Eleni Korosidou

Working title of the dissertation: Processing Instruction for the Acquisition of the Causative and the Subjunctive in English as a Foreign Language

Eleni Korosidou is currently working on her PhD in the field of psycholinguistics, focusing on the role of processing instruction and structured input in language acquisition. Her interest in TEFL was particularly sparked during her time as a Master's student at LMU, where she conducted a case study on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and its implementation at an experimental elementary school in Greece for her Master's thesis. Her teaching experience includes teaching English to groups of learners of different ages, from primary school students in a more traditional TEFL classroom to older university students in a classroom more reminiscent of a CLIL setting. At LMU, she also took on a more modern role as an English coach for the university's Language Center's "FLIP" program, where she guided and coached (rather than taught) students on their language learning journey. As part of her MA studies, Eleni also had to complete an internship abroad, where she chose Malta. There she worked in a language center as both an administrative assistant and a language teacher, teaching English mainly to young learners who came to Malta for a week to get to know the island and improve their English skills. Eleni also holds a BA degree in English Language and Literature from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which offers insights into theoretical and applied linguistics as well as cultural and translation studies.