Faidra Faitaki is a Departmental Lecturer in Second Language Acquisition at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She leads the Creative Approaches to Teaching English (CreATE) Group, which explores the relationship between language learning and the arts. Faidra has received a BA in Linguistics from UCL, as well as an MSc in Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition and a DPhil in Education from the University of Oxford. Faidra’s research explores the linguistic, cognitive, and educational factors that affect (pre)school-aged children’s acquisition of English as a second language. She is also interested in how children’s language can be developed through creative activities, with a particular focus on the use of drama.
