Dr Andrie Yiakoumetti
Position/Status
- Teaching Associate
E-mail Address
ay212@cam.ac.uk
Phone
01223 767600
Website
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ay212
Phone
01223 767600
Qualifications
- BA (University of Cyprus)
- MPhil (University of Cambridge)
- PhD (University of Cambridge)
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain
- British Association of Applied Linguistics
- University of Cambridge Linguistic Society
- Cambridge Commonwealth Society
Profile
Dr Yiakoumetti's research focuses on sociolinguistic and educational aspects of second-language/dialect acquisition. The core of her research is assessing and interpreting patterns of transference from the native variety to the developing non-native variety. She is also interested in gauging the prevailing language attitudes in diglossic, bidialectal and multilingual societies. A consequent interest lies in establishing whether language performance is influenced when purely attitudinal changes are encouraged. Her teaching responsibilities within the Faculty mostly involve lecturing and supervising MPhil and PhD candidates.
Academic Area/Links
- Applied Linguistics: the sociolinguistic phenomena of diglossia, bidialectism, bilingualism, and multilingualism.
- Language Education: second/foreign-language education
Research Topics
- Bidialectism and linguistic performance
- The interface between bidialectism and language attitudes
- Bilingual and multilingual education
- Sociolinguistic aspects of foreign-language learning
Current Research Projects
- Language attitudes in bidialectal communities
- The influence of bidialectism in the foreign-language class
- Interaction and self-expression using weblogs in EFL classes
- Strategic analogy-based ESL phonics instruction
Course Involvement
- MPhil in Research in Second Language Education (lecturing and supervising)
- MPhil in Educational Research (supervising)
- PhD (supervising doctoral research in educational linguistics)
Publications
Yiakoumetti, A. (2007) Choice of classroom language in bidialectal communities: to include or to exclude the dialect? Cambridge Journal of Education. 37(1): 51-66.
Yiakoumetti, A. (2007) The influence of a bidialectal language intervention programme on learning of Standard Modern Greek in an urban and a rural Cypriot school. In Papapavlou, A. and Pavlou, P. (eds) Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Dimensions of Dialects in Education. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. Pp. 145-164.
Yiakoumetti, A., Papapavlou, A. and Pavlou, P. (2007) The degree of dialectal transference by Cypriots in a strict Standard Modern Greek context. In Agathopoulou, E., M. Dimitrakopoulou and D. Papadopoulou (eds) Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Vol. 1. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Pp. 266-273.
Yiakoumetti, A. (2006) A bidialectal programme for the learning of Standard Modern Greek in Cyprus. Applied Linguistics. 27(2): 295-317.
Yiakoumetti, A., Evans, M. and Esch, M. (2005) Language Awareness in a bidialectal setting: the oral performance and language attitudes of urban and rural students in Cyprus. Language Awareness. 14(4): 254-260. Edited volumes.
Yiakoumetti, A. (2003) Successful application of a Language Awareness learning model designed to improve performance in a second dialect. CamLing. Cambridge: Cambridge Institute of Language Research. Pp. 417-422.
Papapavlou, A. and Yiakoumetti A. (2003) The analysis and classification of non-standard occurrences in the writing of Greek Cypriot primary-school children. In Mela-Athanasopoulou, E. (ed.) Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Pp. 340-348.
Yiakoumetti, A. and Papapavlou, A. (2002) Evaluation of cultural universality with reference to culture-specific lexicon in Greek. In Makri-Tsilipakou, M. (ed.) Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Pp. 412-421.
Papapavlou, A and Yiakoumetti A. (2000) Accentuation problems among primary school children acquiring literacy skills in Modern Greek. In Nicolaidis, K. and M. Mattheoudakis (eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Pp. 352-361.