Marilena Zoi is a German language teacher with a permanent appointment in Greek public primary education, currently seconded to the Language and Culture Centre of the University of Patras. She was born in Ioannina and grew up in Nuremberg, Germany, where she spent her childhood and adolescence.
She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the Department of German Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also graduated from the Department of Digital Media and Communication at the Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia in 2016. Since 2020, she has been a PhD candidate in the Department of Primary Education at the University of Ioannina.
She has experience teaching German to children, adolescents and adults. She has taught in public primary and secondary schools, vocational training institutes, technological educational institutes and universities.
She has published articles in Greece and internationally. One of her papers received a Best Paper Award among 400 scientific papers at the International Conference on Languages, Literature and Linguistics, held in Dubai on 28–30 December 2011.
She is an active member of the Panhellenic Association of University-Educated Teachers of German (PDV) and the Scientific Association for the Promotion of Educational Innovation (EEPEK).
Her research interests focus on teaching German as a second or foreign language, the teaching practicum of prospective teachers, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education, and mentoring.
German as a second/foreign language
Teacher education and professional development
Use of ICT in foreign language teaching
Mentoring
