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TESOL Greece SIGs’ Live Webinar “Aspects of ELT”
18 January @ 10:55 am - 1:15 pm
TESOL Greece SIG's Live Webinar
"Aspects of ELT"
January 18th, 2026
The Event is Open to Everyone
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Plenary Speakers
EFL Teacher, IB English Teacher, MA in Specific Learning Difficulties; MA TESOL
11:00 - 11:30
Vasiliki Lismani
“Assessment for Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties:
Fair, Effective, Motivating”
This webinar explores how EFL assessment practices impact students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs). Moving beyond one-size-fits-all accommodations, it examines the effectiveness and differentiated, practical assessment design choices. The focus is on fairness, validity, and motivation, helping teachers assess English skills accurately while reducing frustration and disengagement for SpLD learners.
11:35 - 12:05
Sophia Avramidou
“Learning and Unlearning in the Adult TESOL Classroom”
This session explores learning and unlearning in the adult TESOL classroom, inviting teachers to reflect on their own experiences as adult learners alongside their students. It examines shared learning habits and common biases shaped by the Greek educational context, where language learning is often certification-driven. The session highlights the learning contract between teacher and learner and how adults redefine learning, progress, and success.
Sophia Avramidou is a certified adult educator and English teacher with a strong focus on adult learning and professional development. She also works as a career and business coach, supporting adult learners and teachers in building communication skills, confidence, and career direction. She is passionate about empowering adults through meaningful, goal-oriented education.
Konstantia Galatianou has been teaching English for over 25 years, specialising mainly in exam classes. She is a certified examiner for Cambridge and the Hellenic American Union, and she currently teaches at the British Council and Diavati School. Having completed the DELTA and now pursuing a Master’s in TESOL, she keeps learning alongside her students. Her love mentoring inquisitive minds, and as a lifelong learner myself, she has come to realise one truth: “The more I learn, the less knowledgeable I feel.”
12:10 - 12:40
Konstantia Galatianou
“From Robotic to Real: Boosting Naturalness and Spontaneity in Teen EFL Speech”
Many teen EFL learners speak accurately yet sound as if they are reading from invisible cue cards. This webinar explores why naturalness and spontaneity often lag behind fluency and how classroom routines can quietly train students to perform rather than communicate. The session shares practical strategies and tools such as Woodpecker, LyricsTraining and voice shadowing to help teens sound less robotic and more human.
12:45 - 13:15
Dimitris Maroulis
“To Thine Own Self Be True”
“Emotional Labour”, coined by Hochschild (1979,1983), defined as ‘the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display’ (1983: 7). It describes the “inner feelings” in some sort of negotiation with the language learning environment stakeholders. This constant negotiation is what we can call nowadays “emotional management”. This short presentation will focus on the language teacher’s “inner feelings”, what they are, their effects and how they can be managed effectively using Emmy van Deurzen’s “compass of emotion” system (Parish, 2010; van Deurzen, 2015).
Dimitris Maroulis: Teacher of English, Director of Studies at Dimitris Maroulis Language Centre since 1993