Language Education in Early Childhood Education

Current research:

1)  The maintenance and use of immigrant languages within the Greek diaspora and the Greek educational and social context

2) Bilingualism and education (focusing on educational practices on a preschool and primary school level)

3) Issues of translanguaging and educational  applications

4) Teaching of Greek as a second language

5) The teaching and learning of Chinese by Greek and English-speaking students

Since 2009 she has been the coordinator of Polydromo Group for bilingualism and multiculturalism in education and society (http://polydromo.web.auth.gr/index.php/en/) researching various aspect of language contact and learning.

She participates in the research programme  Migrant, “Investigation of adolescent digital literacy practices for the design of Modern Greek Language teaching to youth of new migration background” for the period 01/2020-06/2023, which is coordinated by prof Dimitris Koutsogiannis and in which, apart from AUTh, the University of Hamburg and Macquarie University (Australia) are participants.

Since 2020, as the director of the Confucius Institute of AUTh (http://confucius-institute.web.auth.gr/en/) she supervises its projects and researches the contact between Chinese and Greek and the teaching approaches that promote the learning of Chinese for speakers of Greek. 

 

Current research:

Teaching and Learning Language, Applied Linguistics, Language education for refugees and migrants, Language Acquisition and Development, Evaluation, design and development of educational material for literacy, Curriculum design, Second/foreign language learning, Semiotics, Visual semiotics, Analysis of Multimodal texts, ICT in Language Learning

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