Dr Marina Mattheoudakis is a Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the director of the Lab on Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment in the same department. In 2005 she proposed and designed the launch of the 3rd Experimental Primary School of Evosmos, which has participated in several pioneer educational projects in Greece and abroad. Between 2017 and 2020 she worked in Delaware, USA where she designed and implemented an innovative dual language immersion program (English and Greek), for which she was nominated by the Department of Education in Delaware (Innovation Awards 2018 and Innovation Awards 2019). In 2019 she received a Scholarship and attended the Data Wise Leadership Institute at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Boston, U.S. Her research interests lie in the fields of instructed second language acquisition, bilingual education and learner corpora. She has published widely in journals, books and conference proceedings.
Dr Eleni Agathopoulou is Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University. She holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics, University of Reading UK, and a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition (Noun-noun compounds in the Greek-English Interlanguage), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has taught English as a Foreign Language in primary and secondary schools, as well as English for Specific Purposes at the Aristotle University. Since her employment at the School of English she has taught English Grammar, Reading and Writing, Introduction to Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition Theories, Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, Methodology of Teaching Modern Languages and English for Specific Purposes. Her research interests concern non-native language acquisition and foreign language learning, bilingualism, processing instruction, focus on form and language learning strategies.
Dr Areti-Maria Sougari is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an M.A. in Linguistics and English Language Teaching from the University of Leeds, UK, and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Essex, UK. Upon completion of her studies, she was appointed as an assistant professor at American College of Thessaloniki (ACT) and then she taught ESP in the Department of Physics and the Department of Computer Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has participated in a number of teacher training courses organised in the private and the state sector. She has coordinated a regional in-service teacher training course (‘Teaching English in the Primary Classroom: New Challenges – New Approaches’). As part of her teaching duties at the School of English, she has taught a number of courses both theoretical and practical in nature. Practical courses touch upon the issues of teaching practice in primary schools (offering guided and reflective teaching experience for a period of 8 weeks, micro-teaching, and observing language classrooms). She is the author of a resource book Teaching English in the Primary Classroom: A Guide to Teaching Practice (University Studio Press); some of her work appears in Language and Education, TESOL Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Linguistics and other journals. Her research interests include teaching English to young learners, teacher education and development, teaching English as an International Language, and second language acquisition (mainly in the field of classroom discourse and corrective feedback).
Dr Thomaï Alexiou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds an MA in TEFL from Canterbury Christ Church University and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Wales Swansea, UK (full scholarship). She has taught English as a foreign language for about 10 years in Greece and Britain. She currently teaches courses in methodology of language teaching, pedagogical foundations in learning a foreign language (at the undergraduate level) and materials design (at the postgraduate level). Since her employment she has been involved in research projects such as PEAP (English for young learners educational project), DysTEFL2, CLIL-Prime etc.. She is also the coordinator of the Modules ‘Teaching English to Young Learners’ & ‘Teacher Education’ (at the postgraduate level) at the Hellenic Open University.
Her research interests concern cognitive development and individual differences in foreign language learning for very young learners while her expertise is on early foreign language learning, methodology of teaching languages to young learners (preschool and primary education), and material development for young learners. She has been invited as a speaker and teacher trainer in Greece, Europe, Australia, Russia and the UAE and she has published widely in the field of second language pedagogy. She has also written and edited textbooks for children learning English as a foreign language.She is the co-author of Magic Book 1&2, Teaching packages for the teaching of English at Grade 3 in Greek state schools. Magic Book 2 has been shortlisted for the MacMillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing (ELTons 2014).
Thomi Dalpanagioti is a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds an MA in Lexicography (Theory and Practice) and a PhD in Linguistics-Lexicography from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has taught English as a Foreign Language at all levels of education and worked as an adjunct researcher at the Centre for the Greek Language. She is also involved in teaching the module “Teaching grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation” in the distance teacher training programme “Routes in teaching Greek as a foreign language” run by the Centre for the Greek Language. Her research interests are in the areas of lexicology, (monolingual/ bilingual) lexicography and vocabulary acquisition. In particular, her research focuses on the application of Cognitive Linguistics (CMT, Frame Semantics) and Corpus Linguistics in the study of polysemy and phraseology. Her work has been presented in international conferences and published in conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals (e.g. International Journal of Lexicography, InTRAlinea, Constructions and Frames, Springer Lexicography).
Lia Efstathiadi is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). She holds an M.A. in Theoretical & Applied Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, AUTH. Since 2010 she has taught the Language Mastery I & II courses (1st year), the Introduction to the Linguistic Research Paper (3rd year) and the Special elective: Variables affecting Second Language Learning (4th year). She takes a particular interest in Second Language Acquisition (Early FL Learning, The role of cognition in FLL), Bilingualism, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), Modality.
Paschalena C. Groutka holds an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, University of East Anglia, Great Britain. She teaches language and methodology courses. She takes a particular interest in vocabulary acquisition, technology in the classroom, and critical discourse analysis.
Dr Vasiliki Papaioannou is a state school EFL teacher. She is a graduate of the School of English and holds an MSc in Machine Translation (UMIST, UK), an MA in Language and Communication Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the School of English, Aristotle University. She is a KPG oral examiner and the coordinator of Erasmus+ projects. Her research interests concern foreign language learning, corpus linguistics, educational technology and case-based reasoning.
Dr Thomas Zapounidis is a teacher at the 3rd Experimental primary school of Evosmos. He holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a Ph.D. in Corpus Linguistics (The Young Learner Corpus of English: YoLeCorE), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has taught English as a Foreign Language (a) to young learners in both private and public sectors and to (b) adults. He is currently teaching (a) English and (b) chess in schools of the public sector. He has also taught the Lit1-120 undergraduate course for two semesters at the English Language and Literature department of the Aristotle university of Thessaloniki and is an oral examiner of the KPG English language certification exams. His research interests concern Corpus Linguistics and more specifically learner and pedagogic corpora. Other research interests include teaching English to young learners and young learners’ CEFR vocabulary analyses.