Dimitris Thanasoulas

Biography

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Personal Information

Date of Birth: 30/09/1974
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Nationality: Greek

Education

1992 2nd High School, Zografou, Athens, Greece
1994-1998 BA degree in English Literature and Linguistics, Athens University, Athens, Greece (GPA: 7,8/10 Very Good)
1999-2000 MA degree in Applied Linguistics, Sussex University, United Kingdom (GPA: 66/90 Very Good)
2000-2001 MA degree in Business Administration, Mooreland University, California, USA (by long distance)
2001-onwards PhD degree in Education and Applied Linguistics, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
2003 Qualified Teacher Status (Teacher Ref. N.: RP 01/31696)

Work experience

October 1992-June 1999 Teaching English and Greek as a Foreign Language, Teaching Translation / Interpretation Skills, Teaching Ancient Greek, Latin, and Essay-writing (at Lagarou-Bouzaki School)
May-September 2001 Editing (at Express Publishing)
October 2001-January 2002 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (at Geredaki School)
June 2002-October 2002 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (at Spyropoulou School)
February-June 2004 Teaching Greek as a Foreign Language (at Hazelwood Lane, Palmers Green, London)

Patents and publications

• Author of a four-book series on the Greek State Certificate of Attainment in English (B2) with Patakis Publishers (published May 2005) ΚΡΑΤΙΚΟ ΠΙΣΤΟΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΟ ΓΛΩΣΣΟΜΑΘΕΙΑΣ Β2, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΠΑΤΑΚΗ
• Idioms and Contexts: A book comprising various exercises on English idioms (publication pending with Patakis Publishers)
• Working on a freelance basis with Patakis Publishers (recently finished an English-Greek and Greek-Engish dictionary)
• Working on a freelance basis with Michalis Sideris Publishers (lexicography, editing etc)
• Teaching Greek as a Foreign Language (6 months’ experience in teaching Greek to Anglo-Cypriots at a school in Palmers Green, London, January-June 2004)
• Recently finished a novel (in Greek) on autism (publication pending)
• Recently finished second novel (in Greek)
• Co-author in writing a Grammar series for young students
• Contributing ELT articles to local and international ELT journals, as well as on the world wide web (ELT News-Spyropoulos Publications, www.thrace.net/bridges, www.eltnewsletter.com, www.eslcafe.com, www.angloschool.co.uk, www.tefl.net, www.aitech.ac.jp, www.tesolgreece.com, www.esljapan.com, http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/, http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/ etc.) please see the Appendix for further details
• Member of TESOL Greece and the AILA Scientific Commission on Learner Autonomy
• Member of hyphen (www.hyphen.gr)

Academic Interests and other activities

Teaching English—Greek (Comparative Linguistics), Psychology and Sociology of Education, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech and Language disorders, Pragmatics (particularly, Conversation Implicatures, Grice’s Maxims etc.), Discourse Analysis and Semiotics (The Discourse of Advertising, Educational Discourse, The Discourse of Politics etc.), Critical Discourse Analysis, Language and Ideology (specifically, Foucault, Bourdieu, Fairclough, T. van Dijk, Anna Frangoudaki et al.), Fostering learner autonomy and cultural awareness, and pondering such issues as the “banking” concept of education, Paulo Freire’s philosophy etc., Teaching Latin and Ancient Greek IN ADDITION: Psychology and Psychoanalytic Studies, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Astrology, Writing, Reading, Translating, Net-surfing, Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Windows 98, Millennium, Photoshop and Web-development

Languages

English (fluent, near-native proficiency—Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English)
Italian (Beginner, with a working knowledge)
French (Beginner, with a working knowledge)

39 Yfasiou Street, Ano Ilisia, Athens 15772• GREECE Phone: +302107794855, +306934773100• E-mail: akasa74@hotmail.com

Referees

1) P.E. Geredaki

102 Sahtouri street Proficiency in English)
Italian (Beginner, with a working knowledge)
French (Beginner, with a working knowledge)

