Aggeliki (Angeliki) Sakellariou has studied Linguistics at the University of Athens (degree: Excellent) and did her DEA and PhD in Semantics with Oswald Ducrot as supervisor in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (degree: Excellent with distinction) as a beneficiary of a Greek State Scholarship. She did her post-doc research in Applied Linguistics at the University of Athens, also with a State Scholarship.

Prior to her employment at the University of Patras (from 2023 onwards), she was a teacher of Greek as a foreign language for five years at the University of Athens and she has taught linguistic courses at the University of Athens, Thessaloniki, the Aegean, and Western Macedonia. She was also employed as a Regular Researcher at the Centre for the Greek Language (October 2001-September 2009) and then as a Lecturer, an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at the Primary Education Department, University of Western Macedonia (October 2009-January 2023).

She has taught courses on grammar, vocabulary, language teaching (at undergraduate level), argumentation, rhetoric, (critical) discourse analysis and corpora (at graduate level), where her interests mainly lie.

She has worked for several research projects and, apart from her PhD Thesis, which was published in France, she has published five books (one on teaching Modern Greek as a second or foreign language, three on Modern Greek Language Curriculum and one on Teaching Greek with an emphasis on text genres) and various articles in International and Greek Journals; she has also participated in many Greek and International congresses.

She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Cyprus and Geneva.

Teaching Greek as a second or foreign language

1. Applied Linguistics: textual literacy (3rd year elective)

The contents of the course, which has a clear didactic orientation, include the following 4 points with particular emphasis on 4, which constitutes the core of the course and to which most of the time is devoted:

1. critical literacy,

2. similarities and differences between spoken and written language and their role in shaping the style of the texts,

3. basic characteristics of description, narration, argumentation and instructions,

4. characteristics of the most common “school” text genres (travel guide, news article, fairy tale, diary, letter, opinion article, advertisement, various types of instructions). In the context of the study of text genres, applied teaching scenarios are presented and student writings are commented on, which are evaluated and corrected using criteria that are formed based on the conventions of each text genre. Practices of transforming texts and creating hybrid text genres are utilized.

Modern Greek Language (1rst year compulsory)

In the context of modern linguistic theory, the following are described and analyzed using a text-based approach: -The relationship of Common Modern Greek with Katharaevoussa and Demotic -The levels of linguistic analysis – Accent position – Punctuation rules – The monotonic system – Sound transformations – Declension of nouns, adjectives, participles – Functions of cases – Dative word forms – Verbal tenses: formation, meaning – Verbal aspects – Verbal moods – Probabilistic indicative – Irregular verbs – Passivization with emphasis on deductive verbs – Active and passive participles– Adverbs: production and function – Complement clauses: hypothetical, wish, comparative, specific, volitional, oblique interrogatives.