General aim and scope
We explore the possibility to introduce popular culture texts (e.g. TV programs, advertisements, film) and social media (e.g. Facebook) in language courses of all levels of Greek education (pre-school, primary school, high school) through the design, development and assessment of learning material targeted to raise students’ critical awareness of linguistic variation phenomena. The basic idea which inspires the research is that the critical perspective on language education must cut across all levels of education.
Points of departure for the present project are:
a. the central role of popular culture and social media in today’s postmodern societies
b. the importance acknowledged to the introduction of popular culture and social media at school for the “missing link” between teacher and student scripts
c. the critical turn of language education, by deepening into the social meaning of sociolinguistic resources, and the emergence of "critical literacy" as the philosophy of Greek new school curricula (The "new school")
d. the polyphonic and heteroglossic character of postmodern mediascapes
Coordination and consortium
The project is being coordinated by Dr. Anastasia Stamou from the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. The research team consists of three research groups: University of Western Macedonia (principal investigator: Dr. Anastasia Stamou), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (principal investigator: Dr. Periklis Politis), University of Patras (principal investigator: Dr. Argiris Archakis) and two invited researchers (Prof. Jannis Androutsopoulos from the University of Hamburg and Dr. Sofia Lampropoulou from the University of Liverpool).
Funding ID
The present project is being conducted in the context of the Operational Program “Education and
Lifelong Learning”, co-funded by the EU (European Social Fund) and by Greek national resources. It is a Thales project (2011-2015), entitled: “Linguistic variation and language ideologies in mass cultural texts: Design, development
and assessment of learning material for critical language awareness” (Greek Ministry of Education
and Religious Affairs, MIS 375599)
We explore the possibility to introduce popular culture texts (e.g. TV programs, advertisements, film) and social media (e.g. Facebook) in language courses of all levels of Greek education (pre-school, primary school, high school) through the design, development and assessment of learning material targeted to raise students’ critical awareness of linguistic variation phenomena. The basic idea which inspires the research is that the critical perspective on language education must cut across all levels of education.
Points of departure for the present project are:
a. the central role of popular culture and social media in today’s postmodern societies
b. the importance acknowledged to the introduction of popular culture and social media at school for the “missing link” between teacher and student scripts
c. the critical turn of language education, by deepening into the social meaning of sociolinguistic resources, and the emergence of "critical literacy" as the philosophy of Greek new school curricula (The "new school")
d. the polyphonic and heteroglossic character of postmodern mediascapes
Coordination and consortium
The project is being coordinated by Dr. Anastasia Stamou from the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. The research team consists of three research groups: University of Western Macedonia (principal investigator: Dr. Anastasia Stamou), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (principal investigator: Dr. Periklis Politis), University of Patras (principal investigator: Dr. Argiris Archakis) and two invited researchers (Prof. Jannis Androutsopoulos from the University of Hamburg and Dr. Sofia Lampropoulou from the University of Liverpool).
Funding ID
The present project is being conducted in the context of the Operational Program “Education and
Lifelong Learning”, co-funded by the EU (European Social Fund) and by Greek national resources. It is a Thales project (2011-2015), entitled: “Linguistic variation and language ideologies in mass cultural texts: Design, development
and assessment of learning material for critical language awareness” (Greek Ministry of Education
and Religious Affairs, MIS 375599)