Conferences

Presentations at international conferences

• Nov. 2011 – "Literacy and Basic Education in the Cologne Area – Opportunities and Challenges – PAGES and its experiences." (with Gaby Bathe-Jablanovic) Paper presented at the EU-Speak Workshop "Competencies and Assessment in Low-Educated Second Language & Literacy Learning", Cologne, Germany.
• Aug. 2010 – "A view from the classroom: video presentation and discussion about adult literacy instruction in Germany." (with Gaby Bathe-Jablanovic) Paper presented at the 6th LESLLA (Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition) conference, Cologne, Germany.  
• Jul. 2010 – "Cyprus English - the neglected variety." (with Christiane M. Bongartz) Paper presented at the 16th conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), Vancouver, Canada.
• Dec. 2008 – "Investigating the variety status of Cyprus English." (with Christiane M. Bongartz) Paper presented at the 14th conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), Hong Kong SAR, China.
• Oct. 2008 – "When is a variety a variety? Discovering Cyprus English." (with Christiane M. Bongartz) Paper presented at the 1st conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), Freiburg, Germany.
• Sept. 2008 – "The present perfect in L2 English on Cyprus." Poster presented at the 18th conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Jul. 2008 – "Subject realization in Cyprus English." (with Christiane M. Bongartz) Poster presented at the 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Leuven, Belgium.

Other presentations

• June 2012- "Learner Englishes and Models of Variation." Presentation at the lecture series "Psychology of Second Language Acquisition", University of Cologne, Germany.
• Jul. 2010 – "Investigating Cyprus English: historical development, role and linguistic features." (with Christiane M. Bongartz) Presentation at the colloquium "Recent Research in English Linguistics", University of Regensburg, Germany.
• Nov. 2009 – "Kontrastive Alphabetisierung in der Zweitsprache Deutsch." (with Christiane Schöneberger) Presentation at the lecture series "Sprachspuren", University of Cologne, Germany.
• May 2009 – "Alphabetisierung in der Zweitsprache Deutsch – ein Projektbericht." (with Christiane Schöneberger) Presentation at the lecture series "Bilingualität – ein Erfolgsrezept?" University of Cologne, Germany.
• Jan. 2009 – "Interkulturelle Kommunikation im Klassenraum." (with Christiane Schöneberger) Presentation at the lecture series "Interkulturelle Kommunikation" University of Cologne, Germany.