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About me
Achilleas Kostoulas is an applied linguist and language teacher educator at the Department of Primary Education, University of Thessaly, Greece. He holds a PhD and an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the University of Manchester, UK and a BA in English Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
His research explores a wide range of issues connected with language (teacher) education, including language contact and plurilingualism, linguistic identities and ideologies, language policy and didactics, often using a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory to tease out connections between them. Some of his work in the field includes the research monograph The Intentional Dynamics of TESOL (2021, De Gruyter; with Juup Stelma) and the edited volume Doctoral Study and Getting Published (2025, Emerald; with Richard Fay), as well as numerous other publications.
Achilleas currently contributes to several projects that bring together his long-standing interests in language education, teacher development, and the social dimensions of language learning. As the coordinator of the expert team of AI Lang (Artificial Intelligence in Language Education), an initiative of the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe, he works on developing principles and resources to help educators make informed, pedagogically grounded use of AI in their teaching. He also leads the University of Thessaly team of ReaLiTea (Research Literacy of Teachers), a project that supports language teachers in developing the capacity to engage with, and contribute to, educational research. Alongside these, he contributes to LocalLing, a Horizon-funded initiative to preserve and strengthen heritage and minority languages globally.
In addition to the above, Achilleas is the (co)editor-in-chief of the newly established European Journal of Education and Language Review, and welcomes contributions that explore the dynamic intersections between language, education, and society.
About this page
This page contains information for the members of the EU-funded Revitalisation of Linguistic Diversity & Cultural Heritage (LocalLing) project, who will be visiting the University of Thessaly (Volos Campus) in March 2026. The information is curated by the University of Thessaly LocalLing team, under the direction of Achilleas Kostoulas, but it is not in any way endorsed by the University of Thessaly or by the European Union. Likewise, the LocalLing team provides the information as a service to colleagues, but it does not necessarily endorse the services or venues described in this page.
The page was created on 21st December 2025 and it is regularly updated (last update 8 January 2026). The last update took place on 8th January 2026. Although every effort has been made to provide information that is factually correct at the time of writing, the authors cannot accept responsibility for errors in the information we have been given or subsequent changes.
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