Aidinis Athanasios
Professor
Department of Social & Cultural Studies
Literacy acquisition in the First School Years
Office 503
On Scientific Leave
+30 2310 995095
aaidinis@eled.auth.gr
Mr. Aidinis graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education. His Master degree is from Institute of Education, University of London, Department of Child Development and Learning and his MA thesis is titled: ‘Phonological awareness in the first stages of Greek literacy’. He became a Doctor at the Institute of Education, University of London, Department of Child Development and Learning, and his PhD Thesis’ title is ‘Phonemes, morphemes and literacy development: Evidence from Greek’.
His research interests focus on the acquisition and teaching of literacy including both the reading, comprehension, text composition and spelling strategies children use developmentally, and the acquisition of the necessary knowledge for the implementation of these strategies, especially for children of the first primary grades of school. Moreover he is interesting in emergent literacy and language teaching in the early school years and in cognitive and social factors influencing literacy acquisition. His papers have been published in national and international journals and books.
- Aidinis, A. & Karandaidou, S. (2017). Negotiating anger, violence and punishment in the context of critical literacy in first grade. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Critical Pedagogy.
- Nunes, T. Aidinis, A. & Bryant, P. (2006). The acquisition of written morphology in Greek. In: M. Joshi & P. Aaron (Eds). Handbook of orthography and literacy (pp. 201-218). New Jersey
- Aidinis, A & Nunes, T. (2001). The role of different levels of phonological awareness in the development of reading and spelling in Greek. Reading and Writing: An Ιnterdisciplinary Journal, 14(1/2), 145-177.
- Nunes, T & Aidinis, A. (1999). A closer look at the spelling of children with reading problems. In: Τ. Nunes (Ed). Learning to read: An integrated view from research and practice (pp. 155-171). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Bryant, P., Nunes, T. & Aidinis, A. (1999). Different morphemes, same spelling problems: Cross-linguistic developmental studies. In: G. Hatano & Μ. Harris (Eds). Learning to read and write: A cross-linguistic perspective (pp. 112-133). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
