Publications

Articles 

Faitaki, F. & Logan, I. (in preparation). Developing young children's language through drama: What benefits and barriers do teachers perceive?

Faitaki, F., Nation, K. & Murphy, V.A. (under review). Task effects in morphosyntactic production: Comparing elicited repetition and elicited production in Greek-English sequential bilingual children. [Preprint] [Materials, Data, Code]

Faitaki, F., Nation, K. & Murphy, V.A. (under review). Crosslinguistic influence and linguistic dominance in Greek-English sequential bilingual children’s production of sentential subjects. [Preprint] [Materials, Data, Code]

Faitaki, F., Nation, K. & Murphy, V.A. (under review). Dominance-driven facilitation in Greek–English sequential bilingual children's use of infinitival 'to'. [Preprint] [Materials, Data, Code]

Faitaki, F., Wu, X., Liggins, S. & Li, J. (under review). Developing young language learners' oral language through drama-based activities: A systematic review.

Faitaki, F., Liggins, S. & Murphy, V.A. (2025). Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention. First Language. 45(3), 282-302. 

Chen, Z. & Faitaki, F. (2024). The effects of the French grammatical gender system on French-English bilingual adults’ perception of objects. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 28(2), 401-414. 

Chalmers, H. Faitaki, F. & Murphy, V.A. (2023). Setting Research Priorities for English as an Additional Language: What do research users want from EAL research?. Language Teaching for Young Learners, 6(1), 5-31. 

Faitaki, F. & Murphy, V.A. (2023). Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English. Second Language Research, 40(4), 911-933. 

Faitaki, F., Nation, K., & Murphy, V.A. (2021). Immersion in the Early Years: The future of education and children’s key to success. Proceedings of the Yidan Prize Doctoral Conference, 1, 125-136. 

Book Chapters

Faitaki, F. & Murphy, V.A. (2022). “Using theatre to improve English as an Additional Language learners’ communication skills: A feasibility trial”, in B. Cortina-Pérez, A. Andúgar, A. Álvarez, S. Corral, N. Martínez & A. Otto (Eds.). Addressing Future Challenges in Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education (pp.141-148). Madrid: Dykinson.

Faitaki, F., Hessel, A.K. & Murphy, V.A. (2022). “Vocabulary and grammar development in young learners of English as an Additional Language”, in M. Schwartz (Ed.). International Handbook of Early Language Education (pp. 428-444). Cham: Springer.

Faitaki, F. & Murphy, V.A. (2020). “Oral elicitation tasks in language acquisition research”, in H. Rose and J. McKinley (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (pp. 360-369). London: Routledge.

Reports

Hillyard, S., Cortina-Pérez, B., Faitaki, F. & Mourão, S. (in press). Pre-primary English: How to do it well. Oxford University Press. 

Reviews

Faitaki, F. (2023). Review of "Performative Language Teaching in Early Education: Language Learning through Drama and the Arts for Children 3-7", by J. Winston. Language Teaching for Young Learners, 5(2), 245-251. 

Web Publications

Faitaki, F. (2023). Developing Oral Language through a Drama-Based Intervention. Oxford Education Deanery Digests.

Faitaki, F. (2021). Using theatre to improve children’s communication skills: Reflections on the project and plans for the future. TORCH Blog.

Faitaki, F. (2018). Becoming bilingual at preschool: Greek children’s acquisition of subject pronouns in English. EAL Journal.