Bessie Dendrinos is Professor at the Faculty of English of the UoA –her academic home for teaching graduates and undergraduates, and for carrying out politically and socially sensitive research in foreign language teaching and assessment. Mainly concerned with the discursive practices of TEFL and European educational language planning, her areas of expertise are language politics in the E.U. and foreign language pedagogy, curriculum and materials development, as well as language testing. She has worked in the traditions of educational linguistics and critical discourse analysis and published widely in English and Greek, but some of her work has been translated in Spanish and Portuguese. Since 2003, she has devoted much of her time to developing a national examination system for the certification of foreign language proficiency in Greece, and for the last three years she has been very involved with the work of the European Commission (DG EAC) in its project for the promotion of multilingualism.  

Evdokia Karavas holds a doctorate from the University of Warwick where she taught EAP for a number of years and until 1999 was lecturer at the Centre for English Language Teacher Education. She is currently assistant professor at the Faculty of English Studies of the University of Athens, co-coordinator of the Pre-service teacher education programme and assistant Director of the RCeL (Research Centre for Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment of the University of Athens). Her research interests include curriculum/ programme evaluation, implementation research, language teacher education and development. She has publications in these areas in local and international journals.

Bessie Mitsikopoulou is Associate Professor at the Department of Language and Linguistics, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Athens. She holds a PhD in Critical Discourse Analysis (University of Athens), an MA in Applied Linguistics (University of Reading, UK), a Postgraduate Specialist Diploma in Computers in Education (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) and a BA in English Language and Literature (University of Athens). Her research interests are in the areas of critical discourse analysis, educational linguistics and new technologies in language education. She is the Director of the Centre of Self-Access Learning Centre and Materials Development. Her recent book Rethinking Online Education: Media, ideologies, and Identities is published by Paradigm Publishers (hardcover 2013, paperback 2014).

Thomai Alexiou is Lecturer at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.  She teaches pedagogy and methodology of language teaching while she is also the coordinator of the Module ‘Teaching English to Young Learners’ at the Hellenic Open University. Her research interests concern early foreign language learning and material development for young learners. She has co-authored and edited Magic Book I and Magic Book II, the English language textbooks for Greek third graders and has published her research in international journals, books and conference proceedings. 

Marina Mattheoudakis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She teaches courses in second language acquisition and language teaching methodology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has coordinated and participated in several research projects related to bilingualism, teaching foreign languages to young learners, human rights in education, etc. She is the Chair of the Model Experimental Primary School, which is supervised by the School of English. Her main research interests lie in the areas of second language learning and teaching, corpora and their applications. She has co-authored and edited Magic Book I and Magic Book II, the English language textbooks for Greek third graders and has published her research in international journals, books and conference proceedings.

Nicos Sifakis is an associate professor in the School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) and director of the M.Ed. in TESOL programme. He holds a Ph.D. in language and linguistics from the University of Essex, UK. He is editor-in-chief of Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning. His research interests include intercultural communication and pedagogy, teaching and researching English as an international lingua franca, language teaching methodology, distance education, adult education and teacher education. 

Areti Sougari is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th). She holds an M.A. in Linguistics and English Language Teaching from the University of  Leeds, UK, and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Essex, UK. She is the co-ordinator of teaching practice in the School of English (A.U.Th). Her research interests include teaching English to young learners, teacher education and development and teaching English as an International Language.

Roula Tsokalidou a graduate of the English Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th) (1989), holds a PhD from Monash University, Australia (1994) in linguistics (language contact phenomena). She has taught at Khon Kaen University (Thailand), at Deakin and Monash Universities in Australia, the University of Strasbourg (France) and the University of Thessaly. She is currently an associate professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education in A.U.Th (since 2006). Her research and publications lie in the area of language contact, bilingualism and language teaching in multilingual settings.  Since 2009 she is the editor of Polydromo.