Riia Kivimäki
PhD
Foreign language subject didactics, early language learning, linguistically and culturally responsive teaching
I have worked at the university as a project researcher, as an assistant at the Department of English, as a producer of learning materials at the Department of Teacher Education (linguistically and culturally responsive teaching, https://sites.utu.fi/minasta-ja-kielesta-kiinni/oppimateriaali/) and as a university teacher of language education. Currently, I work at the Department of Teacher Education as a foreign language didactics lecturer. In addition to the university, I have worked as a postdoctoral reseacher at the Academy of Finland's Center of Excellence for Multidisciplinary Music Research (2009-2012) and as a language teacher in elementary and high school. I have also taught visual arts in high school, and studied an advanced curriculum in the subject while on exchange in the United States.
Education
PhD (2009), Department of English, University of Turku
https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/50249
MA (2000), Department of English, University of Turku
BA (1997), Department of English, University of Turku
Pedagocial studies (1996-1997)
St. Petersburg State University, Russian language studies (1995)
Graduate (1993), Rauma Lyseo high school
The neural basis of foreign language learning, the practices and benefits of linguistically and culturally responsive teaching in vocational education, supporting the well-being of university students, digitally assisted learning, artificial intelligence in foreign language subject didactics
KASA3310 Introduction to Subject-Specific Didactics, 5 ECTS
KASA3320 Advanced Subject-Specific Didactical Skills, 5 ECTS
KASA3330 Subject Teacher as a Professional in School Community and Society, 5 ECTS
KASA3340 Research Seminar in Subject-Specific Didactics, 5 ECTS
LUOT0017 and ROKL1671 Pedagogy of Languages and Language Acquisition, 2 ECTS
ROKL7604 Pedagogy of Languages and Language Acquisition, 2 op
Master’s thesis supervision group 2023-2025
- "I Have More Courage Now": Students' Perceptions of Content Learning and the Development of Their English Self-Concept During the Pre-DP Year (2024)
- Education Sciences
- Lapsi tarvitsee lukemista myös lomalla (2023)
- Turun Sanomat
- Positive stances toward cultural and linguistic diversity in Finnish schools (2023)
- Apples: Journal of Applied Language Studies
- Musical perceptual skills, but not neural auditory processing, are associated with better reading ability in childhood (2022)
- Neuropsychologia
- “We thought about it together and the solution came to our minds”: languaging linguistic problem-solving in multilingual Finnish classrooms (2021)
- International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
- Kielestä koppi – Oppimateriaali kielitietoiseen perusopetukseen (2020) Jenni Alisaari, Emese Jäppinen, Niina Kekki, Riia Kivimäki, Susanna Kivipelto, Kiia Kuusento, Elisa Lehtinen, Anniina Raunio, Elisa Repo, Salla Sissonen, Maria Tyrer, Heli Vigren
- Minästä kiinni – Perusopetuksen oppimateriaali moninaisista identiteeteistä (2020) Jenni Alisaari, Niina Kekki, Riia Kivimäki, Susanna Kivipelto, Kiia Kuusento, Elisa Lehtinen, Anniina Raunio, Elisa Repo, Salla Sissonen, Maria Tyrer, Heli Vigren
- A cross-cultural comparison of self-images between Japanese and Finnish students (2013)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Comparing QOL of students with social withdrawal tendencies in Japan and Finland (2013)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Japanese and Finnish students' responses on the kinetic school drawing – a cross-cultural comparison (2013)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- An international comparison of children's QOL in Japan and Finland using Kid-Kindl and YSR (2011)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- The interplay between musical and linguistic aptitudes: a review (2011)
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Foreign language pronunciation skills and musical aptitude: A study of Finnish adults with higher education (2010)
- Learning and Individual Differences
- The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children (2009)
- Neuroscience Letters
- Musical aptitude and second language pronunciation skills in school-aged children: Neural and behavioral evidence (2008)
- Brain Research
- Modification of dichotic listening (DL) performance by musico-linguistic abilities and age (2007)
- Brain Research
