Jenni
Alisaari
Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
PhD
INVEST Research Flagship Center
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Areas of expertise
Second language acquisition
linguistically and culturally responsive education
Finnish language learning
singing as a language teaching method
multilingualism, teachers' beliefs and practices
Biography
Jenni Alisaari has been working in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Turku, Finland 2013-2020. She has been teaching pre-service and in-service teachers on linguistically and culturally diverse education. Since fall 2020, she is working as a researcher in INVEST Research Flagship Center.
Her main areas of research include linguistically and culturally responsive teaching, advocating multilingualism, language learning, and especially language learning by singing, the method that can be used especially with illiterate immigrants.
Alisaari has been training teachers and teacher students at different educational levels: early childhood education, primary school, secondary school, upper-secondary school, vocational training and adult education. She has also been involved with curriculum design in national and municipal level in Finland.
Her main areas of research include linguistically and culturally responsive teaching, advocating multilingualism, language learning, and especially language learning by singing, the method that can be used especially with illiterate immigrants.
Alisaari has been training teachers and teacher students at different educational levels: early childhood education, primary school, secondary school, upper-secondary school, vocational training and adult education. She has also been involved with curriculum design in national and municipal level in Finland.
Publications
Language Choices at Home and Their Relationship With Educational Outcomes, With a Special Focus on Children With Origins in Former Yugoslavia and Turkey in Six European Countries (2022)
Frontiers in Sociology
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Kielellisesti ja kulttuurisesti vastuullinen pedagogiikka opettajan ja oppijoiden tukena (pääkirjoitus) (2022)
Kielikukko
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Quality content teaching for multilingual students: An international examination of excellence in instructional practices in four countries (2022)
Teaching and Teacher Education
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Migrant-Background Student Experiences of Facing and Overcoming Difficulties in Finnish Comprehensive Schools (2022)
Education Sciences
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Kuuluvuuden tunne ja poissaolot maahanmuuttotaustaisilla oppilailla (2022)
Psykologia
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Dyk ner i nya språk genom musiken (2022)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Linguistically responsive teaching: A requirement for Finnish primary school teachers (2022)
Linguistics and Education
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Lukuiloa kielellisesti ja kulttuurisesti vastuullisella toiminnalla (2022)
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))"Tää pitäisi piirtää. Tämä tehtävä on kielellisesti vaikea kaikille." : Luokanopettajaopiskelijoiden kieliopin hallinta ja käsityksiä kielellisestä tuesta (2022)
Ainedidaktiikka
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