Jenni
Alisaari
INVEST Research Flagship Centre
PhD
INVEST Research Flagship Center
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Areas of expertise
Second language acquisition
linguistically and culturally responsive education
Finnish language learning
singing as a language teaching method
multilingualism, teachers' beliefs and practices
Biography
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.
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.
Publications
‘Culture’ in Finnish migrant-background youth’s discourses constructing togetherness and distance (2025)
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
‘Culture’ in Finnish migrant-background youth’s discourses constructing togetherness and distance (2025)
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Exploring student perceptions of belonging and school climate in two culturally diverse Finnish secondary schools (2025)
Finnish journal of social research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
"You have to choose your words wisely" Finnish pre.service teachers´ understandings of, and support of, multilingual students´academic language development (2025)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Equipping Teachers with Pedagogical Competencies to Handle and Harness Linguistic Diversity (2024)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Osallisuuden ja kuuluvuuden ulottuvuuksia maahanmuuttotaustaisten nuorten elämässä (2024)
(B2 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Vähemmistönuoret osallistuvat yhteiskuntaan monipuolisesti, mutta tarvitsevat siihen myös tukea (2024)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Kieltenopetuksen nykytila ja tulevaisuuden visiot / Språkundervisningens nuläge och framtidsvisioner (2024)
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys )Nuorten osallisuuden ympäristöt: Haasteita ja kehittämisen mahdollisuuksia (2024)
INVEST blog
(E1 Yleistajuinen artikkeli lehdessä)
Finnish pre-service teachers’ understandings of the role of language(s) in learning mathematics (2023)
Language, Culture and Curriculum
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))