Duration: November 2023 – July 2024

Project Leader: D. Papadopoulou

Assistants: Nina Douka, Antonis Konstantinidis, Ilias Mittas, Stavros Tsakiridis

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in cooperation with UNICEF and with the support of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and the Institute of Educational Policy organizes a 9-month (November 2023 – July 2024) training seminar entitled “Teach4Integration”. The seminar is addressed to educators teaching students with a refugee/migrant background and includes the units presented here.

For more information about the seminar click here.

Duration: November 2022 - June 2024

Project Leader: A. Paspali

Lab: LingLab, Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Collaborators: D. Papadopoulou, T. Marinis, A. Alexiadou, S. Varlokosta

This project aims to explore voice acquisition and processing in Greek children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Non-active voice morphology has been found to be acquired relatively late (around age 5;0) in typical monolingual acquisition in languages such as English. Children with DLD show persistent and unresolved difficulties even at ages 11;0-13;0 accompanied with lower grammar, vocabulary, and working memory skills (but normal non-verbal intelligence and intellectual ability). These difficulties can hinder fluent communication and can impact performance in school. They are also more persistent in languages with complex voice systems (i.e., Greek) and a high degree of ambiguity, where the same grammatical form is used to mark various verb categories and not only passive verbs. Within a psycholinguistic framework, this project aims to test the acquisition and online processing of voice in the comprehension of Greek children with DLD. Furthermore, in line with research on clinical markers in DLD production, this project will explicitly address whether voice can be considered a potential clinical marker for DLD in Greek, both in terms of sensitivity and in terms of specificity. Finally, the project aims to compare DLD children with bilingual children to tap into the different processing strategies between atypical language development and bilingualism.

Duration: January 2020 - February 2024

Project Leader: D. Koutsogiannis

Research Members: St. Antonopoulou (Post-doctoral researcher), A.Konstantinidis (PhD student), A. Rothoni (Post-doctoral researcher)

Collaborating Partners: J. Androutsopoulos, P. Vlachopoulos, M. Möllering, P. Tsokalidou, V. Lytra, T. Spilioti

Migrant is a project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (H.F.R.I.) for the period 01/2020-01/2023 following the 1st Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to Support Faculty Members & Researchers and Procure High-Value Research Equipment.

Research objectives: The drafting of specific proposals regarding Modern Greek language education abroad, which will be in line with young new migrants’ needs. These needs will be pinpointed following an extensive mapping of youth literacy practices. The final proposals will eventually relate to the design of Greek language teaching material.

For more information check out Migrant’s website.

Duration: January – September 2022

Project Leader: D. Papadopoulou

Assistants: Nina Douka, Maria Tzikou, Andreas Charatzidis

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in cooperation with UNICEF and with the support of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and the Institute of Educational Policy organizes a 9-month (January-September 2022) training seminar entitled “Teach4Integration”. The seminar is addressed to educators teaching students with a refugee/migrant background and includes the units presented here.

For more information about the seminar click here.

Duration: December 2019-December 2022

Project Leader: A. Tantos

(Current) Members: D. Papadopoulou, N. Amvrazis, E. Drakonaki (PhD student)

Latent Aspects in L2 Acquisition (LAL2A) is granted with a 3-year fund by the Hellenic Foundation for Reseach & Innovation (H.F.R.I.) within the 1st Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to Support Faculty Members & Researchers and Procure High-Value Research Equipment. The aim of H.F.R.I.’s call was two-fold: on the one hand to support the implementation of selected research projects of high scientific calibre and on the other hand to procure research equipment of high value and strategic importance, as part of the effort to support research activities in the country.
LAL2A’s proposal has been evaluated in two stages by 4 external reviewers and was ranked 7th with score 93/100 among the 96 proposals in the area of Humanities for category I.

Take a look at the project’s webpage.

Duration: 2019-2022

Project Leaders: Prof. Bongartz University of Cologne & Prof. Papadopoulou (A.U.Th.)

(Current) Members: M. Andreou

The main aim of the proposed research project is to explore language teaching approaches in multilingual environments in Germany and Greece. Finally, aiming to further utilize the data of the previous project and maximize their profit, we will compile a German-Greek open corpus. The corpus will be used (a) for academic purposes, i.e. for researchers that are interested in the study of German-Greek bilingual language development and in heritage languages, and (b) for the general public, i.e. educators/teachers and parents, who are interested in the typical bilingual development and language difficulties. The outcomes of the proposed project are expected to be influential on several levels. First, the project will set up a network cluster between participating institutions of higher education and administrative bodies in Greece and Germany. It will also enable the research partners to discuss the language experiences in the participating countries, and submit recommendations to the respective ministries (education, culture).

Take a look at the project’s webpage.

• To explore the refugee & migrant children’s grammatical and vocabulary knowledge in their L2, through the use of standardized tests
• To employ a series of educational techniques involving implicit (e.g. Processing Instruction) as well as explicit pedagogical tasks, aiming at improving and accelerating bilingual children’s grammatical and lexical performance in the L2
• To conduct pre- and post-tests, whose aim is to test the migrant children’s performance on a series of linguistic phenomena, such as vocabulary, determiners, agreement, tense and aspect, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the educational techniques in several time periods
• To investigate which educational techniques are most appropriate for migrant children and which educational techniques work best for the linguistic phenomena under investigation
• To explore whether factors such as (bi)literacy and cognitive abilities have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the educational techniques.

You can find information about teaching bilingual children here.

Training Seminars for teachers involved in the education of children with refugee & migrant background

Dates: January 2020-March 2020

2-day training workshop on “Education of children with refugee & migrant background”

Dates: 30 November 2019 & 1 December 2019

Program

Material