Jenni Alisaari
PhD
jenali@utu.fi |
Second language acquisition; linguistically and culturally responsive education; Finnish language learning; singing as a language teaching method; multilingualism, teachers' beliefs and practices
INVEST Research Flagship Center
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.
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.
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- Kielitietoisuus osana koulun arkea ja laaja-alaista osaamista (2022) Laaja-alainen osaaminen koulussa - Ajattelijana ja oppijana kehittyminen Harju-Autti Raisa, Alisaari Jenni, Yli-Jokipii Maija
- Kotoutuminen, kuuluvuus, kielitaito ja kaverit: Opetushenkilöstön huolenilmauksia maahanmuuttotaustaisten oppilaiden osaamisesta ja mahdollisuuksista (2022)
- Kasvatus ja Aika
- Kuuluvuuden tunne ja poissaolot maahanmuuttotaustaisilla oppilailla (2022)
- Psykologia
- Language Choices at Home and Their Relationship With Educational Outcomes, With a Special Focus on Children With Origins in Former Yugoslavia and Turkey in Six European Countries (2022)
- Frontiers in Sociology
- Learning of intercultural competences and languages at school and their influence on global competences and immigrant-origin peers’ sense of belonging (2022)
- Apples: Journal of Applied Language Studies
- Linguistically responsive teaching: A requirement for Finnish primary school teachers (2022)
- Linguistics and Education
- Lukuiloa kielellisesti ja kulttuurisesti vastuullisella toiminnalla (2022) Suuntaa lukemiseen! Lukutaitoprojekti esittelee: Materiaalia lukutaitotyön tueksi – Rikta dig till läsning! Läskunnighetprojektet presenterar: Material som stöd för läskunnighetsarbete Alisaari Jenni
- Migrant-Background Student Experiences of Facing and Overcoming Difficulties in Finnish Comprehensive Schools (2022)
- Education Sciences
- Quality content teaching for multilingual students: An international examination of excellence in instructional practices in four countries (2022)
- Teaching and Teacher Education
- Requirements Meet Reality: Finnish Teachers’ Practices in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms (2022)
- Journal of Language, Identity and Education
- Riitänkö minä? Osaanko auttaa? Opettajien huolia maahanmuuttotaustaisten oppilaiden opetuksessa (2022)
- Kasvatus : Suomen kasvatustieteellinen aikakauskirja
- Sukellus uusiin kieliin musiikin mukana (2022) ILOA KIELTEN OPPIMISEEN TIETOA JA HYVIÄ KÄYTÄNTEITÄ KIELTEN OPETUKSEN MONIPUOLISTAMISEKSI Heikkola Leena Maria, Alisaari Jenni
- "Tää pitäisi piirtää. Tämä tehtävä on kielellisesti vaikea kaikille." : Luokanopettajaopiskelijoiden kieliopin hallinta ja käsityksiä kielellisestä tuesta (2022)
- Ainedidaktiikka
- Teaching immigrant students: Finnish teachers' understandings and attitudes (2022)
- Teaching and Teacher Education
- The Joys of Teaching: Working with Language Learners in Finnish Classrooms (2022)
- Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
- Alakoululaisten suomenoppijoiden opetusjärjestelyt ja kielitaidon tason yhteys luetun ymmärtämiseen (2021)
- Oppimisen ja oppimisvaikeuksien erityislehti
- Does the language spoken at home matter for the education, wellbeing, and sense of belonging of the children of immigrants? And does the answer depend on how we analyse it? (2021) Kilpi-Jakonen Elina, Alisaari Jenni
- Finnish Teachers’ Beliefs About Students' Home Language Use (2021)
- Critical Multilingualism Studies
- Kielellisesti vastuullinen pedagogiikka (2021)
- Tempus
- Monikielinen pedagogiikka sosiaalisen oikeudenmukaisuuden edistäjänä – käytännön ideoita opettajille (2021)
- Kieli, Koulutus Ja Yhteiskunta
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