Edited by:
Angeliki Psaltou-Joycey
Supervised by:
Zoe Gavriilidou
The present guide is the collaborative work of university teachers, and EFL primary and secondary school teachers who have completed postgraduate studies, all specialising in applied linguistics and language learning strategy research. It is the fruition of the inspiration and initiative of Prof. Zoe Gavriilidou, who is academically responsible for the THALES project, a major project currently in progress in Greece that is co-financed by Greece and the European Union. The project is run collaboratively by four university Departments, and aims primarily at investigating the strategic profiles of learners of primary and lower secondary schools in Greece learning English as a foreign language (EFL), as well as the strategic profiles of Muslim learners attending minority schools in Thrace, North-Eastern Greece, learning both Greek as a second language and EFL. Besides having this primary aim, the project’s additional aim is to explore the strategic profiles of EFL teachers in Greece, given these are formed through the general teaching practices they promote and depict the degree of adoption of language strategy instruction and its integration in their EFL classes.
