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Pria’s MA thesis examines the learning of Estonian quantity among Estonian and Chinese native speakers. We want to see how Chinese speakers benefit from their native language experience in learning the Estonian quantity, especially the tonal component therein.

Emily’s MA thesis examines the emotions experienced by Russian-speaking students who major in a subject taught in Estonian, a foreign language to them. We aim to investigate how the control-value appraisals of the subject and the control-value appraisals of the foreign language interact to influence their emotions during the learning process.