English Language Education in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings

Dr Sviatlana Karpava is an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics/ Multilingualism and Coordinator of the MA in TESOL program at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus. She is Co-Director of the Discourse, Context and Society Lab and the Testing, Teaching and Translation Lab, Chair of Cyprus Teachers of English Association, active member/research collaborator of the Cyprus Linguistic Society, and Harmonious Bilingualism Network. Dr Karpava is MC member of CLILNetLE COST Action and WG member of the TraFaDy COST Action. Dr Karpava is the editor of several volumes on multilingualism and heritage language development (BRILL, 2024, Springer, 2025). She has presented her research at numerous international conferences and published her research work in various peer-reviewed journals. Her area of research is applied linguistics, second/third language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, teaching, and education.