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
How Finnish teachers understand multilingual learners’ language learning (2020)
Apples: Journal of Applied Language Studies
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Laulut ja lorut kieltenopetuksessa (2020)
Tempus
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
DivED – kohti kieli- ja kulttuuritietoisempaa opettajuutta ja opettajankoulutusta (2020)
Kieli, Koulutus Ja Yhteiskunta
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
Kielestä koppi – Oppimateriaali kielitietoiseen perusopetukseen (2020)
(Oppikirja, ammatillinen käsi- tai opaskirja taikka sanakirja (D5))Kielellisesti vastuullista pedagogiikkaa ja oppilaan tukemista: Suomalaisten opettajien käsityksiä kielen merkityksestä opetuksessa (2020)
Kasvatus-lehti - Koulutuksen tutkimuslaitos
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Kielellisesti vastuullinen kieltenopetus (2020)
Tempus
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
#kielitietoisuus #kielellisestivastuullinenopetus #kielellisestivastuullistavaopetus – twiittejä käsiteviidakosta (2020)
Kieli, Koulutus Ja Yhteiskunta
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))