CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Personal Data
Elsa Amanatidou
Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies
Department of Classics
Director, Centre for Language Studies
Brown University- Box 1856
Telephone: (401) 863 7482
E-mail: Elsa_Amanatidou@Brown.edu
2. Home address
537 Angell street
Providence, RI, 02906
3. Education
King’s College, London
M.A in Modern Greek Studies (Literature and History)
M.A. thesis, “What is the use of poetry? The case of
Manolis Anagnostakis”
1993-1995
Bell School of Languages& Edinburgh University
RSA, Cambridge, (Royal Society of Arts) DTFLA
(Diploma of Teaching Foreign Languages to Adults)
1991-1992
Bell School of Languages, Norwich
RSA, Cambridge, Certificate,
1991-1992
University of East Anglia, Norwich
M.A, The English Novel
M.A. thesis “Problems of identity and morality in the
early fiction of John Fowles”
1981-1982
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
BA(Hons), English Literature and Linguistics
1977-1981
Istituto Italiano Di Cultura, Thessaloniki
Diploma di lingua e Cultura Italiana
1977-1980
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4. Professional appointments
Edexcel, Pearsons UK
Mentor, General Qualifications Assessment Team
2012-
Brown University, OIA,
Faculty responsible for
International Graduate Colloquium proposals
2011-2013
Edexcel, Pearsons UK
Expert Consultant
“Ask the Expert” service for IGCSE, GCSE and GCE
curricula and assessment in Modern Greek
2010-
Edexcel, Pearsons UK
Chief Examiner, IGCSE examinations in Modern Greek
2010-
Brown University,
Office of Summer and Continuing Studies,
Director, Brown on Naxos Pre-College
Summer Program
2010-
Brown University
Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies
Director, Centre for Language Studies
2008-
Brown University
Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies
2001-
Office of Summer and Continuing Studies,
Brown University
Instructor in Modern Greek
2006-2008
Brown Learning Community
Instructor in Modern Greek
2002
The Hellenic College of London
Head of Modern Greek and Deputy Head (from 1991)
1995-2001
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Norfolk County Council
Teacher Trainer responsible for provision of training
For instructors of Modern Foreign Languages
1993-1995
Edexcel, Pearsons UK
Chief Examiner, GCE (Advanced Level)
2007-
Chief Examiner
GCSE examinations in Modern Greek
1998-
Reviser, GCE (A Level)
Examinations in Modern Greek
Ensuring future assessed units meet the required standard
and are consistent with the unit specification and assessment criteria.
2004-2007
Chief Examiner
GCE (A Level) Examinations in Modern Greek
2000-2004
Chief Examiner, GCE (Ordinary Level)
Examinations in Modern Greek
1991-
Assistant Examiner, Reviser and Scrutineer
GCSE examinations in Modern Greek
1990-1998
5. Research and Completed Projects
(a) Chapter in Book
“Anagnostakis revisited and revised: The politics of Reading and Re-reading”,
Vangelis Calotychos, ed. Manolis Anagnostakis, Poetry and politics, Silence and
Agency in Post War Greece, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012
(b)Completed research on development of pedagogical materials, teacher
training guides and evaluation of assessment models and student performance
(on the web)
Assessment Report and commentary on student performance in 2012 A Level, GCSE
and IGCSE examinations in Modern Greek.
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gce08/lang/greek/Pages/default.aspx
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“Negotiating the product: advertisements as source of cultural information”,
(https://canvas.brown.edu/courses/418583)
2011
Assessment Report and commentary on student performance in 2011 A Level, GCSE
and IGCSE examinations in Modern Greek.
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gce08/lang/greek/Pages/default.aspx
Report and commentary on student performance in 2010 A level, GCSE and O level
examinations in Modern Greek
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse09/mfl/mod-greek/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gce08/lang/greek/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/olevel/languages/7615/Pages/default.aspx
Editable Schemes of work for the delivery of the GCE specification
In Modern Greek
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gce08/lang/greek/Pages/default.aspx
2010
Exemplar activities to facilitate the delivery of the GCSE specification: 2010
A guide for teachers
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse09/mfl/mod-greek/Pages/default.aspx
Adaptable Schemes of Work, to assist language instructors
plan the teaching of the new GCSE specification in Modern Greek
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse09/mfl/mod-greek/Pages/
2009
Vocabulary Book for the new GCSE in Modern Greek
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse09/mfl/mod-greek/Pages/
2009
Report on the delivery and performance in 2009 GCE examinations
2009
in Modern Greek http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gce-leg/lang/GreekModern/Pages/default.aspx
Report on the delivery and performance in 2009 GCSE examinations in
Modern Greek http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse-leg/lang/modgreek/Pages/default.aspx
2009
Report on the delivery and performance in 2009 O level examinations in 2009
Modern Greek
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/olevel/languages/7615/Pages/default.aspx
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Assessment on student performance in public GCE (O Level),
2008
GCE (A level) and GCSE examinations in Modern Greek and
Recommendations for improving performance
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/olevel/languages/7615/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse-leg/lang/mod-greek/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gce/gceleg/lang/Greek%20(Modern)/Pages/default.asp
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Development of new Specification and Sample Assessment
2008
Materials for the General Certificate in Education Examinations
In Modern Greek (GCSE).
