Dr. Elina Stylianou is a Student Development Coach at the University of Leeds, supporting students at the School of Education to thrive academically. She has a PhD in TESOL; she designed and delivered a novel intervention to explore the use of a culturally familiar literary text in teaching English as a foreign language. She was awarded the People’s Choice Award at the Three-Minute Thesis competition. She has a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature and a master’s in English Literature. Her academic experience includes roles as a Teaching Fellow in TESOL and an Academic Skills Tutor in the UK. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and her research interests include literature in EFL teaching and academic skills provision in Higher Education.
Dr. Elina Stylianou
Presentation Title: Materials Design: A Reader-Response approach to using Homer’s Odyssey in the Cypriot EFL context
University of Leeds, The United Kingdom
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