Leena Maria Heikkola
Job description
I teach Finnish and do research in Finnish and Kven.
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Elisa Repo,
Niina Kekki
:
Mapping pre-service subject teachers’ preparedness for linguistically diverse classrooms in Finland
Current Issues in Bilingualism (CIB) 2025
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Raisa Harju-Autti
:
“You have to choose your words wisely”
Finnish pre-service teachers’ understandings of, and support for, multilingual students’ academic language development
Current Issues in Bilingualism (CIB) 2025
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Minna Maijala,
Päivi Laine,
Maarit Mutta
:
The social aspect of sustainable development in language teaching and learning – Pre-service language teachers’ perceptions on multilingualism
Palgrave Macmillan 2025 ARKIV
Mari Bergroth,
Júlia Lompart,
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Equipping Teachers with Pedagogical Competences to Handle and Harness Linguistic Diversity
2024 ARKIV
Hanna Acke,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Vulnerability and Educational Equity – PISA 2018 in Finnish and German Media Discourses
2024 ARKIV
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Minnaleena Toivola,
Jeongdo Kim,
Antti Saloranta
:
Kielivalinnat ja kielenvaihtaminen ensikielisten ja ei-ensikielisten suomenpuhujien keskusteluissa – Kyselytutkimus / Language choices and language switching in conversations between L1 an L2 Finnish speakers – A survey
Jenni Alisaari,
Line Møller Daugaard,
Joke Dewilde,
Raisa Harju-Autti,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jonas Yassin Iversen
et al.:
Mother tongue education in four Nordic countries - problem, right or resource?
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari,
Heli Vigren,
Nancy Commins
:
Linguistically responsive teaching: A requirement for Finnish primary school teachers
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari,
Heli Vigren,
Nancy Commins
:
Requirements Meet Reality: Finnish Teachers’ Practices in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Ekaterina Kuzmina,
Bård Uri Jensen
:
Predictors of object naming in aphasia: does cognitive control mediate the effects of psycholinguistic variables?
Jenni Alisaari,
Salla Sissonen,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Teachers’ beliefs related to language choice in immigrant students’ homes
Jenni Alisaari,
Heli Vigren,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
How can inclusion be promoted through a linguistically responsive pedagogy?
Bloomsbury Academic 2019
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Nancy Commins,
Emmanuel Opoku Acquah
:
Monolingual practices confronting multilingual realities. Finnish teachers’ perceptions of linguistic diversity
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari
:
The effects of songs on L2 spoken fluency and proficiency level: A pedagogical perspective
Multilingual Matters 2019 DOI
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari
:
Laulun sanoja lausumalla taitavaksi ääntäjäksi?
Jenni Alisaari,
Mikaela Björklund,
Raisa Harju-Autti,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Språkundervisningens nuläge och framtidsvisioner / Kieltenopetuksen nykytila ja tulevaisuuden visiot
2024
Minnaleena Toivola,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Pekka Lintunen
:
Puheen tutkimuksen uusia suuntia – Aineistona vapaasti tuotettu puhe / New directions in speech research – Freely produced speech as data
2024 ARKIV
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Salla-Riikka Kuusalu,
Minna Maijala
:
Justifying inclusion of sustainability issues in language teaching – A survey of pre-service language teachers.
2024
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Linguistically responsive pedagogy: Finnish Teachers´ Knowledge and Reported Practices. [Conference presentation]. ECER Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2024
Mareen Patzelt,
Judi Rose,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Self-efficacy in L1 and L2 reading
2024
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Niina Kekki,
Elisa Repo
:
Finnish pre-service teachers´ preparedness for linguistic diversity in the classroom.
