Georgia was born and raised in Greece but has been living in the United States since 2018. She has been a language educator for about twenty years, having majored in linguistics and teaching Modern Greek as a second/foreign language. Her research interests lie mainly in the areas of language teaching, morphology, word-formation processes, and language codification. She have two children, ages 16 and 13, and she loves travelling and hiking.
Recipient of the Penn Language Center Star Award for Innovative Use of Technology, 2020-2021
Office Hours
By appointment
Education
- PhD General Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Greek Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2016 (Distinction)
- M.A. in Teaching Modern Greek as a native and second/foreign language, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Greek Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2004 (with honors)
- DESS (Master's degree) in Lexicography and Terminology, Université Lille III, 2003 (mention: Assez bien).
- B.A. in Greek Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Greek Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1999. Major: General & Applied Linguistics
Research Interests
Foreign language teaching Lexicography Vocabulary evolution (word borrowing, word-formation processes in neologisms)
Courses Taught
- GREK 0180 Elementary Modern Greek I
- GREK 0280 Elementary Modern Greek II
- GREK 0380 Intermediate Modern Greek I
- GREK 0480 Intermediate Modern Greek II
- GREK 0388 Greek for Heritage Speakers I
- GREK 0488 Greek/Heritage Speakers II
Selected Publications
- “Neologisms and Greek language teaching as a second or foreign language”. Presented at the 1st International Conference Méthodal, Cyprus, September 2016
- “Prefix conceptual salience in L2 acquisition and processing” (in collaboration). Poster presented at the 11th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Cyprus, June 2017, Mediterranean Morphology Meetings; Vol. 11 (2017): Morphological Variation: Synchrony and Diachrony, pp. 81-92.
- “The proposed Dictionary of the Learned Elements of Modern Greek (DLEMOG)” (in collaboration). Presented at the 18th International Conference EURALEX, Ljubljana, July 2018
- “The use of authentic materials in teaching Greek as a foreign language”, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), webinar presented on 01/28/2019.
- “Critical literacy and lexicographic discourse”. Presented at the 14th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, Patras-Greece, September 2019
- “Emprunts sociétaux de la langue Anglo-américaine en Grec Moderne” (in collaboration). Chapter in an edited book Lexique, sémantique, néologie, emprunt, (eds) Ieda Maria Alves, Salah Mejri, Jean-François Sablayrolles, 2019, Sao Paolo: Humanitas, pp. 305-325 [in French].
- “K-12 foreign language education: attitudes and perceptions, challenges and perspectives”. Chapter in an edited book, Routledge Library Editions (forthcoming).
Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece)
- Odyssey Charter School (Wilmington, DE)