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The Publications

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My publications explore the evolving landscape of language education, with a particular focus on technology-enhanced learning, teacher education, young learners, assessment, and inclusive educational practices.

Through books, edited volumes, peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and professional contributions, my work examines how research can inform teaching practices and support meaningful learning experiences across diverse educational contexts.

This collection highlights selected contributions from my ongoing research journey, collaborations with international colleagues, and engagement with educators and researchers worldwide.

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  • Edited Volumes:

  1. Giannikas, C.N., McLaughlin, L., Fanning, G. & Deutsch Muller, N. (Eds.) (2015). Children Learning English: from research to practice.  Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Ltd.

  2. Giannikas, C.N., Kakoulli Constantinou, E., & Papadima-Sophocleous, S. (2019). Professional development in CALL: a selection of papers (pp. 145-158). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.28.876

  3. Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Kakoulli-Constantinou, E., & Giannikas, C.N. (2019). ESP Teaching and Teacher Education: Current research and practices. Research-publishing.net (Open Access). doi: 10.14705/rpnet.2019.33.9782490057450

  4. Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Kakoulli-Constantinou, E., & Giannikas, C.N. (2021). Tertiary Education Language Learning: a collection of CALL & LSP research. Research-publishing.net (Open Access).

  5. Giannikas, C.N. (2021). Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children’s Language Education. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6487-5.

  6. Giannikas, C.N. (2022). Transferring Language Learning and Teaching  from Face-to-Face to Online Settings. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8717-1

  7. Giannikas, C.N. (2026). Harnessing AI for Multigenerational English Language Learning. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-5477-3

  • Published Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. Giannikas, C.N. (2011). L1 in English Language Learning: A Research Study in a Greek Regional Context. International Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 21 no. 3, pp. 319-339.

  2. Giannikas, C.N. (2013). The Benefits in Management and Organisation: a case study in the young language learners’ classroom. CEPS Journal. Vol. 3 no. 3, pp. 87-104.

  3. Giannikas, C.N. (2013). Focus on the Primary Language Teacher: a study within a Greek regional context. British Council ELTA Journal, Vol. 1 no. 1, pp 79-87.

  4. Giannikas, C.N. (2014). The Optimum Conditions of Foreign Languages in Primary Education. Language Learning Journal, Vol. 19 no. 2.

  5. Tsagari, D. & Giannikas, C.N. (2018). Re-evaluating the use of the L1 in the Second Language Classroom: students vs. teachers. Applied Linguistics Review.

  6. Tsagari, D. & Giannikas, C.N. (2018). Early Language Learning in Private Language Schools in the Republic of Cyprus: teaching methods in modern times. Mediterranean Language Review.

  7. Giannikas, C.N. (2018). Using Multiple Intelligence Activities and Film to Stimulate the Communicative EFL Learner. IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 4/1 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijll.4.1.04.

  8. Giannikas, C.N. (2019). New Technologies and Language Teacher Education: are we there yet? English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Journal, 22/1, 52-60.

  9. Giannikas, C.N. (2019). Language Education and primary school children: the story of using stories. International Journal of Action Research, 15(20, pp. 52-60.

  10. Giannikas, C.N. (2020). Facebook in tertiary education: The impact of social media in e-Learning, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 17(1). https://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol17/iss1/3

  11. Giannikas, C.N., Kambanaros, M., & Theodorou, E. (2020). Developmental language disorders awareness in the Cypriot language teaching context. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2020.1839970

  12. Giannikas, C.N. (2020).  Digital Pedagogy for Young Learners. Part of the Cambridge Papers in ELT series. [pdf] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  13. Tsagari, D. & Giannikas, C.N. (2021). The Impact of Cert-mania in English Language Learning and Teaching: the Cypriot Context. European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, 10(1), 193-215

  14. Giannikas, C.N. (2021). Interactive Whiteboards in EFL from the Teachers’ and Students’ Perspective. Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning, 11(1), 203-219.

  15. Giannikas, C. N., & Nikitaki, S. (2022). The language teachers’ perspective on parental involvement: A focus on primary state schools. International Journal of Support New Generation Language Teachers, 1(1), 16–35.

  16. Rousoulioti, T., Tsagari, D. & Giannikas, C.N. (2022). Parents’ New Role and Needs During the COVID-19 Educational Emergency. Interchange 53, 429–455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-022-09464-6

  17. Giannikas, C. N. (2022). Squaring the Circle of Alternative Assessment in Distance Language Education: A Focus on the Young Learner. Languages, 7(2), 121. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020121

  18. Tsagari, D., Liontou, J., & Giannikas, C.N. (2023). EFL educators in the COVID-19 era: Examining the case of Greece. Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning, 13(1), 27–49.

