SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY
INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM OF TEACHING MODERN
GREEK AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE TEACHING CENTER

H I S T O R Y

Teaching Modern Greek as a Foreign Language has very early been a concern of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Modern Greek teaching began in the 1950s along with teaching foreign languages within the classes and other activities offered to students by the Foreign Languages Teaching Center and it has been successful until today. In 1991 the Interdepartmental Program of Modern Greek as a Foreign Language was founded and has been working ever since then under the supervision of the Section of Linguistics of the Department of Philology and in 1994 it began to accept post-graduate students to be trained in teaching Modern Greek as a Foreign Language. Due to the constantly increasing demand, the Teaching Center started expanding both in size and scope and in 1994 it became independent and was integrated into the Interdepartmental Program.

The Teaching Center is a member of ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe) and certifies the required level of knowledge of Greek for the matriculation of foreign students in any Greek University.

The program called “Interdepartmental Program of Teaching of Modern Greek as a Foreign Language” is a cooperation of the Department of Philology and the Department of Philosophy-Pedagogy-Psychology. It is directed by a five-member committee of professors, who’s Director is the elected Proctor. The program is two-scoped: Apart from teaching Greek to foreigners (prospective students or not) it is responsible for the post-graduate training course for teachers of Greek as a Foreign Language, the first of its kind in Greece, which leads to the acquirement of the masters degree.

The teaching staff are all highly experienced teachers and /or graduates of post-graduate programs like the one mentioned above.