Christine Calfoglou

Hellenic Open University · School of Humanities

Visual literacy, involving “an interconnected set of practices, habits, and values for participating in visual culture” (Murphy, forthcoming), is a communication prerequisite in the contemporary world. One of the ways in which it can be developed so that participation in visual culture is possible is through “critical, reflective and creative engag...

Critical thinking and metacognition are two concepts that have played an increasingly important role in education and have been the focus of a substantial body of research related to the skill of Reading (Mohseni, Seifoori & Ahangari, 2020; Navarro, 2021). Poetry, on the other hand, though much discussed and analyzed as a genre, has not been adequa...

As a reaction to the compartmentalized way in which the foreign language and grammar in particular are usually treated in foreign language coursebooks and syllabi generally, I propose sensitizing English language teachers to unification possibilities, which would involve the joint treatment of apparently disparate phenomena on the basis of content,...

The relationship between the visual and the verbal in conceptual art is a particularly fruitful instantiation of intersemiosis. In this article, we discuss conceptual artwork interpretation on the basis of this relationship and consider issues of temporal precedence, performativity, and illocutionary force in conjunction with conceptual art immater...

Distance education has fast become, from an alternative option for anyone wishing to pursue academic studies (at undergraduate or postgraduate level) on a part-time basis or at a distance to a viable and entirely competitive tertiary educational route that prioritises meeting the needs of different students while making the best of current ICT infr...

The present study engages distance learning students in providing feedback on their peers' written assignment and subsequently gauges learners' response to this feedback. Four groups of Hellenic Open University M.Ed. TESOL learners, a total of 78 students, were divided into feedback givers and receivers and, once the feedback provision process had...

Affect and the multi-sensoriality of the digital medium

The immersion properties of digital culture and its all-engulfing effects have been repeatedly underlined in the literature (see Polimeris & Calfoglou, Art in the globalised era: A disembodied journey with traces in the past. In V. Katsoni, (Ed.), Cultural Tourism in a Digital Era. First International Conference Iacudit Athens, 2014 (pp. 59–79). He...

In this paper we explore the nature of art in the globalised, post-modernist era, an era paradoxically combining unity and fragmentation. In doing so, we postulate a working hypothesis to the effect that a journey involves the potential of an experience that requires some kind of bodily presence, in our case, the ‘body’ of the work of art or/and th...

This article explores the function of translation as representation. Drawing on Peirce's semiotics, it argues in favour of translation acting as an interpreting thought, an interpretant that determines the relations between the sign and its object. It then goes into the causal, iconic aspect of these relations and attempts to illustrate the working...

This paper explores learners' perception of written comments in an academic distance education context. An extension of a small-scale study on learners' preferred mode of written comments (Κάλφογλου 2003), it is based on the analysis of the responses to a questionnaire on various types of stylistically, conceptually and macrostructurally orientated...

Drawing on Optimality Theory in compiling a translation framework for the language class

The 'peripheral' gains dominance: verb-subject order in poetry