Associate Professor, Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace

Maria Mitsiaki is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Democritus University of Thrace. Her research interests center on second language acquisition and teaching, content-based language teaching, pedagogical lexicography, language assessment, and curricula development. She has participated in various research projects on second language education (migrants, refugees, minorities, Roma). She is currently Principal Investigator on the interdisciplinary HFRI-funded research project “School Illustrated Science Dictionary: Creating Research & Innovation Hubs for Scientific and Academic Literacy in Basic Education”. She represents her institution in the 2022 Erasmus+ KA2 Partnership “Reinventing mainstream classrooms”. Since 2018, she has been engaged as supervisor in the development and implementation of the National School Curriculum of Greek as a Second Language in Cyprus. She has also participated in the development of a community-based curriculum for teaching Greek as a heritage language in the US (2021). She has taught Greek as a second/foreign and first language for 15 years in all levels of education and she delivers teacher training courses to practicing Greek language teachers in Greece, Cyprus, and the US.

Session: Advancing inclusion and diversity in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Wednesday 5 October 2022, 11:30 -13:00