Eleni PETRAKI

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Biography

Eleni Petraki has a passion for language teaching, interaction analysis and curriculum design. She has extensive international language teaching experience in countries such as Greece, UK, USA, Australia, Vietnam,  and Singapore. She has been a language teacher educator in tertiary settings for more than 20 years and worked mainly in the TESOL field. 

Eleni has been involved in a number of research projects including: antenatal communication and implications for midwife training; intercultural and intergenerational discourse, and curriculum design for human-AI teaming. Her research interests focus on interaction analysis, human-AI teaming, computer-mediated communication and language curriculum design.

Here are some of my favourite quotes:

Language is the light of the mind (John Stuart Mill)

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It is a sign of bravery (Amy Chua)

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Education, University of Queensland

19992003

Master, Applied Linguistics (English Language teaching), University of Edinburgh

19961997

Bachelor, Bachelor of English Language Teaching, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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External positions

Australian National University

20052006

University of Queensland

19992002

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