language development and pedagogy of the preschool child
Marina Tzakosta is Full Professor of the Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, University of Crete.
Her research interests expand to L1 development, L2 learning, dialectal evolution and the relation of dialects to standard Greek. She is a graduate of the University of Crete and the Leiden University Center of Linguistics (NL). She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Massachussetts at Amherst and a postodoctoral researcher at the University of Patras (IKY grantee).
She has participated in various international conferences and her works have been published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. She has also participated in numerous research programs as an external scientific associate or a principal investigator.
In 2014, she was awarded a John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation grant in order to create the "Digital Museum of Greek Oral History).
She has recently been awarded a visiting research fellowship by the Stanley Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University in order to conduct research on the Modern Greek dialects and test the validity of the Three Scales model (June - August 2018).