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Karpava, Sviatlana: - Sviatlana Karpava, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics/TESOL and Linguistics Section Coordinator at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Co-coordinator of the Testing, Teaching and Translation Lab, Co-Director of the Discourse, Context and Society (DISCONSO), received her PhD from the University of Cyprus (2014). She is MC/Core group member/ WG5 Leader of the EuroFam Cost Action Network, Board member of Cyprus Teachers of English Association (CyTEA), Executive Board Member of Early Language Learning Research Association (ELLRA), Steering Group Member of the Association for Educational Assessment-Europe (AEA), active member and research collaborator of the Cyprus Linguistic Society (CyLing), the Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity Office (UCY), Cyprus Acquisition Team (CAT) and Harmonious Bilingualism Network (HaBilnet). She is a senior editor and production head of the English as a Foreign language International Journal and an associate editor and style editor of the MEXTESOL Journal. She is the Principal Investigator of the two internally funded (University of Cyprus) research projects: MIGDISCY- Migration, Discourse, Cyprus and Heritage Language Maintenance, Variation, and Change (2021-2023) and YUFE Project (2022) Challenges and Opportunities of the Study Abroad Programs: Evidence from YUFE. Dr Karpava is the author of the book: Vulnerable Domains for Cross-Linguistic Influence in L2 Acquisition of Greek (Peter Lang, 2015) and the editor of the Handbook of Research on Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Higher Education and Implications for Teaching (IGI Global, 2022). She has presented her research at numerous international conferences and published her research work in various peer-reviewed journals. Her area of research is applied linguistics, second/third language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, teaching and education. Dr Karpava currently supervises two PhD students at the University of Cyprus. https: //www.ucy.ac.cy/dir/en/cb-profile/skarpa01.