  19. Petinou, K., Giannikas, C. N., Papastefanou, T., Hadjigeorgiou, L., & Stamelou, I. (2024). Plural suffixation skills in Developmental Language Disorders: A preliminary investigation from biletal Cypriot-Greek-speaking children with DLD. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 46(1), 26–36.

  • Book Chapters:

  1. Papadima, S.; Kakouli-Constantinou, E. & Giannikas, C.N. (2014). Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Use of Technology in EFL within Public Secondary Schools of Cyprus. Cited in: Dodigovic, M. (ed.) Attitudes to Technology in EFL/ESL Pedagogy. Dubai, United Arab Emirates: TESOL Arabia. Peer-reviewed

  2. Giannikas, C.N. (2015). Let’s Pretend we are in England: the needs of the young language learner. Cited in: Giannikas, C.N.; McLaughlin, L., Fanning, G. & Deutsch Muller, N. (eds.), Children Learning English: from research to practice. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Ltd. Peer-reviewed

  3. Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Kakouli-Constantinou, E., Giannikas, C.N. (2015). ICT in EFL: the case of Cypriot secondary education. Cited in: Giannikas, C.N.; McLaughlin, L., Fanning, G. & Deutsch Muller, N. (eds.), Children Learning English: from research to practice.  Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Ltd. Peer-reviewed

  4. Tsagari, D. & Giannikas, C.N. (2017). To L1 or not to L1 that is the question: a research study in the young learners’ foreign language classroom. Cited in Bayyurt, Y. & Sifakis, N. (eds.) English language education policies and practices in the Mediterrannean countries and beyond. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH. Peer-reviewed

  5. Giannikas, C.N. (2019). Enhancing literacy and collaborative skills through blogging: the teenage language learner. In Giannikas, C.N. Kakoulli Constantinou, E., & Papadima-Sophocleous, S.(Eds.), Professional development in CALL: a selection of papers (pp. 145-158). researchpublishing.net https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.28.876

  6. Giannikas, C.N., Kakoulli Constantinou, E., & Papadima-Sophocleous, S. (2019). Introduction. In Giannikas, C.N; Kakoulli Constantinou, E, & Papadima-Sophocleous, S. (Eds), Professional development in CALL: a selection of papers (pp. 1-9). research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.28.866

  7. Giannikas, C.N. (2019). Technology-Enhanced Curriculum Development in the ESP tertiary context. In Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Kakoulli-Constantinou, E. & Giannikas, C.N. (Eds.), ESP Teaching and Teacher Education: Current research and practices, (pp. 95-110). researchpublishing.net.  https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.33.928

  8. Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Kakoulli-Constantinou, E. & Giannikas, C.N. (2019). Introduction. In Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Kakoulli-Constantinou, E., & Giannikas, C.N. (Eds.), ESP Teaching and Teacher Education: Current research and practices, (pp. 1-12). research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.33.922

  9. Giannikas, C.N. (2020). Effectively incorporating blogs for the L2 literacy development of teenage language learners: A practical perspective. In Neokleous, G., Krulatz, A. & Farrelly, R. (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Cultivating Literacy in Diverse and Multilingual Classrooms. IGI Global.

  10. Giannikas, C.N. (2020). The Teachers’ Perspective on Alternative Approaches to Assessing Young Learners: a focus on play. In Tsagari, D. (Ed.), Language Assessment Literacy: From Research to Practice. Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

  11. Giannikas, C.N. (2020). Performance Assessment in Teacher Education Programs: Direct evaluation of teacher ability. In Ramirez, D.M. & Otcu-Grillman, B. (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Enhancing Teacher Education, IGI Global.

  12. Charalambous, T., Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Giannikas, C.N. (2021). The integration of assistive technologies in the SEN EAP classroom: raising awareness. In Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Kakoulli Constantinou, E., & Giannikas, C.N. (Eds), Tertiary education language learning: a collection of research (pp. 65-88). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.51.1255

  13. Giannikas, C.N., Tsagari, D. & Liontou, T. (2022). Digital Literacy in Language Education: The COVID-19 Era of Cyprus. In C. Giannikas (Ed.), Transferring Language Learning and Teaching From Face-to-Face to Online Settings (pp. 189-202). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8717-1.ch010

❖ Conference Proceedings:

