Christine Niakaris

  

Bio

Christine Irvine-Niakaris has an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, University of Reading, UK and is currently studying for a Doctor of Education degree (EdD) in TESOL Applied Linguistics from the University of Bristol, UK. She is Director of the Center for Applied Linguistics and Language Studies at the Hellenic American Union and Director of the Master of Arts program in Applied Linguistics at the Hellenic American University. She has more than twenty years’ experience in teaching and teacher training in Greece, the UK and at the British Council, Bahrain. She has taught graduate courses as a visiting professor at Saint Michael's College, Vermont, US for ten consecutive summers (1990 – 2000), and is one of the founders of the Saint Michael's College/Hellenic American Union cooperative MA program in TESOL and the TESOL Diploma Program. She has also written several EFL textbooks and has provided strong support to the ELT community in Greece through her participation in an extensive outreach program for teachers of English in both private and state school sectors. Her current research is focused on teacher cognition for in-service teacher education.

33rd Annual TESOL Greece International Convention