Christina Nicole Giannikas

Christina Nicole Giannikas holds a PhD in the field of Applied Linguistics. She is an education and research consultant and has worked with publishers, Ministries of Education and educational institutions worldwide. Christina also works in Higher Education where she lectures courses in Applied Linguistics and is an experienced teacher trainer of pre-service and in-service teacher education programs in Cyprus, Greece and the UK. She specializes in the areas of early language learning, age-appropriate digital pedagogies, digital literacies, assessment, and Teacher Education. Christina has edited and authored a number of books, journal papers, book chapters, and teacher education articles and has been invited to present her work across Europe, Asia, and the United States. For the last four years, Christina has been serving as Chair of the EuroCALL Teacher Education SIG and recently became the EuroCALL National Contact for Greece. She is an invited research collaborator of FLETATIS (Foreign Language Education through Applied Technologies) and EnA research Group at OsloMet.

Publications

Transferring Language Learning and Teaching From Face-to-Face to Online Settings
Christina Nicole Giannikas. © 2022. 382 pages.
Language teaching programs have to respond to the need for distance education, with teachers working to transfer their material onto online platforms and/or learning management...
Digital Literacy in Language Education: The COVID-19 Era of Cyprus
Christina Nicole Giannikas, Dina Tsagari, Trisevgeni Liontou. © 2022. 14 pages.
The abrupt shift to online learning and teaching shocked the majority of the language education community who had to become familiar with online tools, resources, and adjust...
Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children's Language Education
Christina Nicole Giannikas. © 2021. 273 pages.
Educating children and leading them towards the path of bilingualism is a valuable and challenging task for any educator. Effective language teaching can contribute to young...
Performance Assessment in Teacher Education Programs: Direct Evaluation of Teaching Ability
Christina Nicole Giannikas. © 2021. 16 pages.
Performance assessment has emerged as a useful measure of teacher performance and is a valuable form of assessment. The chapter elaborates on the benefits of performance...
Effectively Incorporating Blogs for the L2 Literacy Development of Teenage Language Learners
Christina Nicole Giannikas. © 2020. 17 pages.
Digital technologies have become an important part of language learning and teaching across the globe at various levels of education. The advances in question have altered texts...