Marina Mattheoudakis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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International Journal of Lifelong Education | 2005
Marina Mattheoudakis
The increasing number of immigrants living and working in Greece has proven to be a challenge for the social as well as educational policy of this country. In order to help adult immigrants to integrate into society and facilitate their access to the job market, the Greek state has introduced special language education programmes. This paper discusses the current trends in Greece regarding immigrant language education and presents findings of a survey which aimed at exploring immigrants’ language needs and preferences. The results of this survey indicate a high interest by immigrants in learning Greek but a very low level of enrolment on and attendance of language courses. As a knowledge of Greek is necessary to improve immigrants’ socio‐economic and professional status, it is suggested that cooperation between immigrant associations and educational policy‐makers is necessary for the design of successful language programmes and the promotion of Greece’s policy of integration.
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism | 2017
Marina Mattheoudakis; Aspasia Chatzidaki; Christina Maligkoudi
ABSTRACT The present paper reports on a questionnaire survey conducted in the course of a broader research project on bilingualism (BALED). It compares two groups of Albanian immigrant parents in Greece with respect to their practices for supporting minority language development. The first group includes parents (N = 35) whose children receive systematic instruction in the heritage language; the other group (N = 167) comprises parents who do not send their children to heritage language classes but may support Albanian language maintenance in various ways. Αccording to their parents’ reports, all children were dominant in Greek. Our purpose was to compare the two groups with regard to (i) language use patterns among family members, (ii) parental practices in support of the minority and the majority language, and (iii) children’s language competence in the respective languages. Τhe ultimate aim is to explore the relations between parental practices and children’s competence in the minority language. Results indicated that parents who send their children to heritage language courses also engage more often in practices which promote literacy in the heritage language at home. These children were reported by their parents to possess literacy skills in Albanian to a higher degree than children who do not attend systematic instruction in this language. Our findings corroborate previous research (e.g. Bylund, E., and M. Díaz. 2012. “The Effects of Heritage Language Instruction on First Language Proficiency: A Psycholinguistic Perspective.” International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (5): 593–609; Chumank-Horbatsch, R. 1999. “Language Change in the Ukranian Home: From Transmission to Maintenance to the Beginnings of Loss.” Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 31 (2): 61–75; Schwartz, M. 2008. “Exploring the Relationship between family Language Policy and Heritage Language Knowledge among Second Generation Russian-Jewish Immigrants in Israel.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29 (5): 400–418) suggesting that literacy development at home and especially attendance of heritage language instruction are extremely beneficial for its development without disrupting the development of the majority language.
Teaching and Teacher Education | 2007
Marina Mattheoudakis
Archive | 2007
Marianne Nikolov; Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović; Gun Lundberg; Tanya Flanagan; Marina Mattheoudakis
European Journal of Teacher Education | 2005
Marina Mattheoudakis; Katerina Nicolaidis
European Journal of Teacher Education | 2008
Katerina Nicolaidis; Marina Mattheoudakis
Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning | 2013
Thomaï Alexiou; Marina Mattheoudakis
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics | 2017
Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou; Marina Mattheoudakis
Archive | 2016
Otto Kruse; Madalina Chitez; Brittany Rodriguez; Montserrat Castelló; Helmut Gruber; Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen; Lotte Rienecker; Peter Stray Jørgenson; Isabelle Delcambre; Esther Breuer; Kirsten Schindler; Eliza Kitis; Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou; Cleopatra Kontouli; Marina Mattheoudakis; Irene Vogt; Ola Majchrzak; Łukasz Salski; Luísa Álvares Pereira; Luciana Graça; Rute Marques; Inês Cardoso; Mirela Borchin; Claudia Ioana Doroholschi; Mar Mateos; Núria Castells; Anna Iñesta; Isabel Cuevas; Isabel Solé; Cornelia Illie
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics | 2014
Marina Mattheoudakis; Thomaï Alexiou; Chryssa Laskaridou