The research programme aims at bringing forward the role of Theoretical Linguistics in First and Foreign Language Teaching. In particular, it focuses on Grammar and examines the ways in which principles of theoretical linguistics can be applied to language teaching in the Greek educational system (primary and secondary education).
Together with Greek as a first language, English has been included in the foreign languages, given that it is a compulsory one, along with German, which one of the two optional languages at School.
The main aim of the research programme is to connect the language courses (first and foreign language ones), and this comprises the achievement of the following goals:
a) To view Language and thus, the language course, as a uniform object of teaching and acquisition/learning both from the teachers’ and the students’ perspective.
b) To develop an educational/pedagogical Grammar, which, on the one hand, will adopt shared principles in the description of language systems and, on the other, will meet the requirements and the needs of modern language teaching.
The proposed connection, through the utilisation of the findings of current linguistic research contributes to the development of the linguistic ability and the critical literacy of the students.
