Maria Mitsiaki is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at DUTH. Her research interests center on L2 acquisition and teaching, content-based language teaching, pedagogical lexicography, language assessment, and curricula development. She is currently Principal Investigator on the interdisciplinary HFRI-funded research project “School Illustrated Science Dictionary: Creating Research & Innovation Hubs for Scientific and Academic Literacy in Basic Education”. She represents her institution in the 2022 Erasmus+ KA2 Partnership “Reinventing mainstream classrooms”. Since 2018, she has been engaged as supervisor in the development and implementation of the National School Curriculum of Greek as a Second Language in Cyprus. She has also participated in the development of a community-based curriculum for teaching Greek as a heritage language in the US (2021). She has taught Greek as a L2 and L1 for 15 years in all levels of education and she delivers training courses to practicing Greek language teachers in Greece, Cyprus, and the US.
