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PERSONAL
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George Ypsilandis is an associate professor
on CALL, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching and Learning Theories at the department of Italian
Language and Literature of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
He holds an M.A (Bangor, UK). and a Ph.D. (Bangor,
UK and Aristotle, Gr) in Applied Linguistics. Ypsilandis
published several articles in Greek and international journals (such as the
British Association of Applied Linguistics, CALL, World Englishes)
in the areas of CALL and Contrastive Rhetoric. Some of his articles are cited
in books and articles published in the USA, Europe (Austria, Belgium,
Germany, Spain, UK) and the Far East (Australia,
China, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan). He presented papers in conferences in
Greece, Italy, UK, USA, France, Germany, Poland, Austria, FYROM, Hungary and
Cyprus, acted as a teacher trainer (Greece, Italy, Cyprus, UK and Albania)
and worked as a consultant for Oxford University Press and an ESP teacher at
the University of Macedonia and the Technological University of Thessaloniki.
He has been a keynote in several occasions in Greece, Italy, Albania
and Spain and an ad hoc referee for papers submitted to Language Awareness (published by
Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, U.K.) and the
Compiegne (France) conference on CALL.
He is the EUROCALL representative in Greece since the year 1998 and organized
a conference on ESP and IT at the University of Macedonia (year 2000). He
used to run a one-year (250 hours) teacher training course on CALL (the first
in Greece) for 5 years while at the University of Macedonia. In 2007 he
designed the educational scenario and internal structure of an on-line
distance teacher training course which received the European Label Award for
innovative projects in language teaching and learning of that year. |