The Future of Education
Katerina Florou
Institution: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Country: Greece
Katerina Florou is an Assistant Professor at the University of Athens and a Researcher in Corpus Linguistics.
Katerina Florou is an assistant professor at the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Athens, where she teaches courses in Linguistic Analysis, Use of Corpora in Teaching, and the Relationship between Multilingualism and Foreign Language Teaching. She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 in Corpus Linguistics, with a focus on their implementation in teaching the Italian language and the linguistic analysis. In 2019, she completed her postdoctoral research on Parallel Multilingual Corpora and their use in Error Analysis.
For several years, she has been a lecturer in the master’s program in Second Language Acquisition for Refugees and Migrants at the Greek Open University. Additionally, she has collaborated as a research scientist with the Technological Institute of Epirus and Larissa, the Faculty of Pedagogy and Technological Education of Ioannina, and the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Athens. She actively participates in various committees of the Greek Ministry of Education with the aim of evaluating and teaching foreign languages.
Florou has been involved in research projects focused on intercultural communication. Her research work focuses on applied linguistics, digital error analysis, the use of computational methods in foreign language teaching, and the utilization of multilingualism in education.
Areas of expertise: Italian Language Learning, Teachers’ Assessment, Error Analysis, Multilingualism in Teaching, Corpus Based Teaching and Corpus Analysis
Katerina Florou is an assistant professor at the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Athens, where she teaches courses in Linguistic Analysis, Use of Corpora in Teaching, and the Relationship between Multilingualism and Foreign Language Teaching. She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 in Corpus Linguistics, with a focus on their implementation in teaching the Italian language and the linguistic analysis. In 2019, she completed her postdoctoral research on Parallel Multilingual Corpora and their use in Error Analysis.
For several years, she has been a lecturer in the master’s program in Second Language Acquisition for Refugees and Migrants at the Greek Open University. Additionally, she has collaborated as a research scientist with the Technological Institute of Epirus and Larissa, the Faculty of Pedagogy and Technological Education of Ioannina, and the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Athens. She actively participates in various committees of the Greek Ministry of Education with the aim of evaluating and teaching foreign languages.
Florou has been involved in research projects focused on intercultural communication. Her research work focuses on applied linguistics, digital error analysis, the use of computational methods in foreign language teaching, and the utilization of multilingualism in education.
Areas of expertise: Italian Language Learning, Teachers’ Assessment, Error Analysis, Multilingualism in Teaching, Corpus Based Teaching and Corpus Analysis