Pireaus 15831
Greece

Tel.: +302104282496

2) Zoi Lagarou Bouzaki

17 Grigoriou Afxentiou Street
Ano Ilisia 15771
Athens
Greece

Tel.: +302107743254

3) Maria Lalea

Express ublishing

13 Macmillan street
Ano Patissia
16432
Athens
Greece

Tel.: +302102280270

4) A. Apostolou Panara

The University of Athens

School of Philosophy
Faculty of English studies
Department of language and linguistics

Panepistimioupoli Zografou 15784
Athens
Greece

Tel.: +302107287706

5) A. Papaconstantinou

The University of Athens

School of Philosophy
Faculty of English studies
Department of language and linguistics

Panepistimioupoli Zografou 15784
Athens
Greece

Tel.: +302107287706

6) M. Wheeler

COGS 5A1

University of Sussex
Sussex House
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9RH
UK

e-mail: m.w.wheeler@sussex.ac.uk

7) D. Du Boulay

Sussex Language Institute

ARTS B 121

University of Sussex
Sussex House
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9RH
UK

e-mail: d.du-boulay@sussex.ac.uk

Stefanos Patakis

14 Valtetsiou Street
Athens 10680
Greece

Tel.: +30210 3650042
Fax: +30210 3650049
e-mail: patakis@patakis.gr

APPENDIX

LIST of PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES

1) “Accommodation Theory”

2) “Advertisements: How do they persuade us?”

3) “An Appraisal of a Book”

4) “August Strindberg’s The Father”

5) “Bertolt Brecht: Epic or ‘Culinary Theatre’?”

6) “Classroom Management Styles: Where do you stand?”

7) “Classroom: Forum or Arena?” (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/ASSA-6-7/DT1.html)

“Constructivist Learning” (http://www.eltnewsletter.com/back/April2001/art542001.htm, http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/dr/index.cgi?read=5944, http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/constructivist.html)

9) “Coursebook: Take it or leave it”

10) “A Literary Approach to The Glass Meanagerie by Tennessee Williams”

11) “Grammar: Do we really need it?”

12) “An Introduction to ‘Befogging’ Idioms. Do idioms really call the shots?”

13) “Innateness Hypothesis”

14) “Intellect or Affect?” (http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/vol1.1999/issue2/04thanasoulas1_2.html)

15) “Is cohesion coherent enough?”

16) “Language Acquisition Stages”

17) “Language and Disadvantage” (http://www.eltnewsletter.com/back/August2001/art702001.htm)

18) “Language and Power in Education”

(Dimitrios Thanasoulas “Language, Discourse, and Power in Education.” Paper presented at the International conference “Discourse in Teaching Modern Languages” (The Tambov State University) Tambov, Russia, November 5, 2002.)

(Thanasoulas D. (2002). Language, Discourse, and Power in Education. In R.P. Millrood (Ed.), Research Methodology: Discourse in teaching a foreign language (pp. 61-76). Tambov, Russia: The Tambov State University Press.)

19) “Speech Acts”

20) “Speech Errors: A Window into Linguistic Processes”

21) “Television: Friend or Foe?”

22) “Testing and Assessment”

23) “The Importance of Teaching Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom” (MA Dissertation) (http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue3_3/7-thanasoulas.html, http://www.tesolgreece.com/thanasoulas01.html, http://www.greekelt.net/culture.htm

http://www.developingteachers.com/articles_tchtraining/culture1_dimitrios.htm)

24) “There is No Frigate Like a Book”

25) “What is Learner Autonomy and How Can it be Fostered?” (http://iteslj.org/Articles/Thanasoulas-Autonomy.html, http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/ASSA-No10/No10-A4.html, http://www.eltnewsletter.com/back/September2000/art322000.htm, http://iteslj.org/Articles/Thanasoulas-Autonomy.html,

http://www.thrace-net.gr/bridges/learner.html,

http://nadabs.tripod.com/culture/culture-links.html, http://www.teflnetnation.com/jw/articles/learner_autonomy%20.htm

http://www.nitle.org/grad_readings_2002.php

http://icesar.net/docus.htm)