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Chryshochoos, Joseph E. started teaching EFL in 1980 in both the private and the state
sector. Initially, he taught secondary school students until he was appointed as a School
Advisor. At present he is an Educational Consultant at the Pedagogic Institute, an
advisory body to the Ministry of Education in Greece. Furthermore, he has also written
many articles, presented papers at conferences, conducted pre- and in-service teacher
training seminars, participated in the writing of textbooks and organised student
exchanges.
Čok, Lucija is Professor of Multilingualism and Interculturalism, Scientific Counsellor
in the field of early multilinguality, and Rector of the University of Primorska. She has
paid particular attention to the social, psycho-linguistic and didactic aspects of teaching
and studying foreign languages; her research findings have been published in numerous
papers in French, Italian and English. She has lectured at foreign universities, has been
responsible for national development projects, and has coordinated international
projects. She is a member of numerous boards of experts that have prepared research
and education policy in Slovenia as well a member of High Assessment panels within
the directorates of European Commission.
From 2000–2002, she was a member of the Slovenian Government. As Minister of
Education, Science and Sport, she contributed to reforms in the educational system,
participated in the drawing up of national strategies related to the integration of
Slovenia in European Research Area (ERA) and the European Higher Education Area
(EHEA). For her work she has received high awards: in 2005, Knight of the Order of
the Grand Cross of Merit of the Republic of Italy (Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana)
and in 2006, Knight of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur) by the
President of the Republic of France.
Cross, Roy has been Director, British Council Scotland since September 2005, based in
Edinburgh, where he leads a team of 60 colleagues working on a range of Scottish, UK
and EU-funded projects and programmes in education, governance, languages, science
and the arts. His involvement with the ECML dates back to 1995 when he was working
in Bucharest and was invited to join the Romanian team attending the first annual
colloquy. Since that time he has been both a fan and a co-worker, reviewing project
proposals for the second and third medium-term programmes and acting as consultant
to the Secretariat on a cluster of projects during the 2004-2007 programme.
Dawson, Ciaran holds BA and DPhil in Irish from the University of Ulster and
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from the
National University of Ireland. Since 1997 he has been working in University College
Cork as co-ordinator for the use of ICT in the Centre for Oral Irish and as a member of
the University's Teaching and Learning team. He has been teaching Irish language to
non-Irish nationals since 1988. He teaches Irish language annually in Germany and
Spain.
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