  1. Papadima-Sophocleous, S.; Giannikas, C.N. & Kakouli-Constantinou, E. (2014).  ICT in EFL: The global effect of new technologies in the language classroom. EuroCALL conference. Peer-reviewed

  2. Tσαγγαρή, Ν. & Γιαννίκα, Χ.Ν. (2014). H Διδακτική Ξένων Γλωσσών σε Παιδιά Δημοτικού στην Ιδιωτική Εκπαίδευση: νέοι καιροί, νέες προκλήσεις; 13ο Παγκύπριο Συνέδριο Παιδαγωγικής Εταιρείας Κύπρου [Tsagari, D. & Giannikas, C.N. (2014). Teaching Foreign Languages to Primary School Children in the Private Sector: current times, new challenges? The 13th Cyprus Pedagogical Association Conference] Peer-reviewed

  3. Giannikas, C.N. (2017). The Use of Interactive Whiteboards: enhancing the nature of young language learners. EuroCALL Conference. Peer-reviewed

  4. Giannikas, C.N. (2017). French vs. German: the complexity behind foreign language choices in troubled times. EDULEARN 17: the 19th International Conference on Education and new Learning Technologies. Peer-reviewed

  5. Giannikas, C.N. (2017). Assessing Young Learners through Games: what every teacher needs to know. Glasgow IATEFL Conference Selections. Peer-reviewed

  6. Giannikas, C.N. (2017). Welcome to the Blogosphere: improving teenage learner's literacy and collaborative skills. CyTEA Conference Proceedings. Peer-reviewed

  7. Giannikas, C.N. (2018). The Facebook effect: the use of Social Media on e-Learning platforms. IATEFL 2018 Selections. Kent, UK: IATEFL. Peer-reviewed

  8. Giannikas, C.N. (2019). Pre-service Teacher Reflections: Embracing Growth and Professional Development. The Asian Conference on Language Learning. Tokyo, Japan.

  9. Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Giannikas, C.N. (2019). Time to evaluate: The students’ perspective of an online MA in CALL programme. EuroCALL Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Peer-reviewed

  • Newsletter and Magazine Articles:

  1. Giannikas, C.N. (2013). Action Research in the Language Classroom: the Greek educator’s answer  to the Financial Crisis. IATEFL TDSIG Issue 68, pp. 22-25.

  2. Giannikas, C.N. (2013). Task-based Learning: the building blocks for the young language learner. Humanising Language Teaching Vol. 15, Issue 3. http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jun13/sart07.htm

  3. Giannikas, C.N. (2013). Parental Influence in Early Language Learning: how teachers can make it work. British Council ELTA Newsletter (Lifelong Learning). http://www.britishcouncil.rs/files/2013/07/serbia-elta-newsletter-2013-junelifelong_learning giannikas.pdf

  4. Giannikas, C.N. (2013). Early Language Learning. IATEFL Voices, issue 236.

  5. Giannikas, C.N. (2013). Let’s play a game: encouraging children to enjoy their language learning. IATEFL C&TS.

  6. Giannikas, C.N. (2015). Classroom Management and Organisation: there’s more to it than we think. IATEL C&TS Newsletter.

  7. Petrou, E. & Giannikas, C.N. (2016). Online Tools: Invaluable Resources for Developing Upper Secondary Learners’ Writing Skills. TEYLT Worldwide, Issue 1.

  8. Giannikas, C.N. & McLaughlin, L. (2016). Games in the Spotlight: teaching English to the Young Learner. IH Journal of Education and Development, Issue 40. Peer-reviewed

  9. Giannikas, C.N. (2017). Poetry Please! English Teaching Professional Magazine, Issue 110. Peer-reviewed

  10. Giannikas, C.N. (2017). Assessing Young Learners through Games and Enjoying it! TESOL Greece Magazine, No. 136.

  11. Giannikas, C.N. (2018). Using Design-Based Research in Educational Technology: when and how. IATEFL LTSIG November Issue, pp. 25-27

  12. Giannikas, C.N. (2018). The Effects of Storytelling: a teaching tool like no other. Modern English Teacher, 27:4.

  13. Giannikas, C.N. (2020). Prioritizing when Education is in Crisis: The language teacher. Humanising Language Teaching. 22(3) ISSN 1755-9715

  14. Giannikas, C.N. (2020). [Στηρίζω το παιδί μου στην εποχή της τηλεκπαίδευσης] Supporting my child in the distance education era, Generations Newspaper (Invited Contribution).

  15. Giannikas, C.N. (2021). Assistive Technology and Dyslexia: The path to effective language learning, The Teacher Trainer, 35(2), pp. 18-21.

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