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Dr Evdokia Karavas

Education: PhD in English Language Teaching (Associate Professor)

Affiliation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Address:

School of Philosophy

Zografou Campus

15784 Athens

Greece

Phone: +30-210-727-7907

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Email: ekarava@enl.uoa.gr

Web: http://en.enl.uoa.gr/


Vita

Evdokia Karavas holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the Department of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a Postgraduate Diploma in English Language Teaching and Administration, PhD in English Language Teaching from the Centre for English Language Teacher Education of the University of Warwick, UK, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Compulsory Education (Higher Education) from the Department of Continuing Education of the University of Warwick. She was Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Teacher Education of the University of Warwick from 1992 to 1999. From 2001 to 2012 she was tutor at the Hellenic Open University, where she taught and coordinated a number of distance education modules for MA in TESOL programme. Since 2003 she has been working at the Department of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is currently Associate Professor at the Department, Assistant Director of the Research Centre for Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment (RCeL) of the University of Athens, which is responsible for the development of the KPG exams (Greek state language proficiency exams) in English. She is co-coordinator of the Pedagogic and Teaching Competence Programme and scientific coordinator of the Teaching Practice Course and Mentor Education programme of the Department of English Language and Literature.

Within the wider context of the research, evaluation and development work undertaken by RCeL, Kia Karavas is responsible for the training of oral examiners and markers for the KPG exams in English (Greek state language proficiency exams) and is the scientific coordinator of a number of nationwide teacher education programmes such as the teacher education programme for primary school teachers of English, the teacher education programme for the pilot implementation of the Integrated Foreign Languages Curriculum, the trainer education programme "advanced training in the use of ICT in teaching (B2 level on ICT)" and the Foreign language teaching competence programme for foreign language institutes with the title "Proxoro" of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has also been responsible (with B. Mitsikopoulou) for the development and monitoring of a number of English Language Programmes for adult refugees, the most current being the "Curing the Limbo" programme of the Municipality of Athens. Her research interests include language teacher education and development, curriculum/ programme evaluation, implementation research and language testing and assessment. She has publications in these areas in local and international journals.

Selected Publications

Karavas, E., & Mitsikopoulou, B. (2018). Issues and developments in glocal language testing: The case of the Greek National Language Proficiency exams (KPG). London: Peter Lang Publications.

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