Areas of interest

• First and second language acquisition
• Language assessment
• Discourse analysis
• Language Technology in Educational Applications

CV data

Vicky Kantzou is a linguist, currently working at the Department of Educational Technology in the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP/R.C. "Athena"). She received her BA in Greek Philology and her postgraduate degree (MA) in teaching Greek as a second language, in 1995 and 2000, respectively, from the University of Athens. In 2010 she completed her PhD on the acquisition of Greek as a first and as a second language at the University of Athens. Part of her Ph.D. research has been supported by a grant awarded from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. Since 2002 she has been working at ILSP, taking part in various projects concerning the development of CALL material for young and adult learners of Greek as a first and as a second language. (Akousma, The evolution of the Greek language, Educational Greek Corpus, Trilingual Term Dictionary, “A knight in the castle of letters”, “A knight in the castle of words”). She has also participated in research projects concerning the acquisition of Greek as a first and second language and the assessment of Greek language proficiency of young learners. Since 2001 she has been teaching Greek to foreigners at the Greek Language Teaching Centre of the University of Athens.

• Giagkou, M., Kantzou, V., Stamouli, S. & Tzevelekou, M. (2015). Discriminating CEFR levels in Greek L2: a corpus-based study of young learners’ written narratives. In Learner Corpus Research: LCR2013 Conference Proceedings, pages 153-169. Bergen/Os, Norway : University of Bergen Library. [...] 
• Giagkou, M., Kantzou, V. & Stamouli, S. (2014). Ο γραπτός αφηγηματικός λόγος των αλλόφωνων μαθητών: Μελέτη των γλωσσικών χαρακτηριστικών που διακρίνουν επίπεδα γλωσσομάθειας. In 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics: Selected Papers, pages 261-276. Rhodes, Greece. [...] 
• Charalabopoulou, F., Kantzou, V., Παντελόγλου, Ε. & Σιμόπουλος, Γ. (2014). The Web and Language education: A platform for learning General and Business Greek. In Studies in Greek Linguistics: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pages 458-470. Thessaloniki : Institute for Modern Greek Studies. [...] 
• Antoniou-Kritikou, I., Kantzou, V. & Stamouli, S. (2013). To Aerostato. Developing an online educational platform for small children [In Greek]. Neos Paidagogos, 1, 176-184. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M., Giagkou, M., Kantzou, V., Stamouli, S., Varlokosta, S., Mitzias, I. et al. (2013). Second language assessment in the Greek educational system: the case of Reception Classes. Glossologia, 21, 75-89. [...] 
• Kantzou, V. (2012). The temporal structure of narratives in second language acquisition of Greek. In Gavriilidou Ζ., Efthymiou Α., Thomadaki Ε. & Kambakis-Vougiouklis P. (editors), Selected Papers - The 10th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, pages 354-364. Komotini, Greece : Democritus University of Thrace. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M. & Kantzou, V. (2011). On Narrative Future. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Greek Linguistics (ICGL 9), pages 288-297. Chicago USA. [...] 
• Kantzou, V. (2010). The temporal structure of narrative in the acquisition of Greek as a first and as a second language [In Greek]. Phd Thesis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Αθήνα. [...] 
• Antoniou-Kritikou, I., Giagkou, M., Kantzou, V. & Stamouli, S. (2010). Student as researcher: Exploiting corpora in language teaching [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Department, School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pages 98-111. Θεσσαλονίκη : Institute for Modern Greek Studies. [...] 
• Βαρλοκώστα, Σ., Ιακώβου, Μ., Kantzou, V., Papageorgakopoulos, J., Stamouli, S., Tzevelekou, M. et al. (2009). Tests for assessing young learners’ proficiency in Greek [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference for teaching Greek as a foreign language, pages 131-141. Αθήνα : University of Athens. [...] 
• Kantzou, V. (2009). The temporal structure of narrative in first language acquisition [in Greek]. In Studies in Greek Linguistics: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pages 465–477. Θεσσαλονίκη : Institute for Modern Greek Studies. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M., Stamouli, S., Kantzou, V., Papageorgakopoulos, J., Χονδρογιάννη, Β., Βαρλοκώστα, Σ. et al (2008). Greek as L2: European Framework for Language Assessment and assessing language proficiency in Greek [in Greek]. In Δραγώνα, Θ., Φραγκουδάκη & Α. (editors), Addition, not Subtraction, Multiplication, not Division: The educational reform of the minority of Thrace [in Greek]. Αθήνα : Metechmio. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M., Kantzou, V. & Stamouli, S. (2007). Basic grammar of Greek [In Greek]. Αθήνα : Πρόγραμμα Εκπαίδευσης Μουσουλμανοπαίδων (ΕΚΠΑ)–ΙΕΛ. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M., Vacalopoulou, A., Kantzou, V., Papavassiliou, V., Papageorgakopoulos, J. & Stamouli, S. (2006). Software for learning Greek as an L2 [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the Conference “Intercultural Education and Teaching of Greek as L2, pages 117-133. Λευκωσία : Cyprus Institute of Education. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M., Kantzou, V., Stamouli, S., Χονδρογιάννη, Β., Βαρλοκώστα, Σ., Ιακώβου, Μ. et al. (2006). Assessing proficiency in Greek in minority schools of Thrace [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the Conference “Intercultural Education and Teaching of Greek as L2, pages 100-116. Λευκωσία : Cyprus Institute of Education. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M., Kantzou, V., Stamouli, S., Χονδρογιάννη, Β., Βαρλοκώστα, Σ., Ιακώβου, Μ. et al. (2006). Assessing proficiency in Greek in minority schools of Thrace [In Greek]. In Α. Καββαδία, Μ. Τζωαννοπούλου & Α. Τσαγγαλίδης (editors), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Greek Applied Linguistics Association, pages 343–357. Θεσσαλονίκη : University Studio Press. [...] 
• Tzevelekou, M., Kantzou, V., Stamouli, S., Βαρλοκώστα, Σ., Χονδρογιάννη, Β., Papageorgakopoulos, J. et al. (2004). Greek as a second language: Rating scale and assessment of language proficiency in Greek of children attending Greek-Turkish bilingual minority schools of Western Thrace [in Greek]. Athens. [...] 
• Κατή, Δ. & Kantzou, V. (2004). Connectivity of narratives: Developmental and cross-linguistic approach [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pages 246-257. Θεσσαλονίκη : Κυριακίδης. [...] 
• Κατή, Δ. & Kantzou, V. (2002). Problems in the computational analysis of child speech [in Greek]. In Studies in Greek Linguistics: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pages 72-80. Θεσσαλονίκη : Κυριακίδης. [...]