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Biography
Currently, I work as project researcher in the project "Tuntemattomalla päähän?". The project focuses on the use of literature to support language learning of adult immigrants. Additionally, I am a doctoral researcher in the Utuling doctoral program in the school of languages and translation studies.
I have worked as a Finnish as a foreign language teacher at the Center for Language and Communication Studies and as a university-teacher of linguistically and culturally responsive teaching at the department of education.
Previoiusly, I have worked as a teacher of Finnish language in several adult education institutes in the Turku region, and as a teaching assistant at the university of Tartu, Estonia.
Teaching
In my current project, I instruct reading circles for language learners. At the Centre of Language and Communication studies, I was teaching Finnish for exchange students and international degree students. As a a teacher of linguistically and culturally responsive teaching, I was teaching multiple courses for pre- and in-service teachers regarding Finnish as a second language and literature, language-awareness, multilingual pedagogy, teaching Finnish in preparatory education and linguistically and culturally responsive teaching.