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse09/mfl/mod-greek/Pages/default.aspx
Prototype of textbook
2007
Three units in a textbook, testing listening comprehension for
Advanced Students
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/LRC/audios/greek/Points_of_View.shtml
Development of New Specification and Sample Assessment Materials
I devised New Subject Criteria for Advanced level Qualification in
Modern Greek; authored Specimen Examination Papers (Approved by
The Qualifications and Curricula Authority, summer 2007)
http://www.edexcel.com/gce2008/mfl/greek/Pages/Overview.aspx
2007
Radio advertisements
A workbook of listening comprehension tasks to accompany authentic
Radio announcements and commercials
(http://mycourses.brown.edu/webct )
(https://canvas.brown.edu/courses/418583)
2007
Self-Assessment through Hot Potatoes
An arsenal of interactive web-based tasks to facilitate independent
study and consolidate linguistic and cultural knowledge
http://mycourses.brown.edu/webct
(https://canvas.brown.edu/courses/418583)
2007
Teaching culture through TV
Set of activities to accompany video clips from TV series
http://mycourses.brown.edu/webct
(https://canvas.brown.edu/courses/418583)
2006
Assessment Report on student performance at GCSE public examinations
2007 in Modern Greek and recommendations
http://www.edexcel.org.uk/quals/gcse/mfl/gcse/1776/
2005-
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Pronunciation guide for Beginner Students in Modern Greek
2005
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/LRC/audios/greek/pronunciation
(https://canvas.brown.edu/courses/418583)
(c) Papers in conferences, guest talks and invited lectures, presentations and
workshops directed
Brown Clubs of Paris & Brussels
““Knowing how, when, and why to say what to whom”
June 2013
Sheridan Centre for Teaching and Learning
November 2012
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25 Anniversary Poster Presentation (with Miled Faiza):
“Promoting the Study and Instruction of Languages, Bridging Cultures”
Centre for Language Studies, Yale University,
“Rethinking the Language Centre”, a conference organised
By The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning,
Panel Discussion Facilitator: Governance
November 2012
Edexcel Pearson’s UK, materials writer and trainer for webinar
“GCE and GCSE successful examinations 2012”
October 2012
San Francisco State University
Fourth Biannual MGSA Workshop on MFL pedagogy
Workshop leader: “Task based teaching and learning”
October 2012
Yale University, Centre for Language Studies,
Brown Bag lecture series
“Collaborative Writing and the Digital Script”
March 2012
Brown University, SLAV13000
“Greek Diglossia”, Guest speaker
April 2012
University of East Anglia, School of Languages
And Communication Studies, UK
“Digital Story telling for the MFL classroom”
June 2011
Edexcel Pearson’s UK, materials writer and trainer for webinar
On GCE and GCSE successful examinations, 2011
October 2011
Brown Alumni Denver Club
April 2011
“Language Instruction and International Initiatives: The case at Brown”
Sheridan Centre for Teaching and Learning, Brown University
April 2011
Graduate Student Training
1. Workshop on Practical techniques for Teaching Vocabulary
2. Workshop on Practical Techniques for Teaching Grammar
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AEIA International Conference, San Francisco
“The Changing Relationship between Language Studies and
International Studies”
February 2011
Edexcel, Pearsons UK
Presented first drafts of GCSE, GCE and
IGCSE public examination papers to the
Question Paper Evaluation Committee (QPEC).
January 2011
Third Biannual Conference on Greek language pedagogy
November 2010
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Panel organizer and presenter on “Standards and Criteria:
Mapping the terrain of the Modern Greek Language Specification”
Aristotle University, Greece
Centre for Greek Language
Panel: Greek Studies in USA
June 2010
Brown, CLS and LRC show case,
Student collaborations in digital story telling projects:
The pedagogical implications
April 2010
Brown, Pembroke Club of RI
“Internationalization, Global Citizenship
and the Role of Languages: Notes from the Field”
April 2010
Edexcel, Pearsons, UK
Webinar delivered to secondary schools teachers in Cyprus.
Approaches to teaching Cinema and
delivering the new GCE specification in MG
March 2010
UCLA, Brown Club of Southern California
”The World is Your Stage: Express Yourself!
