Johanna Tigert
Ph.D, Docent
johanna.tigert@utu.fi +358 29 450 2655 +358 50 470 7856 Seminaarinkatu 1 Rauma : PÄ 118 |
Multilingual and immigrant students, culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, teacher education
Johanna Tigert, Ph.D., is University Lecturer of Education whose research focuses on the teaching and learning of multilingual and immigrant background students. Dr. Tigert earned her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at the University of Maryland.
- Becoming Language Teacher Educators: Critical Friendships and Communities (2026) Leider, Christine Montecillo; Tigert, Johanna M.
- Rising to the Challenge: Case Study of International Student Acculturation (2026) Rethinking Mobility, Access, and Belonging in International Higher Education Tigert, Johanna M.; Fotouhi, Golnar; No, Lugyi; Marcucci, Susannah
- Using Language Portraits to Promote Critical Self-Reflection for Teaching Multilingual Students (2026)
- Journal of Language, Identity and Education
- ‘Culture’ in Finnish migrant-background youth’s discourses constructing togetherness and distance (2025)
- Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
- Extending Funds of Knowledge to involve Funds of Identity: perspectives for practitioners (2025)
- Journal for Multicultural Education
- Integrative teaching and learning: reflections of a complex world in the curricula of primary teacher education programs (2025)
- Journal of Curriculum Studies
- Linguistic diversity as a classroom superpower (2025) Moving from growth to asset-based mindsets Hardy-Skeberdis, Melanie; Peercy, Megan Madigan; Fredricks, Daisy E.; Tigert, Johanna M.; Crawford, Jessica; Jones, Loren D.
- Sheltered Math for Emergent Bilinguals: A Case Study of a Novice High School Teacher (2025)
- TESOL journal
- The Negotiation of Plurilingualism by Teachers in a Finnish Heritage Language School (2025) Language Teacher Agency: Navigating Complex and Diverse Educational Contexts Tigert, Johanna M.
- “We expressed what we needed, and the center made changes…I think they listened:” Exploring complexities of participatory action research in adult English for Speakers of Other Languages program (2025)
- Journal of participatory research methods (JPRM)



