Eleni Skourtou is a Professor at the Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean. She teaches and does researches in cognitive areas: linguistic and cultural diversity at school, bilingualism, orality and written language, literacy & Multiliteracies, creation of meaning in multilingual environments. She has worked for the education of bilingual students (immigrants, children from culturally mixed families, children from socially / culturally different groups) in Greek school. In recent years she has focused on schooling Roma children in islands such as Mytilene, Chios, Rhodes, Kos.
Marina Mattheoudakis is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the School of English, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a graduate of the School of English and holds an MA in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language (University of Birmingham, U.K.) and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests lie in the areas of second language acquisition, bilingualism and bilingual education, language teaching methodology and corpus linguistics. She has participated in various research projects (the most recent of them being the teaching of foreign languages to learners with dyslexia, DysTEFL2, which was awarded the ELTons Awards, 2014).