She holds an MA in TEFL from Canterbury Christ Church University and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Wales Swansea, UK. She has taught English as a foreign language for about 10 years in Greece and Britain. She currently teaches courses in methodology of language teaching, pedagogical foundations in learning a foreign language, current communicative approaches (at the undergraduate level) and research methods in applied linguistics (at the postgraduate level). Since her employment she has been involved in research projects focusing mainly on issues relating to young and very young learners. She is also the coordinator of the Module ‘Teaching English to Young Learners’ (at the postgraduate level) at the Hellenic Open University.