dr Sviatlana Karpava

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics/TESOL and Co-coordinator of the Testing, Teaching and Translation Lab. She is MC/Core group member/ WG5 Leader of the EuroFam Cost Action Network, Chair of Cyprus Teachers of English Association (CyTEA), General Secretary of Early Language Learning Research Association (ELLRA), Steering Group Member of the Association for Educational Assessment-Europe (AEA), active member and research collaborator of the Cyprus Linguistic Society (CyLing), the Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity Office (UCY), Cyprus Acquisition Team (CAT) and Harmonious Bilingualism Network (HaBilnet). She is a senior editor and production head of the English as a Foreign language International Journal and an associate editor and style editor of the MEXTESOL Journal. She is the Principal Investigator of the two internally funded (University of Cyprus) research projects: MIGDISCY- Migration, Discourse, Cyprus and Heritage Language Maintenance, Variation, and Change (2021-2023). She has presented her research at numerous international conferences and published her research work in various peer-reviewed journals. Her area of research is applied linguistics, second/third language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, teaching and education.