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Foreign language textbook discourse and the pedagogization of the learner. In J. E. Alatis et al. (eds.) Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects. Georgetown Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1995, pp. 55-71.

Xenoglossi ekpedeftiki politiki: Anaparagogi tis ideologias tou glossismou. [Foreign language policy: Reproducing the ideology of linguicism]. Ischires ke asthenis glosses stin Europaiki Enosi: Opsis igemonismou. Praktika Imeridas [Proceedings of the Symposium on 'Strong' and 'Weak' Languages: Aspects of Hegemony in Europe]. Thessaloniki: Centre for the Greek Language, 1996, pp. 163-174.

Planning foreign language education: Planning hegemony. In Emilia Ribeiro-Pedro (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Discourse Analysis. Lisboa: Ediçoes Colibri, 1996, pp. 255-268.

Giving street directions: The silent role of women (co-authored with E. Ribeiro-Pedro). In A. Jaworski (ed.) Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The Hague: Mouton, 1997, pp. 215-38.

Prática ideológica em textos pedagógicos no ensino do Inglês como língua estrangeira. In E. Ribeiro-Pedro (ed.) Análise Crítica do Discurso. Lisboa: Caminho, 1997, pp. 225-260.

Una aproximacion politica a la planificacion de la ensenanza de lenguas extranjeras en la Union Europea. In L. Martin-Rojo and R. Whittaker (eds.) Poder-decir o el poder de los discursos. Madrid: Arrefice Producciones, S.L., 1998, pp. 149-168.

The conflictual subjectivity of the EFL practitioner. In A.-F. Christidis (ed.). 'Strong’ and 'Weak’ Languages in the European Union: Aspects of Hegemony. Vol. 2. Thessaloniki: Centre for the Greek Language, 1999, pp. 711-727. (Also available in Greek, same volume.)

Foreign language education for inter-lingual/cultural communication. Conference Report: Strategies for the Promotion of Linguistic Diversity in Europe, 2000, European Commission and the Council of Europe. www.promotietalen.nl/Engels/bp1.

Plurilingualism and heteroglossia in Europe. The challenge for alternative modes of language education. In Christidis, A.-F. (ed.) Langue, Langues en Europe. Athens: The Ministry of National Education and the Centre for the Greek Language, 2001, pp. 71-78. (Also available in Greek, same volume.)

European discourses of homogenisation within the discourse of language planning. In E. Kitis (ed.) The Other Within, Vol. II. Thessaloniki: Athanassios A. Altitzis, 2001, pp.23-35.

Linguoracism in European foreign language education discourse. In M. Riesigl and R. Wodak (Eds.) The Semiotics of Racism: Approaches in Critical Discourse Analysis. Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2001, pp. 177-198.

Re-designing public document texts: Re-constructing social relations (co-authored with Sophia Marmaridou), Folia Linguistica. Folia Linguistica XXXV/1-2, 2001,  pp. 183-196.

21st century: Sociopolitical changes and new forms of communication. Proceedings of the International Conference entitled "Language and Culture" organized by the NKUA, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, 2002, Gelbesis publishing, pp. 71-97.

The marketisation of (counter)discourses of English as a global(ising) Language. In M. Kalantzis, G. Varnava-Skoura and B. Cope (eds.) Learning for the Future: New Worlds, New Literacies, New Learning, New People. theUniversityPress.com (Australia): Common Ground Publishing, 2002. (Also available in Greek: Varnava-Skoura, G., Research Views, Educational Perspectives. 2003.

Programmatismos koinonikis kai ekpaideftikis glossikis politikis. [Planning social and educational policy.] Glosologia: Periodical for General and Historical Linguistics (The Linguistics Society of Athens). Athens: Leader Books, 2003) pp. 35-42.

Linguistic diversity vs. national language protectionism: Language planning in action in Greece. Paper delivered at the annual conference of the European Federation of National Institutes for Language, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004.

Ideologias conflitantes em discoursos de resisténcia à hegemonia do inglês [Conflicting ideologies in discourses of resistance to the hegemony of English]. Fabio Lopes da Silva & Kanavillil Rajagopalan (eds.) A lingűística que nos faz falhar. Investigação crítica. Sao Paolo, Brazil: Parabola Editorial, 2004, pp. 53-58.

Certification de competences en langues etrangeres, multilinguisme et plurilinguisme. [Certification of foreign language competence, multilingualism and plurilingualism]. In Langue nationales et plurilinguisme: Initiatives Grecques. Athens: The Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs & Centre for the Greek Language, 2005, pp. 95-100. [Also available in Greek, same volume, pp. 51-56.

