiency in L2 English: Fluency, stalling mechanisms and communication strategies
Pauliina PeltonenVisit organized by the Langnet subprogramme Language acquisitionLancaster university, UK - 9.5.2015—Conference presentation
Rethinking fluency: Examining repetitions from psycholinguistic and SLA perspectives
Sanna Olkkonen & Pauliina PeltonenFLTAL ’15International Burch University, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 9.5.2015—Conference presentation
Short-term effects on fluency development in formal education
Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenFLTAL ’15International Burch University, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2014
- 13.11.2014—Conference presentation
Keeping the flow talk of going: fluency, stalling mechanisms and communication strategies
Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland - 13.11.2014—Conference presentation
Taukojen vai virheiden välttelyä – Kielenoppijoiden näkemyksiä sujuvuuteen ja sen kehittymiseen
- Avoiding pauses or avoiding errors – Language learners’ perspectives on fluency and its development
Pekka Lintunen & Pauliina PeltonenAFinLA Autumn SymposiumUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland - 11.9.2014—Conference presentation
Exploring L2 fluency resources: A mixed methods approach
Pauliina PeltonenSLE 2014Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland - 12.5.2014—Conference presentation
Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in L2 fluency research
Pauliina Peltonen6th AILA-Europe Junior Researcher MeetingUniversity of Jyväskylä, Finland
2013
- 19.6.2013—Conference presentation
Fluency in Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking learners’ spoken English
- Awarded the De Gruyter Best Paper Prize
Pauliina Peltonen5th AILA-Europe Junior Researcher MeetingTrinity College, Ireland - 10.5.2013—Conference presentation
L2 fluency development: tone units in native and learner English
Pekka Lintunen, Pauliina Peltonen & Joshua WebbEPIP 3Universidad de Murcia, Spain