Department of German Language and Literature

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Anna Chita studied "German Philology: German as Foreign Language/ German as Second Language" at the University of Augsburg. Her Master dissertation was "German-Greek Code-Switching on the example of young people in Augsburg and the Consequences for the German as Foreign Language Teaching". The dissertation subject dealt with the “Evaluation's criteria in writing skills B2 and C1 and their validity" (2009). Her specialist field concerns the German as Foreign Language/ German as Second Language, contrastive and applied Linguistic, and Intercultural communication, pragmatics, translation/mediation and test development. Some important field studies and research programs on which she co-worked were “Legal and community interpreting”, “Community interpreting” and “Evaluation of testers”. She worked for many years in several courses and integration courses for young and adult migrants and refugees in Germany. Since 2003 she is scientific co-operator of the approved testing for foreign languages of the Greek Ministry of Cultural Affairs for the Further Education of the examiners. 2010-2019 she was adjunct lecturer of the Higher Technical Institute “Business Administration” of Igoumenitsa/Greece at the course of studies "Applied foreign languages in Trade and Management". Since February 2019 she holds the professorship of Applied Linguistics/Didactics of German as a foreign language at the Department of German Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens. She is also responsible for the BIP "Multicultural and multilingual Mediation: Second or/and foreign Language Acquisition on the example of the German language" of the CIVIS Alliance. She leads the Institute for Multimedia and Language Applications, which belongs to the Department. She has published papers in national and international journals as well as presented in conferences.