The Study of Language and (anti)ecological consciousness. Glossikos Periplous, edited by the Greek Linguistics Department of the NKUA. Athens: Kardamitsas publications (published in Greek), 2006, pp. 55-87.

Mediation in communication, language teaching and testing. Journal of Applied Linguistics, No. 22. Thessaloniki: Hellenic Association of Applied Linguistics, 2006, pp. 9-35.

O logos tis ftochias [The language of poverty]. Licht und Wärme, Linguistics volume, in memory of A.-F. Christidids, Μaria Theodoropoulou (ed.), Thessaloniki: Centre for the Greek Language, 2007, pp. 394-424.

Theorizing New English(es). The double contingency of postcoloniality and globality. Introduction to the special issue of the European Journal of English Studies (co-authored with M. Karavanda and B. Mitsikopoulou), 12/1, April 2008, pp.1-14 (Publication of Taylor & Francis, Routledge).

Response No. 3 to Robert Phillipson’s article entitled Lingua franca or lingua frankensteinia? English in European integration and globalization. World Englishes, 27/2, Blackwell publishing, 2008.

Language issues and language policies in Greece. In Gerhard Stickel (ed.) National and European Language Policies. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture, 73. Frankfurt, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2008, pp. 53-70.

Los discursos que moldean la subjectividad periferica del docente de ingles como lengua extrangera. [Discourses shaping the subjectivity of the periphery EFL teacher]. Educación y Pedagogía, Vol. XX May-August, 2008, University of Antioquia, Colombia.

Towards a corpus-based approach to modelling language production of foreign language learners in communicative contexts (co-authored with V. Gotsoulia. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Association for Computational Linguistics Anthology, 2011.

Multi- and monolingualism in foreign language education in Εurope. In Gerhard Stickel, G. & Carrier, M. (ed.) The Role of Language Education in Creating a Multilingual Europe. Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 47-60.

Social meanings in global-glocal language proficiency exams. In C. Tsagari, S. Papadima-Sophocleous & S. Ioannou-Georgiou (eds.) Language Testing and Assessment around the Globe: Achievements and Experiences. Language Testing and Evaluation series, Peter Lang 2013.

Testing and teaching mediation. Directions in Language Teaching and Testing. Athens: RCeL publications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2013.

Setting standards for multilingual curricula to teach and test foreign languages (co-authored with V. Gotsoulia). In Bernard Spolsky, Ofra Inbar-Lourie, Michal Tannenbaum (eds.) Challenges for Language Education and Policy: Making Space for People, Routledge, 2015.

The Politics of Early Language Learning Instructional Materials for English for Young Learners, in Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen & Csilla Weninger (eds.), Language, Ideology and Education: The Politics of Textbooks in Language Education, Routledge, 2015.

Is ‘multilingualism’ taking a back seat in the EU? Time for action. In Gerhard Stickel & Pirkko Nuolijärvi (eds.) Language Use in Public Administration. Theory and Practice in the European States. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015.

Multilingualism language policy in the EU today: a paradigm shift in language education, TLC Journal of the International Language Association (ICC) & Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Volume 2 Issue 3, 2018 (doi: 10.29366/2018tlc.2.3).

The magic of language and language teaching. In Thomas Tinnefeld (Ed.) in collaboration with Martin East & Ronald Kresta: The Magic of Language - Productivity in Linguistics and Language Teaching. Saarbrücker Schriften zu Linguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik (SSLF), 2020 (ISBN 978-3-942949-30-9).

Critical analysis of language and the construction of (anti)ecological consciousness. In Salomi Boukala & Anastasia Stamou (Eds.) Critical Analysis of Language: (De)constructing the Greek Reality. Athens: Nissos Publishing, 2021 (in Greek).

A data-driven curriculum and mediation for plurilingual education, Chapter 7 in David Little & Neus Figueras (Eds.) Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume. Multilingual Matters, 2022.

Critical reflections on case studies, in North, B., Piccardo, E., Goodier, T., Fasoglio, D. Margonis, R. & Rüschoff, B. (Eds.) Enriching 21st Century Language Education: The CEFR Companion Volume, Examples from Practice. Council of Europe publications (in press).

BOOKS AND JOURNALS


The EFL Textbook and Ideology. Athens: N.C. Grivas Publications, 1992.

Readings in Language and Ideology (ed.). Athens: The University of Athens publications, 2000.

Language Education and Foreign Language Pedagogy: The Politics of ELT. Athens: The University of Athens publications, 2000.

