Roula Tsokalidou

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• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

This book introduces aspects of the Chinese Language, grammar, sociolinguistic aspects, the importance of 汉字 and invites learners to try and access the special features of Chinese. It is written in English, Greek and Chinese! Many thanks to professor Li Wei for writing the chapter on Chinese Sociolinguistics and Dr Salvatore Giuffre for writing the...

This booklet is the final product of a two-year long project of the Confucius Institute at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. It aims to introduce aspects of the Chinese language and culture to young children, employing a translanguaging pedagogical perspective, where Chinese, English and Greek cooperate to assist the understanding a...

This paper, titled "Translanguaging and identity: friend or gharīb", is based on the experiences and challenges of some of the participants in my 2017 research, which led to the book SiDaYes: beyond bilingualism to translanguaging. Here I will attempt to highlight some aspects of being translingual, which I believe can be of interest and will most...

After the collapse of the European model of communism in 1989-1991, the interest of many Marxist economists and thinkers turned exclusively to the model of communism of the East. The economic choices of Vietnam and of China came to the focus of the estimation of scientists on the subject of the ways of the Eastern communist countries which would gu...

This paper, titled “Translanguaging and identity: friend or gharīb”, is based on the experiences and challenges of some of the participants in my 2017 research, which led to the book SiDaYes: beyond bilingualism to translanguaging. Here I will attempt to highlight some aspects of being translingual, which I believe can be of interest and will most...

This paper presents a case study, conducted in the Greek educational context, as part of the European collaborative project (Horizon 2020), called 'ISOTIS', including 17 partners and 11 countries. The project ISOTIS aimed to contribute to effective policy and practice development in order to effectively combat educational inequalities in early chil...

In this paper we will focus on data from bi/multilingual educators and discuss aspects of translanguaging as a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (Paris and Alim, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies. Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World, Teachers College Press, New York, 2017). The data from the bi/multilingual educators come from a recen...

Abstract. This article presents a case study, conducted in the Greek educational context, as part of the European collaborative project, called "ISOTIS", funded by the European Union, including 17 partners and 11 countries. The main aim of the case study was the support of students' first languages and cultures through home-based and classroom-base...

In this chapter we, first, attempt to raise some issues concerning the concept of ‘translanguaging’ (Baker, 2011; García, 2011) and, second, we present and discuss a case of translanguaging in practice in an English as a Foreign Language class. In our attempt to expand the boundaries of the definition of ‘translanguaging,’ we propose that it may be...

This paper explores the language views and practices of postgraduate student-teachers attending a distance-learning Master’s Programme of a Greek University, entitled “Language Education for Refugees and Migrants” (LRM). Teachers and professionals working with language learners in linguistically diverse contexts make up an interesting research samp...

In this chapter we present and discuss aspects of the “Language Education for Refugees and Migrants (LRM)” Master’s program, which was launched by the Hellenic Open University in 2016. We focus on key elements of the curriculum design , such as digitality, criticality, interdisciplinarity , creativity, collaborative learning and a practice-oriented...

This paper reports on the good practices followed by the tutors of HOU new Master's Programme, entitled "Language Education for Refugees and Migrants" (LRM). After presenting the profile and rationale of LRM, we focus on the online Tutor-Students Sessions (TSSs) and present the tutors' practices before, during and after the programmed TSSs, as well...

Perhaps the most important part of Tsokalidou’s book is the importance she assigns to the role of translanguaging in creativity and how speakers feel about it. Translanguaging, as you will see in this book, offers us all the opportunity to always be at the crossroads in which we language, think, and create in the world. The question for all of us a...

This chapter has a twofold focus. Firstly, it presents the language views and practices of 19 bilingual students of Albanian immigrant background attending a Greek primary school and kindergarten. The data are derived from an ethnographic study which investigated the children’s, their teachers’ and parents’ language views and practices in order to...

Η παρούσα έρευνα μελετά τις καλές πρακτικές τις οποίες εφάρμοσαν τα μέλη ΣΕΠ του νέου Μεταπτυχιακού Προγράμματος Σπουδών του Ε.Α.Π. με τίτλο “Language Education for Refugees and Migrants” (LRM). Μετά από μία σύντομη παρουσίαση της φιλοσοφίας και της δομής του LRM, εστιάζουμε στο ζήτημα των online Ομαδικών Συμβουλευτικών Συναντήσεων (Ο.Σ.Σ.) και παρ...

This paper reports on the good practices followed by the tutors of HOU new Master's Programme, entitled "Language Education for Refugees and Migrants" (LRM). After presenting the profile and rationale of LRM, we focus on the online Tutor-Students Sessions (TSSs) and present the tutors' practices before, during and after the programmed TSSs, as well...

This paper reports on the good practices followed by the tutors of HOU new Master's Programme, entitled "Language Education for Refugees and Migrants" (LRM). After presenting the profile and rationale of LRM, we focus on the online Tutor-Students Sessions (TSSs) and present the tutors' practices before, during and after the programmed TSSs, as well...

This paper presents data from two studies—a nationwide quantitative research and an ethnographic study—on immigrant parents’ perspectives about heritage language maintenance and education in Greek state schools. The quantitative data come from a large-scale questionnaire survey, which aimed at the investigation of the needs and requirements for the...

In this chapter we first attempt to highlight some of the issues related to the concept and practice of ‘translanguaging’ as proposed by Baker (2011) and García (2012) within the broader context of language contact. We will then propose an approach towards translanguaging which differentiates it from code-switching through examples from bi/multilin...

This article examines views of Albanian immigrant parents regarding home-language maintenance in Greece. It aims to reveal language ideologies in relation to broader ideologies about schooling and education. Following a qualitative interpretative approach, we conducted semi-structured individual and group interviews with 19 parents of bilingual stu...

The effort to delineate and identify communication and ourselves, within a limited or a broader community, lies within the context of sociolinguistics. This is so as through our own linguistic production, the voice of " insignificant people " , we can approach greater issues, such as communication and education. Characteristically, Joshua Fishman,...

This paper presents data from two studies – a nationwide quantitative research and an ethnographic study – on Greek schoolteachers' attitudes towards immigrant pupils' bilingualism. The quantitative data come from a large-scale questionnaire survey, which aimed at the investigation of the needs and requirements for the implementation of a pilot pro...

This paper discusses the micro-level ideologies of four teachers in mainstream Greek schools concerning linguistic diversity, bilingualism, second language learning and minority language maintenance. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with the teachers and observations in the school context which focused on their views and at...

This paper presents the results of a research project involving bilingual children in selected primary schools in Volos, Greece, focusing mainly on the findings that have led to the proposal of two class activities, with the aim of promoting 'bilingual awareness' in primary schools. The activities are the creation of 'The bilingual portrait' and th...

This paper reports on a project examining the relationship between program model, sociolinguistic factors, and linguistic outcomes in a small sample of school languages other than English (LOTE) programs in Victoria. The languages are Chinese, German, Greek and Italian. Issues under consideration include: content-based versus language-object progra...