Elena Ioannidou is a sociolinguist and an Αssociate Professor in Language Education at the Department of Education, University of Cyprus. She holds a BA (Ed) in Education (University of Cyprus), an MA in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching (University of Southampton, UK), and a PhD in Sociolinguistics and Education (University of Southampton, UK). She has worked as a Lecturer and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Education, University of Cyprus (2009-2019), and as a postdoctoral fellow (2005-2006) and a Research Associate (2007-2009) at the Centre for Applied Language Research at the University of Southampton.
Her research interests focus on the concept of a social theory of language, on language variation and multilingualism, and on the interrelations of language and identity. Ioannidou is a trained ethnographer, with a special interest on linguistic ethnography and on studying linguistic communities. Her theoretical grounding lies in the constructs of language as performance, and on the interrelations of language choice and language values with larger social groupings such as linguistic communities and social networks. She is also interested in the pedagogical dimension of language teaching, focusing on issues of literacy, genre-based education and increasing metalinguistic awareness to achieve functional and critical literacy across all ages.
Her research projects have been funded by the EU, the Leventis Foundation, the Ministry of Education of Cyprus, and the University of Cyprus. She is a founding member of the Literacy Association of Cyprus, and has been a board member of the Linguistic Society of Cyprus.
Το ΑΚΜ – Αρχείο Κυπριακής Μουσικής είναι εταιρεία μη κερδοσκοπικού χαρακτήρα που ιδρύθηκε το 2022.