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Bessie Dendrinos is Professor Emerita and Director of the Research Institute for Multilingualism and Language Policy at the NKUA. She is Head of the Examination Board of the Greek national foreign languages examination suite known as KPG, and President of the European organisation ECSPM, home of the CURUM alliance. Her research interests lie in foreign language pedagogy, curriculum and materials development, plurilingual competence and intra-/cross-linguistic mediation, language testing and assessment. Her interest in socially accountable applied linguistics has also led her to investigate the bureaucratic discourse in Greek public documents, as well as linguistically construed gender ideology and the linguistic representations of poverty and of ecology. Her publications appear in English and Greek, but also in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Her book, The Hegemony of English (Routledge), co-authored with Macedo and Gounari, received the 2004 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award in the USA and was translated in several languages.
Personal website: http://scholar.uoa.gr/vdendrin/home
Recent publications
Collaborative peer learning mediation across the curriculum. La mediazione nell’ educazione plurilingue, Numero monografico a cura di Silvia Morandi et Monica Barni. “LEND: lingua e nuova dittatica”, No 3, Settembre 2025, Anno LIV, 2025.
Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education (edited collection), in Routledge Research in Language Series. Routledge, 2024.
Inclusiveness and Multilingualism in Higher Education in the Context of Internationalisation. In Irini-Tsamadou Jacoberger (Ed.). ANIME: Approaches and Practices on Inclusiveness and Internationalisation in Higher Education. University of Strasbourg: International Relations Office, 2023.
A data-driven curriculum and mediation for plurilingual education. David Little & Neus Figueras (Eds.) The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Towards a Road Map for Future Research and Development. Multilingual Matters, 2022 pp. 101-123
Μελέτη της γλώσσας και (αντι)οικολογική συνείδηση. [Critical analysis of language and the construction of (anti)ecological consciousness. Στο Σαλώμη Μπουκάλα & Αναστασία Γ. Στάμου (επιμ.) [In Salomi Boukala & Anastasia Stamou (Eds.) Critical Analysis of Language: (De)constructing the Greek Reality. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Νήσος [Athens: Nissos Publishing], 2021.
The magic of language and language teaching. In Thomas Tinnefeld (Ed.) The Magic of Language – Productivity in Linguistics and Language Teaching. Saarbrücker Schriften zu Linguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik (SSLF), 2020 (ISBN 978-3-942949-30-9)
The Politics of Foreign Language Policies, Teaching and Testing, Athens: Pedio publishers, 2020.
Multilingualism language policy in the EU today: a paradigm-shift in language education, TLC Journal of the International Language Association (ICC) & Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Volume 2, Issue 3, 2018 (doi: 10.29366/2018tlc.2.3).
Setting standards for multilingual curricula to teach and test foreign languages (co-authored with V. Gotsoulia). In Bernard Spolsky, Ofra Inbar-Lourie, Michal Tannenbaum (eds.) Challenges for Language Education and Policy: Making Space for People, Routledge, 2015.
The Politics of Early Language Learning Instructional Materials for English for Young Learners, in Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen & Csilla Weninger (eds.), Language, Ideology and Education: The politics of Textbooks in Language Education, Routledge, 2015.