Natasha Tsantila

MA in TESOL, Program Coordinator

BA, University of Athens; MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, UK; PhD Hellenic Open University

Dr Tsantila (M.A. in Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, UK and PhD, Hellenic Open University) has been teaching and designing courses in academic writing and Linguistics at Deree since 1989. She has worked as an examiner in prestigious examination boards, EFL teacher, and English language programme coordinator and teacher trainer in language centres in Greece. Her professional interests include language and identity, language teacher education, language and pedagogy, teaching English as an international language, materials evaluation and design. She has presented at international conferences, such as the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), English as a lingua franca (ELF), TESOL, and IATEFL. She has extensively published in edited volumes and refereed journals, and she is the co-editor of the volumes ELF: Pedagogical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2016) and English as a Lingua Franca for EFL Contexts (2019) published by Multilingual Matters. Her PhD focuses on materials evaluation and design and language teacher education.