I am a professor in Applied Linguistics at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I hold a BA and a Ph.D. from the same School as well as an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, U.K. I teach  courses in language learning and teaching and I have taught English as a foreign language to learners aged from 4 to 64 years old. My research interests and publications concern second language acquisition and teaching (with a focus on English and Greek) and early bilingualism. My research has been published in proceedings of international conferences, journals and books.  I am the editor of the Journal of Applied Linguistics of the Greek Association of Applied Linguistics and have co-edited two volumes of selected papers in theoretical and applied linguistics as well as two academic books.