Dr Celia Antoniou

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Education

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Personal statement

I recently joined the School of Education and the TESOL team after having worked as a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Portsmouth and UWS since 2016. While there I was leading and teaching a range of modules on L2 acquisition, multilingualism, EMI, and research methods among others. Prior to these appointments and alongside my doctoral studies, I was delivering linguistics, psycholiguistics and TESOL modules since 2011 in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. I hold a BA in English Language and Linguistics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an M. Phil. in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (Graduate Scholarship, Trinity College Dublin) and a PhD in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Essex (2016). My doctoral project was fully funded by a Doctoral Research Scholarship (1+3 quota scholarship). During my studies I served as an Impact Communications Officer at the UK Data Service (ONS) in their research methods and case study sector. I'm particularly interested in Sociocultural theory and how discipline specific content can be taught through English. My research looks at both the online and offline activity generated by the learners' interaction with tasks as unique events to study the processes that develop as a result of that interaction in combination with the learners' own goals, individual differences and perceptions of the tasks. My latest work explored how teachers have adjusted to the COVID-19 challenges online and relevant implications. Since 2022, I have been running 2 MSc research groups in GEN AI and Language Teacher Research. I also have extensive experience in supervising postgraduate and doctoral students on second/foreign language pedagogy, language teacher education and technology-enhanced learning projects in various contexts.

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Publications

Integrating immersive technologies and generative AI in education : critical issues and future pathways
Nikou Stavros, Rodolico Gabriella, Hirsu Lavinia, Antoniou Celia
SERA Researching Education Bulletin Vol 2024, pp. 31-35 (2024)

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Teaching

In Strathclyde, I have been involved in delivering and leading modules in the following programmes:

  • BA (Hons) Education & TESOL
  • International PG Certificate in Education (iPGCE)
  • PGDE
  • MSc TESOL and Intercultural Communication

PG modules (2022-present)

  • X2918 Contemporary Issues in Language Teaching - module leader and tutor
  • X2917: Language Learning in a Multilingual World - module leader and tutor
  • X3859: Curriculum development in TESOL - module leader and tutor
  • Professional Learning Through Enquiry - tutor
  • X9651 Practitioner Enquiry for Professional Learning - tutor
  • X3815 MSc Dissertation - supervisor

UG modules 

  • X7208 Developing Language and Communication Skills - module leader and tutor (2022-present)
  • X7348 TESOL 2: Methods, Approaches and Techniques in Language Teaching - tutor (2023)
  • X7432 BA Dissertation - supervisor (2022-present)

 

I have supervised the work of both masters and PhD students at various institutions (i.e. University of Portsmouth, University of the West of Scotland, UCL and University of Edinburgh). 

 

Current PhD supervisions:

 

 

Past PhD Supervisions:

  • Serai Safia, Thesis: "Translanguaging in Algerian University EFL Classrooms: Practices and Attitudes". University of Portsmouth UK. 2nd supervisor.
  • Gaia Chiuchiù, Thesis: "Processing instruction versus input enhancement: classroom effects and computerised online learning measurement". University of Portsmouth, UK. 2nd supervisor.
  • Ayah Farhat, Thesis: 'Motivation and the effects on Processing Instruction in the Acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic.' University of Portsmouth, 2018. 2nd supervisor.
  • Maria Batziou, Thesis: 'Measuring the effects of Structured Input and Structured Output practice with time constrained sentence- and discourse-level assessment tasks.' University of Portsmouth, 2017. 3rd supervisor.
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Research Interests

L2 acquisition and L2/foreign language pedagogy; multilingual education; L2 student/teacher agency, identity and motivation (emotions including anxiety, boredom etc.); L2 teacher training/development; L2 computer assisted language learning; language learning strategies; sociocultural theory

Current research groups (2022-present)

  • Exploring Learner and Teacher Emotions in the L2 classroom (anxiety, boredom, motivation etc.)
  • The Implications of GEN AI for Language
    Learning and teaching in Higher Education 

 

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Contact

Dr Celia Antoniou
Teaching Fellow
Education

Email: celia.antoniou@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted