Email me for pre-prints and/or presentations at tiasavvani@outlook.com
Peer-reviewed Journal Publications
Moreno-Romero, C., Enn, Ü., Savvani, S., & Pantazis, A. (2024). Educational commons facilitating student voice: an ethnographic approach. Education 3-13, 52(6), 891-910. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03004279.2024.2331952 ]
Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings
Savvani, S. (2019). State-of-the-art Duolingo features and applications. In The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2018)-Volume 2 (pp. 139-148). Springer International Publishing. eBook ISBN 978-3-030-11935-5 [https://repository.essex.ac.uk/25974/]
Savvani, S., & Liapis, A. (2019). A participatory approach to redesigning games for educational purposes. In Games and Learning Alliance: 8th International Conference, GALA 2019, Athens, Greece, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings 8 (pp. 13-23). Springer International Publishing. eBook ISBN 978-3-030-34350-7 [https://repository.essex.ac.uk/25928/]
Savvani, S. (2020, September). Formalizing Casual Tabletop Games for Language Teaching. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (pp. 1-4). ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-8807-8
Savvani, S. (2020, September). Emotions and challenges during game creation: Evidence from the global game jam. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Games Based Learning. DOI:10.34190/GBL.20.063
Book Chapters
Savvani, S. (2021). Meaningfully Engaging EFL Students in the Digital School: Teacher Attitudes and Best Practices. In Fostering Meaningful Learning Experiences Through Student Engagement (pp. 92-118). IGI Global Scientific Publishing.
Moreno-Romero, C., Savvani, S., Enn, Ü., & Pantazis, A. (2024). Commoning for Social Justice: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation in Two Learning Environments. In Educational Commons: Democratic Values, Social Justice and Inclusion in Education (pp. 213-233). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. [ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-51837-9_12 ]
Monographs
Savvani, S. (2023). Language teacher emotions in game-informed teaching (Doctoral dissertation, University of Essex). [ https://repository.essex.ac.uk/35443/ ]
Presentations to international conferences
21st International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Kos, Greece, 25-28/09/2018, Presentation of my paper “State-of-the-art Duolingo: Features & Applications (conference page: https://www.icl-conference.org/icl2018/ ) [Speaker]
Games and Learning Alliance Conference, Athens, Greece, 27-29/11/2019: Presentation of the co-authored paper: A participatory approach to redesigning games for educational purposes. [Student Helper & Speaker]
14th European Conference on Game-Based Learning, University of Brighton, UK, 24-25/09/2020: Presentation of my paper: Emotions and challenges during game creation: Evidence from the global game jam [Speaker]
Research in TESOL Symposium, University of Nicosia, 13/11/2021:Presentation of my talk “Language Teachers’ Emotions in Gameful Teaching” (invited talk) (One-day conference programme: https://www.unic.ac.cy/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/P3826-Programme-1.pdf ) [Speaker]
Mental Health in Foreign Language Education, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 26-27/11/2021: Presentation of my joined talk with Dr Christina Gkonou on: “The impact of game-based teaching on teachers’ emotions” (2-day hybrid symposium: https://tisonline.brandenburg.de/get-data/dac03a00-d508-47af-ac9f-cace03b4e382/mentale%20Gesundheit.pdf ) [Speaker]
Digital Games Research Association Conference, The Limits and Margins of games, Sevilla, 19-23/06/2023: Presentation of my abstract “A post structuralist understanding of integrating games in education”(Conference website: https://digra2023.org/# , Proceedings (early format): http://www.digra.org/digra-2023-proceedings-are-now-out/ ) [Speaker]