Evdokia Pittas

University of Nicosia · Department of Education

The aim of this longitudinal study is to examine the contribution of morphological awareness to the prediction of reading and spelling in Greek. The target group (N = 404) consisted of children, aged 6-9 years at the start of the project, who learn literacy in Cyprus. Because there are no standardized measures of morphological awareness for Greek C...

This longitudinal study considers the contributions of language awareness to children’s learning to read and spell. The aim of the study was to examine whether the connection between phonemic awareness and literacy in Greek is constant over time even when appropriate controls are taken into account. I examined this hypothesis with Greek Cypriot chi...

The aim of this cross- sectional study was to investigate whether primary school students with Specific Learning Difficulties, aged 6 – 12, displayed behavioral problems and whether gender is associated with behavioral problems. The clinical group consisted of 100 students with Specific Learning Difficulties and the control group consisted of 100 t...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers’ practices at all education levels worldwide. Alternative educational practices are, in a smaller or larger extent, implemented online in response to the global pandemic, including early childhood and primary education. Access to recent research outcomes on effective approaches to quality online teaching...

This paper aims to provide a first systematic research overview of the effects of the pandemic on the educational performance of children with SEND according to children’s/youths and caregivers’ perspectives following the PRISMA statement. The studies, published between February 2020 and June 2022, were identified through the search of SCOPUS, EBSC...

Introduction This paper aims to provide a first systematic research overview of student learning outcomes in programs teaching school subjects through languages other than English (LOTE) which are not the mother tongue of the students, according to school- or researcher-administered assessments and stakeholder perspectives, following the PRISMA sta...

In view of the need for more cross-sectional studies in different socio-geographical contexts to investigate teachers’ perceptions regarding inclusion, the present study sets to explore early childhood teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion in a context where research on this topic is limited; Kingston, Jamaica. The target group consisted of nine (N...

The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has interrupted many routines and practices, including the education of young people. Many students are currently receiving some or all of their education online. Ensuring that online learning can be accessed by students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) can be a challenge. This guidance was written for tea...

The goal of the study reported on in this article was to determine whether the current biliteracy programme in Ghana (National Literacy Acceleration Program or NALAP) and the medium of instruction are considered as factors contributing to language and literacy learning of public school students according to teachers and parents. The target group (n...

The cross-sectional study examined primary and secondary teachers’ and students’ views regarding technology integration into teaching and learning in Muscat, Oman. The target group consisted of teachers (N=44) and students (N=219) from two bilingual and two international schools in Oman. Results showed that the majority of students use technology t...

This longitudinal study set out to examine the connection between dialect awareness and reading and spelling after including strict controls in the analysis. This hypothesis was examined with Greek Cypriot children (N=404) aged 6 to 10 who speak Greek Cypriot in most social contexts and learn to read and write in Standard Modern Greek. The first wa...

Abstract This study, which took place in a bidialectal setting, examined the extent to which dialect awareness in Time 1 can predict reading and spelling in Time 2. The children (N=49, 7- to 9-year olds) were learning literacy in Cyprus where a dialect is spoken in certain contexts but Standard Modern Greek is also widely used. Because there are n...