Research Group
University of Crete (UoC), E.ME.G.LO.
Laboratory on Language and Literature in Education (E.ME.G.LO.)
The Laboratory on Language and Literature in Education (E.ME.G.LO.) of the Department of Primary Education at the University of Crete aims to promote research in the fields of the humanities and social sciences and to foster their dynamic connection with contemporary educational practice.
Through interdisciplinary approaches and innovative pedagogical methods, EMEGLO focuses on research and education in the humanities, the empowerment of educators, the professional readiness of undergraduate and postgraduate students, the implementation of experiential learning activities, as well as the development of contemporary educational materials.
Vasia Tsami
Vasia Tsami is Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Language and Language Teaching at the Department of Primary Education of the University of Crete. She is the scientific coordinator of the Ingenium Education Lab Joint Project entitled “Bridging In-School and Out-of-School Literacy Practices: A Useful Online Toolkit for the Teacher” and a member of the Research Laboratory on Language and Literature in Education (EMEGLO) at the same department.
Her research interests fall within the field of educational and social approaches to language, with an emphasis on primary education. More specifically, her research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational programmes within the framework of critical literacy and multiliteracies, the critical analysis of school textbooks and texts from students’ out-of-school realities (humorous television series, advertisements, memes), as well as the study of students’ and teachers’ attitudes towards linguistic phenomena and contemporary teaching approaches. In parallel, she works on issues of (anti-)sexism, (anti-)racism, and liquid racism in education, developing educational proposals and teaching materials within the framework of inclusive education.
She has participated in national and international research projects concerning language, literacy, and education, with a particular emphasis on critical literacy, humorous discourse, language variation, the education of migrant and repatriated students, and the critical investigation of liquid racism in European public discourse.
She has published articles in international and Greek peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings. Her work has appeared in international journals such as The International Journal of Literacies, Pragmatics & Cognition, Discourse, Context & Media, European Journal of Humour Research, Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics, and Journal of Greek Linguistics. In 2020, she received the International Award for Excellence from The Learner Research Network for the article “Mass Culture, Language Variation, and Critical Literacy: Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Teaching Intervention”, co-authored with Anna Fterniati and Argiris Archakis.
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2676-4802
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_Pra29AAAAAJ
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vasia-Tsami
- https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56083299700
- https://upatras.academia.edu/VasiaTsami
- https://ptde.edc.uoc.gr/en/personnel/item/385-vasia-tsami_en
Paraskevi Thomou
Dr Paraskevi Thomou is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the Department of Primary Education, University of Crete, Greece and director of the Research Laboratory on Language and Literature in Education (EMEGLO).
Her research interests include vocabulary and phraseology of Modern Greek, learning and teaching of vocabulary and teaching of the Greek language. More specifically, she has published research on figurative language and teaching and has written two books: “Lexical issues of the Greek language: theory and applications” (2023) and “Dictionary of contemporary phraseology of the Greek language” (2026). She has published in international journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings.
She is the coordinator of the research project “Online Dictionary of Phraseologisms” and member of the Ingenium Education Lab project “Bridging in-school and out-of-school literacy practices: a useful online toolkit for the teacher”. She has been the coordinator of the research projects “Compilation of a thesaurus of phrasal patterns of Modern Greek” and “Phraseology realization in a Modern Greek language corpus” and has participated as a partner at the “Global teacher Education” Erasmus+ project and “Teach for integration” project as a coordinator of the module “Teaching Greek as a second language”. For many years in the past she has participated in the project “Greek language education abroad” in compiling books, educational material and a dictionary of multi-word units.
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6003-661X
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2OPePO4AAAAJ&hl=el
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paraskevi-Thomou https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57224852465
- https://crete.academia.edu/ParaskeviThomou
- https://ptde.edc.uoc.gr/el/personnel/item/114-vivi_thomou_el
Anastasia Mountoufari
Anastasia Mountoufari is a graduate of the Department of Primary Education at University of Crete and a postgraduate student at Hellenic Open University in the field of Linguistics. At the same time, she participates as a member of the research team in the Ingenium Education Lab project entitled “Bridging in-school and out-of-school literacy practices: a useful online toolkit for the teacher”, within the broader framework of her research activity at the Laboratory on Language and Literature in Education (E.ME.G.LO.). Her main research interests focus on students’ literacy practices, critical literacy, and multiliteracies. In addition, she actively contributes to the promotion of the laboratory’s initiatives and to strengthening its connection with education and the wider community.