People

Meet people related to the ELFA project.
Anna Mauranen

Project director

Prof. Anna Mauranen is Professor of English. She has directed the compilation of the spoken ELFA corpus and the written WrELFA corpus of academic ELF. Her latest book, Exploring ELF: Academic English shaped by non-native speakers (2012), reports her findings from the ELFA corpus.
Elina Ranta

Elina Ranta (University of Tampere) draws on data from the ELFA corpus in her PhD thesis, . It is available online as a TamPub E-thesis.
Niina Hynninen

Niina Hynninen conducts research in language regulation in ELF. Her PhD thesis,, is available online as an E-thesis.
Kaisa Pietikäinen

 applies conversation analysis to studying ELF in private contexts, namely ELF used as the "couple tongue" in cross-cultural love relationships. Her thesis, , is available online as an E-thesis.
Jaana Suviniitty

 is a lecturer at the Aalto University Language Centre. Her PhD thesis,, is available online as an E-thesis.
Diane Pilkinton-Pihko

 has investigated ELF lecturers' self-assesments of their language use at the Aalto University School of Science. Her thesis, , is also available as an E-thesis.
Collaborators
  • Anna Solin ()
  • Tiina Räisänen ()
  • Sebastian Malinowski ()
  • Laura McCambridge ()
  • Maria Kuteeva ()
  • Merli Kirsimäe ()