Anssi Roiha

Anssi Roiha

Senior Lecturer
Unit
Faculty of Education and Psychology
Department / Division
Department of Education
Room number
RUU C324
Postal address
Alvar Aallon katu 9
Fields of science
516 Educational sciences
6121 Languages

Biography

I work as a university lecturer in special education at the Department of Education. I am a qualified special education teacher and English subject teacher. I have worked as a special education teacher and teacher educator in both Finland and the Netherlands.

I currently teach separate studies for special education teachers and courses related to, among other things, learning support, multiprofessional collaboration and diversity in schools. I also supervise master's theses and doctoral dissertations.

I am also an expert member of the Matriculation Examination Board and a textbook author.

I am a docent in foreign language didactics at the Department of Teacher Education, at the University of Turku, specializing in differentiated language teaching.

In my teaching and research, I specialize in differentiated instruction and have published extensively on the subject also in professional literature aimed at teachers, including the book How to succeed in differentiation, co-authored with my colleague Jerker Polso https://www.hachettelearning.com/teaching-strategies/how-to-succeed-in-…

Research interests

My research interests:

differentiated instruction

learning support

early foreign language teaching

foreign language didactics

intercultural education

bilingual education

I mainly use qualitative research methods, especially interviews and visual methods.

I am currently leading a project funded by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation called "IDEAL - Longitudinal study of individual differences in early foreign language learning." The project focuses on the individuality of students in early foreign language teaching by following their English language studies from 1st grade to 3rd grade.

Publications

Publication
2025
Otava.
Roiha, Anssi
Tuohimetsä, Riikka
Cartwright, Jason
Helenius, Niina
Hiitti, Antti
Parikka, Essi
Rajala, Sini
Tierney, Peter
Publication
2025
Available through Open Access
Frontiers in Education.
Ní Ríordáin, Máire
Neville, Craig
Roiha, Anssi
Sánchez Vizcaíno, María Carmen