Issues in the Didactics of Languages. Athens: The University of Athens publications, 2001.

Practices of English language Teaching. Athens: The University of Athens publications, 2002.

Glossikos Ipologistis. Periodiki Ekdosi tou Kentrou Ellinikis Glossas gia ti Glossa ke ti glossiki agogi. [Periodical of the Centre for the Greek Language on Language and Language Education]. Vol. 1, 2001.

Glossikos Ipologistis. Periodiki Ekdosi tou Kentrou Ellinikis Glossas gia ti Glossa ke ti glossiki agogi. [Periodical of the Centre for the Greek Language on Language and Language Education]. Vol. 2, 2002.

Applied Linguistics Reader and Workbook. Athens: The University of Athens publications, 2002.

The Hegemony of English (co-authored with D. Macedo and P. Gounari). Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers. [This book won the 2004 award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), 2003.

Politics of Linguistic Pluralism and the Teaching of Languages in Europe (co-edited with B. Mitsikopoulou). Athens: Metaixmio Publishers and University of Athens, 2004

Lengua, Ideología y Poder: La hegemonía del inglés (co-authored with Donaldo Macedo & Panagiota Gounari). In Spanish translation. Crítica y Fundamentos 4. Barcelona: Editorial Graō, 2005.

A Hegemonia da Lingua Inglesa (co-authored with Donaldo Macedo & Panagiota Gounari). In Portuguese translation. Lisboa: Edicoes Pedago, 2006

Special issue on “New Englishes” of the European Journal of English Studies (co-edited with M. Karavanda and B. Mitsikopoulou), Vol. 12, No. 1, April 2008, pp.1-14, Publication of Taylor & Francis, Routledge.

The Hegemony of English (Second and enriched edition, with an introduction by Robert Phillipson) in a Greek. Epikentro editions, 2010.

KPG Handbook: Performance Descriptors and Specifications (The Greek Foreign Language Examinations for the State Certificate of Language Proficiency). Athens: RCeL publications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2013.

Foreign Language Education to Promote Multilingualism in Greece Today: Approaches and Teaching Practices (Edited with Kia Karavas). In Greek. Athens: RCeL publications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Institute of Educational Policy.

Studies for the Implementation of the English for young Learners Programme. In Greek.  Athens: RCeL publications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2013.

The Politics of Foreign Language Policies, Teaching and Testing (with a foreword by Robert Phillipson), Athens: Pedio publishers, 2020

Mediation as Linguistic and Cultural Negotiation of Meanings and Plurilingualism (edited collection), Routledge, forthcoming.

Advisor or reviewer for:

  • European Journal of English Studies (Taylor & Francis, Routledge)
  • Language Policy (Springer publishers)
  • Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (Equinox)
  • Journal of Applied Linguistics (Hellenic Association of Applied Linguistics)
  • Porta Linguarum (Revista Internacional de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras)
  • Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition (sponsored by the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) 

 

BOOK SERIES, e-JOURNALS AND e-SERVICES

Director of the University of Athens gender studies series (with Prof. Stella Vosniadou)

  • Volume 1: Feministikes paremvaseis stis synchrones epistimes [Feminist interventions in contemporary disciplines: A mosaic of examples]. Academic editing and prologue by Bessie Dendrinos, copy editing, translation and introduction by Eugenia Sifaki.
  • Volume 2: To fylo, to soma kai I emfyli diafora: I synantisi dikaiou kai koinonikis provlimatikis [The body and gendered differences. Law and social problematics]. Author coordination, editing and introduction by Marina Maropoulou.
  • Volume 3: Fylo-sofikes diamesolaveisis. Meletes se kritiki analysi logou. [‘Gender-sophic’ mediations. Papers in Critical Discourse Analysis.] Academic editing and prologue Bessie Dendrinos, copy editing and translation Ada Korda.

Director of Fylopaedia, the first Greek gender studies e-encyclopaedia. Editor: Eugenia Sifaki.

General editor of RCEL publications

  • Mentoring Student Teachers of English: A Handbook, by Kia Karavas
  • The KPG Speaking test in English: A Handbook, edited by Kia Karavas
  • The KPG Writing Test in English: A Handbook, edited by Bessie Mitsikopoulou

e-Journals editor:

  • DIRECTIONS in Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment
  • The RCeL Research Periodical (featuring, on a regular basis, invited but peer reviewed papers concerning RCEL related projects)
  • ΠΕ@Π an e-journal in Greek about teaching English to young and very young learners