Fotiadou Georgia
Georgia Fotiadou holds a PhD in Psycholinguistics / Applied Linguistics from the Department of English Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, and more specifically in L1 acquisition, sentence processing in adult language and corpus studies. She has also an MA in teaching Greek as a Foreign Language (AUTh 2003) and a BA in French Studies (AUTh, 1997). For her studies she was awarded scholarships from the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI; PENED 2003) and from the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training (EPEAEK I). Her research focuses on Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Sentence Processing and Eye-tracking. Her scientific interests lie in the areas of mental lexicon, morphosyntax and phenomena in the interface Morphology-Syntax-Pragmatics, as well as the teaching / learning / acquisition of a second / foreign language (University of Patras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Center for the Greek Language). Since 2018, she has been a member of the international board of Bilingualism Matters, representing the Thessaloniki branch, “With 2 Languages”, which she co-directs. She has taught in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the Democritus University of Thrace, the Hellenic Open University, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published research papers on first and second language acquisition and development, bilingualism, native adult, L2 and child sentence processing, corpus studies and language learning, while she is also concerned with language and cognitive abilities in typical development, developmental and acquired language disorders and aging.