Books by Bessie Mitsikopoulou
Mitsikopoulou, B. (2014). Rethinking Online Education: Media, Ideologies, and Identities. New York: Routledge.
"Rethinking Online Education" analyzes online educational materials on the recent Iraq war aimed ... more "Rethinking Online Education" analyzes online educational materials on the recent Iraq war aimed to be used by U.S. educators in elementary and secondary schools. It is suggested that far from being ideologically neutral, these educational materials weave together resources which provide a coherent view of the Iraq war theme, and can thus been seen as constituting a kind of an informal curriculum. Mitsikopoulou argues that the teacher resources adhere to different pedagogical discourses and constitute materializations of two broad approaches to education. A number of pedagogical issues are also raised in the discussion: What is the difference between critical thinking and critical pedagogy? How is the genre of lesson plan realized in different teaching philosophies and how do curricular texts change when they are delivered online? This important book highlights the need to explore the new forms of textuality which emerge from online curricular materials and to develop an understanding of the processes of text composition, distribution and consumption.
Special Issues by Bessie Mitsikopoulou
Mitsikopoulou, B. (2008). (Ed). Branding Political Entities in a Globalised World. Journal of Language and Politics 7 (3): 353-508. John Benjamins.
Dendrinos, B., Karavanta, A. and Mitsikopoulou, B. (2008). (Eds). New Englishes. European Journal of English Studies 12 (1): 1-122. Routledge.
Language Textbooks by Bessie Mitsikopoulou
Dendrinos, B., & Mitsikopoulou, B. (2012). KPG Exam Preparation in School: The A level (A1 & A2) Exam in English. Student’s Book (pp. 168). Athens: Research Centre for Language Teaching Testing and Assessment (RCeL) Publication.
This is one of a series of three practice test books written and designed for EFL teachers prepar... more This is one of a series of three practice test books written and designed for EFL teachers preparing their students for the national foreign language exams in English, leading to the state certificate of language proficiency (KPG). Work for this series has been carried out within the framework of the project entitled "Differentiated and Graded National Foreign Language Exams" (Greek acronym DiaPEG), which is co-financed by the European Union and Greece, with the purpose to support and further develop the national foreign language exam system of Greece. More specifically, it has been carried out as a deliverable of subproject 10, entitled "Linking foreign language education in school with the national language exams," on the basis of which a similar series will be produced for the German and Spanish exams.
Dendrinos, B., & Mitsikopoulou, B. (2012). KPG Exam Preparation in School: The Β level (Β1 & Β2) Exam in English. Student’s Book (pp. 151). Athens: Research Centre for Language Teaching Testing and Assessment (RCeL) Publication.
This is one of a series of three practice test books written and designed for EFL teachers prepar... more This is one of a series of three practice test books written and designed for EFL teachers preparing their students for the national foreign language exams in English, leading to the state certificate of language proficiency (KPG). Work for this series has been carried out within the framework of the project entitled "Differentiated and Graded National Foreign Language Exams" (Greek acronym DiaPEG), which is co-financed by the European Union and Greece, with the purpose to support and further develop the national foreign language exam system of Greece. More specifically, it has been carried out as a deliverable of subproject 10, entitled "Linking foreign language education in school with the national language exams," on the basis of which a similar series will be produced for the German and Spanish exams.
Dendrinos, B., & Mitsikopoulou, B. (2012). KPG Exam Preparation in School: The C1 level Exam in English. Student’s Book (pp. 155). Athens: Research Centre for Language Teaching Testing and Assessment (RCeL) Publication.
This is one of a series of three practice test books written and designed for EFL teachers prepar... more This is one of a series of three practice test books written and designed for EFL teachers preparing their students for the national foreign language exams in English, leading to the state certificate of language proficiency (KPG). Work for this series has been carried out within the framework of the project entitled "Differentiated and Graded National Foreign Language Exams" (Greek acronym DiaPEG), which is co-financed by the European Union and Greece, with the purpose to support and further develop the national foreign language exam system of Greece. More specifically, it has been carried out as a deliverable of subproject 10, entitled "Linking foreign language education in school with the national language exams," on the basis of which a similar series will be produced for the German and Spanish exams.
Papers by Bessie Mitsikopoulou
Visual Representations of English Language Learning and Literacy in Greece
Educational Linguistics, 2019
This chapter draws on an ethnographically oriented study of the everyday English literacy practic... more This chapter draws on an ethnographically oriented study of the everyday English literacy practices of 15 Greek teenagers in order to explore the way they visually represent their relationship with English literacy and language learning. Theoretically and methodologically the study is rooted in socio-cultural approaches to literacy practices and language learning. These approaches call for considering individual learners’ understandings about the role of literacy and language learning in their lives. In response to such a need, our focus here will be on two sets of self-made visual data through which teenagers depict the ways they make sense of and relate to English literacy and language learning. Our findings illustrate that teenagers’ resources are drawn mainly from their out-of-school interests but also from the world of education. It seems thus that their representations are framed by an everyday life discourse and in part by a school-based literacy discourse. The analysis highl...
Rethinking online education: media, ideologies, and identities
Choice Reviews Online, 2014
Journal of Language and Politics, 2008
Critical Thinking in NewsHour Extra
Chapter 4. The chronicle of an ongoing crisis
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
Introduction: Theorizing New English(es)
European Journal of English Studies, 2008
... Karavanta, Assimina. 2008. 'The Global, the Local and the Spectral: Contemplating Spect... more ... Karavanta, Assimina. 2008. 'The Global, the Local and the Spectral: Contemplating Spectral Politics.'. ... See Theodor Adorno's analysis of 'constellation' and his reading ofWalter Benjamin's Origin of German Tragedy in Negative Dialectics. ...
Discourses of crisis and representation of Greece in a period of austerity
Discourse Analysis and Austerity, 2019
Integrating Multimodal and Digital Literacies in Foreign Language Policy Design: Two Examples From the Greek Context
Multimodality in English Language Learning
Developing pedagogically meaningful learning objects for foreign language education
Genre Instruction and Critical Literacy in Teacher Education: Features of a Critical Foreign Language Pedagogy in a University Curriculum
L2 Journal
Author(s): Mitsikopoulou, Bessie | Abstract: This paper focuses on critical pedagogy and EFL teac... more Author(s): Mitsikopoulou, Bessie | Abstract: This paper focuses on critical pedagogy and EFL teacher education and it argues that it would be unrealistic to expect students who have been educated through traditional university curricula (aiming to deliver content through a ‘banking model’) to become critical foreign language teachers and educators. The education of future teachers requires new university curricula which view literacy as a critical social practice and prepare them through transformative pedagogies, encouraging them to examine critically their values and beliefs by developing a reflexive knowledge base, an appreciation for multiple perspectives and a sense of critical consciousness and agency.Based on this premise, the article presents the case of Genres in English, an undergraduate language course at the Department of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, aiming to raise students’ critical literacy. Using the tools of Systemic Functional Grammar and drawing on a genre-based approach to writing development, the course initially invites students to take up the role of critical text analysts deconstructing academic and media texts and at a later stage to engage in a popularization of science writing task mediating information from an academic to a media text. Through language tasks which approach genres as historical constructs, students are introduced to the ideological nature of discourses and genres and they explore the conditions of production, distribution and consumption of texts. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, the paper presents the findings from a small-scale research conducted with students who have attended the course.
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