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.