FOHLC Café - Journey Around the World 2026 - The case of home tutoring for Greek as a heritage language
Join us for the next edition of the FOHLC Café, where we continue our journey around the world!
Date
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Time
20:00 Central European Time (find your time here: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)
Location
Online (via Zoom)
Language
English
Cost
Free (registration required)
Registration
Organizers
Jana Nahodilova, Czech and Slovak School Okénko in London, England
Renata Emilsson Peskova, Móðurmál – the Association on Bilingualism & University of Iceland
Gisi Cannizzaro, Heritage Language Education (HLE) Network, the Netherlands
Agnieszka Pedrak, Trinity College Dublin, Polish School by the Embassy of Poland in Dublin, Ireland
Isabelle Barth, Association pour la Promotion et l'Avancement du Multilinguisme (A.P.A.M.), France
Sabine Little, University of Sheffield, England
Jessika Rabello, Educator of Portuguese as Heritage Language in the UK, founder of the Brazilian Library- Casa do Livro
Tereza Krymláková, Charles University, Czech Republic
Event description
Join us for the next edition of the FOHLC Café, where we continue our journey around the world! This time we will hear from an expert from the Greek community in the U.K.: how can we reimagine heritage language education to incorporate the practice of home tutoring?
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and come chat about your experiences with other people involved in heritage language education. Everyone is welcome: teachers, community organizers, and anyone interested in multilingualism.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Program
This time, we are honored to welcome Antonia Gkioka, PhD researcher in Linguistics at the University of Westminster. Her doctoral research, entitled “Reimagining Greek heritage language education: home tutoring and sociocultural identity,” looks at the understudied teaching method of home tutoring in Greek-as-a-heritage-language within London’s Greek community. Alongside her research, Antonia teaches Greek as a heritage and a foreign language, working with children and adult learners.
How does home tutoring influence a child's identity development as a Greek speaker, and how do technological developments like AI influence this form of education? What role does a family language policy (FLP) have in opting for home tutoring? Join us for a fascinating discussion about these issues, which may be applicable to your own language community.
Tags
Online, Community, Networking, Meetup
