Department of German Language and Literature

Dr. Athanasia (Nancy) Kontomitrou is Associate Lecturer at the Department of German Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied German Language and Literature at the same department and specialized in the field “Methodology-Teaching”. She continued her studies with a Master in “Teaching German as a Foreign Language” at the Hellenic Open University, from which she was awarded a fellowship for two academic years.

She holds a PhD in Teaching German as a Foreign Language from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Since 2007 she is a member of the scientific team for the development of tests for the State Certificate of Language Proficiency (KPG) in the German Language, in which she also works since 2018 as a coordinator of the scientific team. She has also worked as a coordinator of script raters in the German Language for the State Certificate of Language Proficiency in the Script Rating Centre and she has taken part in organizing and conducting seminars for script raters.

She was a member of the scientific team for updating teaching material for the module „Lesson Planning and Evaluation” of the Postgraduate Program “Teaching German as a Foreign Language” of the Hellenic Open University. At the academic year 2019/2020 and at the summer semester of the academic year 2020/2021 she was also a tutor at the Postgraduate Program “Teaching German as a Foreign Language” at the Hellenic Open University.

She belongs to the teaching personnel at the distance training program "Routes in teaching Modern Greek as a second/foreign language" of the Centre for the Greek Language.

She has taken part in congresses and conferences and has published articles in the field of language teaching and evaluation. Her academic interests include Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, development of teaching material, assessing foreign language competence and development and evaluation of language tests.