Migration and Language Education in Southern Europe

Marina Mattheoudakis is a Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics in the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she also serves as Director of the Lab on Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment. Her main research interests lie in the areas of foreign language teaching methodology, bilingualism and bilingual education, and corpus linguistics. She has published extensively in journals, books, and conference proceedings. Eleni Griva is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece, where she is also the Director of the Research Institute of Greek Language and the Postgraduate Program “Educational Studies and Information Technologies”. Her main interests lie in the areas of teaching an L2/FL to young learners, intercultural communication, teaching Greek as an L2/FL, language learning strategies, bilingualism/multilingualism, and alternative assessment. She has published eight books and more than 230 papers. Maria Moumtzi is a Primary School EFL Teacher at the 6th Primary School of Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been the Secretary of the Greek Applied Linguistics Association for 35 years and a member of its Board since 2014. Her main interests lie in teaching EFL to young learners, teaching and learning strategies, and alternative assessment.