2024
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Raisa Harju-Autti
:
Investigating Finnish Preservice Teachers' Understandings of Providing Linguistic Support in Mathematics Instruction
2024
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Minna Maijala,
Soila Merijärvi,
Päivi Laine,
Maarit Mutta
:
Suomalaisten kieltenopettajaopiskelijoiden käsityksiä kulttuurista – Kulttuurisen nöyryyden kautta kohti sosiaalista oikeudenmukaisuutta
2024
Liisa-Maria Lehto,
Minnaleena Toivola,
Antti Saloranta,
Jeongdo Kim,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Ensikielisten suomenkielisten tulkinnat ei-ensikielisten reaktioista kielenvaihtamistilanteissa
2024
Jenni Alisaari,
Mari Bergroth,
Raisa Harju-Autti,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Salla Sissonen,
Heli Vigren
:
Home Language Use for Learning: Teachers' Beliefs After the Multilingual Turn in Education Policies
2024
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Pragmatiska förmågor – Validering av APACS
2024
Hanna Acke,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Language ideologies in language learning: L1 and L2 perspectives on Finnish and German
2024
Mikaela Björklund,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Language education in Finland – Current state and future visions
2024
Mareen Patzelt,
Judi Rose,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Self-efficacy in L1 and L2 reading
2024
Minnaleena Toivola,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Pekka Lintunen
:
Vapaasti tuotettu puhe tutkimuksen kohteena / Freely produced speech as the focus of research
Jonas Yassin Iversen,
Jenni Alisaari,
Line Møller Daugaard,
Joke Dewilde,
Raisa Harju-Autti,
Leena Maria Heikkola
et al.:
Conceptualising students with a migrant background and their languages in education across the Nordic countries
2021
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Review: ERP studies in aphasia.
2018
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Finnish teachers’ practices I linguistically responsive teaching.
2018
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Päivi Hämäläinen,
Juhani Ruutilainen
:
What can oral stories tell us about cognitive fatigue and language in MS?
2018
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Aineenopettajat ja kielellisesti vastuullinen opettajuus – Käsityksiä kielen oppimisesta. (Subject teachers and linguistically responsive teaching – Beliefs about language learning.)
2018
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Linguistically responsive teaching in Finland.
2018
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Päivi Hämäläinen,
Juhani Ruutilainen
:
What can oral stories tell us about cognitive fatigue and language in MS?
2018
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Nancy Commins,
Emmanuel Opoku Acquah
:
Linguistically responsive teaching - Requirement for Finnish class teachers.
2018
Antti Saloranta,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Kuuntele ja toista -harjoittelu konsonanttien kestoerojen havaitsemisen ja tuoton oppimisessa. (Listen and repeat practice in the perception and production of duration.)
2018
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Nancy Commins,
Emmanuel Opoku Acquah
:
Finnish teachers’ practices regarding linguistic responsiveness in teaching.
2018
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Nancy Commins,
Emmanuel Opoku Acquah
:
Teachers’ language practices in multilingual classrooms.
2018
Elisa Repo,
Niina Kekki,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari
:
Kohti kielitietoisesti ratkaisukeskeistä äidinkielen ja kirjallisuuden opettajuutta. Kyselytutkimus aineenopettajaopiskelijoiden kielenoppimiskäsityksistä. (Towards problem-solving teaching of Finnish language and literature. A survey on teacher students beliefs about language learning.)
2018
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Nancy Commins,
Emmanuel Opoku Acquah
:
Multilingualism: Contradictions Between the Beliefs and Practices of Finnish Teachers.
2018
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari
:
Laulaminen ja puheen sujuvuus
2017
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari
:
Laulujen sanoja lausumalla taitavaksi ääntäjäksi
2017
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Päivi Hämäläinen,
Juhani Ruutiainen
:
Cognitive fatigue and language in MS. A quantitative look at narratives
2017
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Jenni Alisaari
:
Increasing fluency in L2 speaking with singing
2017
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola
:
Singing as a language teaching method. Teachers' beliefs and practice
2017
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Päivi Hämäläinen,
Juhani Ruutiainen
:
Cognitive fatigue and language in MS. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of semispontaneous oral narratives
2017
Jenni Alisaari,
Leena Maria Heikkola,
Emanuel Opoku Acquah
:
Valuing, accepting, or paralyzing multilingualism?
2017
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Research interests
My research focuses on multilingualism, language learning, linguistically responsive teaching and the interface between language and cognition, especially in people with neurological disease.
2025–2026 I will work together with PhD Antti Saloranta (guest research in Kven language at UiT) to investigate the phonetic system of the Kven language by comparing archival and self-collected speech data. In addition, we will examine possible differences in the perception of the sound system and grammar in Kven and Finnish by using psychophysiological measurements.
