KATERINA KOURKOULI

Dr. Katerina Kourkouli holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Faculty of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with specialization in Online Communities of Practice and distance education for teacher training. She also holds an M.A. in the teaching of English as a foreign/international language (Hellenic Open University) where she specialized in teacher education for english language teachers and a BA from the Faculty of English Language and Literature of the NKUA (specialization in Language-Linguistics). 
She teaches in the Postgraduate Programme “Teaching English as a Foreign/International Language” of the Hellenic Open University, she has provided undergraduate courses in tertiary education, she has been a member of the faculty of the National School of Public Administration and Local Government and the Training Institute of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government and she has been certified as a trainer of adults by the National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance. She has worked as an expert training material developer of the Institute of Educational Policy for the induction programme of newly appointed teachers of all teaching specialties in the Primary and Secondary Education, she has been a teacher educator in various teacher training courses, an adult educator and a state-school EFL teacher in secondary education. She also served as the Secretary of the NKUA Center of Excellence “Multilingualism and Language Policy”. 
She has been the author of chapters in books and has published papers on Online Communities of Inquiry and Practice, online communication and the effectiveness of teacher education courses in international refereed journals and conference proceedings. She has presented her work at international conferences and offered webinars and seminars to teachers in Greece and abroad. Her research interests include discourse analysis, adult education and lifelong learning, the professional development of teachers, distance education and communication for specific purposes. 
She is a member of the Greek Applied Linguistics Association (GALA), the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), and the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL).