Advancing Greek Heritage Language Education in Canada: The Hellenic Relay: A Community Action Study
暫譯: 推進加拿大希臘文化語言教育：希臘接力：社區行動研究

Themistoklis Aravossitas is a Lecturer in Modern Greek at the University of Toronto and York University. His work focuses on heritage language education, community-engaged research, and the educational experiences of diaspora communities in Canada. He serves as the principal investigator of The Hellenic Relay, a nationwide action study examining the conditions that shape intergenerational Greek language transmission and the needs of students, families, and educators. He is also the developer of greeklanguage.ca, a national digital resource supporting teachers, learners, and community organizations. His publications and editorial work explore heritage language schooling, teacher development, community education, and diaspora studies. His work brings together research, policy, and practice to inform curriculum design, community-university partnerships, and long-term planning for heritage language education in Canada and internationally.

Dr. Marianthi Oikonomakou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Primary Education at the University of the Aegean. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Athens and a master's degree in General and Applied Linguistics from Université René Descartes-Paris V, France. Her postdoctoral research (University of the Aegean, 2019) examines the development of language skills in Greek primary education. She teaches Linguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of the Aegean and the Hellenic Open University, and she has extensive experience teaching Greek as a second, foreign, and heritage language in diverse educational contexts. She has authored a range of scholarly publications, including Greek school textbooks and contributions to the Greek Language Curriculum (2022) for primary education, and is actively involved in teacher professional development initiatives in collaboration with the Greek Institute of Educational Policy. Her work has been published in international and leading Greek peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests include Greek linguistics, language education, literacies in educational settings, critical literacy, and curriculum studies.

德米斯托克利斯·阿拉沃西塔斯是多倫多大學和約克大學的現代希臘語講師。他的研究專注於傳承語言教育、社區參與研究，以及加拿大僑民社區的教育經驗。他擔任希臘語接力計畫的首席研究員，這是一項全國性的行動研究，旨在檢視影響代際希臘語傳承的條件，以及學生、家庭和教育工作者的需求。他也是greeklanguage.ca的開發者，這是一個支持教師、學習者和社區組織的全國數位資源。他的出版物和編輯工作探討了傳承語言學校、教師發展、社區教育和僑民研究。他的工作將研究、政策和實踐結合起來，以指導課程設計、社區與大學的夥伴關係，以及加拿大及國際上傳承語言教育的長期規劃。

瑪麗安西·奧伊科諾馬庫是愛琴海大學初等教育系的副教授。她擁有雅典大學的語言學博士學位，以及法國巴黎第五大學的通用與應用語言學碩士學位。她的博士後研究（愛琴海大學，2019年）探討希臘初等教育中語言技能的發展。她在愛琴海大學和希臘開放大學教授本科和研究生層級的語言學，並在多樣的教育環境中擁有教授希臘語作為第二語言、外語和傳承語言的豐富經驗。她撰寫了多篇學術出版物，包括希臘學校教科書和2022年初等教育希臘語課程的貢獻，並積極參與與希臘教育政策研究所合作的教師專業發展計畫。她的研究成果已發表於國際及領先的希臘同行評審期刊。她的研究興趣包括希臘語言學、語言教育、教育環境中的識字能力、批判性識字以及課程研究。