• Ongoing research

• The Greek Foreign Language Learner Profile Project

• The Task Analysis Project

• Postgraduate research

PhD research

1. Alegre, Sandrine. (2011). La pluralite du concept de mediation. Etude de l’activite langagiere de mediation dans l’enseignment /apprentissage des langues et dans le systeme de certification en language francaise KPG. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
2. Balourdi, Amalia. (2012). World representations in language exam batteries: critical discourse analysis of texts used to test reading comprehension. PhD Thesis. Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. (http://rcel.enl.uoa.gr/kpg/research_phd_balourdi.htm)
3. Liontou, Trisevgeni. (2013). The effect of text and reader variables on reading comprehension: the case of the Greek State Certificate of English Language Proficiency Exams (KPG) - A New Text Difficulty Index for Automatic Text Classification. PhD thesis. Faculty of English Language and Literature. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
4. Stathopoulou, Maria. (2013). Task dependent interlinguistic mediation performance as translanguaging practice: The use to KPG data for an empirically based study. (PhD thesis). Faculty of English Language and Literature. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
5. Delieza, Xenia (2014). Interlocutor performance variability in language proficiency testing: the case of the Greek State Certificate Examinations. Faculty of English Language and Literature. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
6. Apostolou Elisabeth (2015). Exploring listening comprehension difficulty in language proficiency testing: the case of the Greek State Certificate Examination. Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
7. Charalampopoulou, Eleni (2015). Listening comprehension in language proficiency tests: a study of EFL test-takers’ strategy based performance in listening testing situations. Faculty of English Language and Literature. University of Athens.
8. Oikonomidou, Vassiliki (2016). Factors affecting read-to-write task difficulty. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
9. Karatza, Stella. Investigating the literacy requirements of reading comprehension test tasks: the case of the KPG exams in English. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (completion expected in 2017).
10. Blani, Virginia-Maria. A corpus-based research of candidates' scripts concerning text grammar. Faculty of English Language and Literature. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (completion expected in 2017).

MA theses (in English)

1. Gratsia-Orfanou, Eirini. Investigating aspects of validity in mediation tasks: a case study from the Greek State Certificate of Language Proficiency. MA Dissertation. Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University.
2. Karatza, Styliani. (2009). Assessing C1 KPG candidates’ pragmatic competence in written tasks: towards the design of task-specific rating scales. MA Dissertation. Faculty of English Language and Literature. University of Athens. Available at: http://rcel.enl.uoa.gr/kpg/ma-karatza.htm
3. Nikaki, Doriana. (2009). Integrating preparation for the A level KPG exams in the ‘All Day’ school programme: A proposal for an exam preparation syllabus. ΜΑ Dissertation. Faculty of Faculty of English Language and Literature. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Available at: http://rcel.enl.uoa.gr/kpg/ma-nikaki.htm
4. Stathopoulou, Maria. (2009). Written mediation in the KPG exams: Source text regulation resulting in hybrid formations. MA Dissertation. Faculty of English Language & Literature. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: http://rcel.enl.uoa.gr/kpg/texts/MA_thesis_Stathopoulou_mediation.pdf
5. Tsapaki, E. (2013). Investigating difficult reading comprehension test items: The case of KPG exams. MA Dissertation. Faculty of English Language & Literature. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: http://rcel.enl.uoa.gr/kpg/ma-tsapaki.htm
6. Voidakos, Irene. (2007). What mediators do: Analysing KPG candidates’ actual performance in written mediation tasks. MA Thesis. Faculty of Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

• Development of an Automatic Script Scoring System