Pavlos Pavlou
Assistant Professor
PROFILE
Undergraduate studies at the University of Vienna, Austria (Foreign Languages,
1988), graduate studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (M.A.
in Applied Linguistics, English as a Foreign Language, and German, 1991)
and Georgetown University (Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, 1995). He has worked
at the Center for Applied Linguistics (USA) in the Foreign Language Testing
Division (Research Assistant, 1991-1992). He has taught Introductory Linguistics
at Georgetown University (Instructor, 1992-1993) and English for Academic
Purposes at Intercollege (Senior Lecturer, 1994-1996) where he was coordinator
of the foreign languages programme.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests are: second/foreign language teaching and
learning, second language acquisition, foreign language testing (including
Greek as a foreign language) and especially Oral Proficiency Testing and
sociolinguistic aspects of the Cypriot-Greek dialect such as the use of
the dialect in the mass media.
