New Approaches to Multilingualism, Language Learning, and Teaching

Dr Sviatlana Karpava is a lecturer of applied linguistics/TESOL (teaching English as a second language) at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus. Dr Karpava has published one manuscript, four edited volumes and numerous journal articles and book chapters on the areas of applied linguistics, first, second and heritage language acquisition, bi/multilingualism, sociolinguistics, education, digital literacy, and family language policy. Dr Natalia Pavlou is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cyprus. She is interested in syntax and morphology and their interface, and a major goal of her research is to understand the structure of sentences and words. She has also worked on experimental projects investigating adult speech and children's speech development in diglossic contexts.Professor Kleanthes K. Grohmann is Professor of Biolinguistics and Director of the CAT (Cyprus Acquisition Team) Lab at the University of Cyprus. Among other activities, he is the founding editor-in-chief of the platinum open-access journal Biolinguistics. Professor Grohmann has published widely on biolinguistics, syntactic theory, typical and atypical language acquisition and development, and multilingualism.