Niina Kekki
 FM | MA


njkekk@utu.fi



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ORCID identifierhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8244-5155





Areas of expertise
Second language acquisition, Finnish as a second language, corpus linguistics, linguistically and culturally responsive education, literature in language learning

Research community or research topic
My doctoral thesis focuses on the language use of advanced learners of Finnish as a second language.

Biography

Currently, I work as a university teacher at the Center for Language and Communication Studies. Additionally, I am a doctoral researcher in the Utuling doctoral program in the school of languages and translation studies.

I have worked as a university teacher of linguistically and culturally responsive teaching (LCR) at the Department of Education and as a project researcher in the project "Tuntemattomalla päähän?" (2020-2024). The project focused on the use of literature to support language learning of adult immigrants. 

Previously, I have also worked as a Finnish language teacher in several adult education institutes in the Turku region, and as a visiting teaching assistant at the university of Tartu, Estonia.



Research

In my on-going doctoral research, I use corpus linguistic methods to examine the effect of first language on the use of synonymous expressions in Finnish, such as the close synonymous adjectives tärkeä/keskeinen ('important') and suuri/iso ('big').

In addition, I have conducted research on linguistically and culturally responsive teaching and the use of fiction and the reading circle method in teaching Finnish to adult immigrants.



Teaching

I teach Finnish for international students and staff. 

Previously as a a teacher of LCR, 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.



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