Department of German Language and Literature

Elena- Phoebe Chytiri

Research assistant 

Raum 737

Ε-mail: hfchitiri[at]gs.uoa[dot]gr

Tel. +30 210 7277317

Elena-Phoebe Chytiri was born in Athens and graduated from the German School of Athens. She studied German at the University of Athens and, as a DAAD scholarship holder, also at the University of Heidelberg. She completed her Masters and PhD in Applied Linguistics on a scholarship at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her main areas of study were the reading processes of native speakers and bilingual readers as well as the diagnosis and treatment of learning difficulties. She was an Assistant Professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she trained elementary and high school teachers in the methodology of teaching language arts and English as second language. In Greece she has worked for a long time as a German teacher in private (primary) and public (primary and secondary) schools. She has taught bachelor's and master's courses on reading, dyslexia and learning disabilities at the University of Patras. From 2002 to 2008 she was a lecturer in the M.Edprogram in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at the Hellenic Open University. She has presented papers at national and international conferences and conducted in-service training seminars for teachers on the subject of learning disabilities. Since 2019 she has been working as a research assistant at the Department of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research and teaching interests focus on foreign language teaching in elementary school, dealing with learning difficulties in foreign language teaching, and issues concerning foreign language teaching in a multicultural context.