Global Citizenship and the Role of Languages”
January 2010
Brown University, The Hellenic Students Association,
Celebration in honor of 100 years since the birth of the poet
Yiannis Ritsos, presentation on “Politics and Poetics:
The case of Yiannis Ritsos”
November 2009
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, MGSA Conference,
“The collaborative class: Students as writers and performers”
October 2009
Brown University, Sheridan Centre for Teaching and Learning,
September 2009
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“Everyone has a story to tell: Digital Story telling in the MFL
Classroom”
Brown Club of the UK, London, “At Home with the World:
Foreign languages and Global Understanding”
June 2009
Edexcel Pearsons, UK
Webinar, Teaching the new GCSE Specification
In Modern Greek
June 2009
Brown Alumni Club, London UK,
“At home with the World: languages at the Age of
Globalisation”
June 2009
University of East Anglia,UK
Teaching Greek with “Hot Potatoes”. A practical
Demonstration.
May 2009
Brown University, Sheridan Centre for Teaching and
Learning, “Differentiated Instruction and the MFL curriculum:
From Rational to Classroom Practice” – Part I
April 2009
Brown University, Sheridan Centre for Teaching and
Learning, “Differentiated Instruction and the MFL curriculum:
From Rational to Classroom Practice” – Part II
April 2009
Brown University, CLS Professional Development Lecture
Series. Paper: “Integrating Culture in the MFL
Curriculum”.
November 2008
Yale University, Workshop on Modern Greek Language
Pedagogy. Paper: “Strategies and techniques
For Teaching Culture: An Integrative Approach to developing
Transcultural knowledge”
November 2008
Edexcel, Pearsons, UK. Webinar,
“Teaching the new Advanced Subsidiary Specification
In Modern Greek Edexcel, London UK
October 2008
British Council in Cyprus & Edexcel, Pearsons, UK
July 2008
One day Professional development Workshop for
Secondary School Teachers
Workshop Leader and Trainer “Teaching and delivering a new Specification”
A. S. Onassis, Public Benefit Foundation, NY, USA
Workshop on the Teaching of Modern Greek Language in
September 2007
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Universities in North, Central and South America.
Presentation, “Hot potatoes: employing technology in Language
Instruction”
Columbia University, NY
Conference in honour of the poet Manolis Anagnostakis,
Paper: “Anagnostakis and the critics”
April 2006
University of East Anglia, UK, Translation seminar
for students of Modern Greek
June 2005
Alpha Omega Council, Providence, RI
October 2005
Presentation: “The History of the Modern Greek Studies Program
& the Hellenic Students Association at Brown University”
Rochester Hellenic Society
Lecture: “Testimony as fiction: Three novels on the
Asia Minor Disaster”
May 2004
6. Citations and Research Grants
(a) Citations
Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning
Brown University
Recognition for Commitment to Teaching.
Brown University, Citations and Awards,
Commencement Ceremony
Master of Arts Ad Eundem
2009, 2010, 2011
2009
(b)Current Grants
HRF, “New assessment models”
HRF, “Art in times of crisis”
2012
2011
(c) Completed Grants
HRF to complete 3rd part of research project on integrating culture
In the MFL classroom
2010
Brown Instructional Technology (BIT) grant
Digitisation of video clips that informed the content of the project:
2010
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“Negotiating the product: advertisements as source of cultural information”
Language Consortium for teaching and learning, Campus Grant
2010
Workbook to accompany the project: “Negotiating the product: advertisements as
source of cultural information”
MGSA, innovative projects grant to organise the biannual 2010
conference on MFL pedagogy
2010
HRF to complete 2nd part of research project on integrating culture
In the MFL classroom
2009
HRF to complete first phase of research project on teaching culture
2008
B.I.T (Brown Instructional Technology)
2008
The grant provided technological assistance that made possible the digitisation of
films used for Language instruction, in MGRK0100, 300 and 500 classes
Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, NY
2008
$11.500 grant towards the cost of the first biannual workshop
On Greek Language Pedagogy and for setting up a Professional Organisation
Of Instructors of Modern Greek in USA
Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning
$7.000 grant towards the cost of the first biannual workshop
On Greek Language Pedagogy
2008
Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning
Campus based grant to develop prototype for textbook for
Advanced Learners. Amount awarded: $3.027
2007
B.I.T (Brown Instructional Technology)
Recipient of B.I.T grant for the digitisation of radio audio
clips in order to develop instructional materials. The grant provided
a technical expert and a student assistant to help with implementation.
2007
B.I.T (Brown Instructional Technology)
Recipient of B.I.T grant for the digitisation of video clips
In order to develop instructional materials. The grant provided
a technical expert and a student assistant to help with implementation.
2006
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