Dr hab. Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka, prof. UJ
Sign of zodiak: Gemini
Favourite colour: blue
Favourite book / poem: The horse whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Favourite musician / music band: Enya
Favourite song: Caribbean blue (by Enya of course)
https://youtu.be/Jl8iYAo90pE
Hobbies: gardening, horseback riding, cycling
Personal motto to live by:
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” Sigmund Freud
Courses / subjects taught: methods of teaching foreign languages, MA seminar, Language acquisition, Reflection in teaching
Participation in projects:
1/ Head of Department of Applied Linguistics and EFL Teaching at the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University
2/ Member of IAERL (International Association for the Educational Role of Language)
http://educationalroleoflanguage.org
3/ Participation in a number of academic conferences, e.g. The Multi-Disciplinary Conference: Research, Practice and Collaboration ‘Praxis: Applying theory in practice’, University of Malta Junior College; presentation: Developing critical reading skills – theories and practices; 2019
Recent publications:
· Newbury, P., K. Newbury and M. Kusiak. 2004. Boomerang Intermediate. Podręcznik dla Gimnazjum. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Szkolne PWN.
· Kusiak, M. 2013. Reading Comprehension in Polish and English: Evidence from an introspective study. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.
· Daszkiewicz, Michał, Ryszard Wenzel i Kusiak-Pisowacka, Monika, 2018. Educational Role of Language Skills. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.
Topics / questions pursued:
1/ Reading in a FL: a path of pleasure or a path of pain?
2/ Coursebook or ”cursebook”? Do coursebooks deskill teachers?
Oksana Skryl Ass.Prof. at Kharkiv Karazin National University
Sign of zodiak: Pisces
Favourite colour: blue
Favourite book / poem: Friendship with God by Neal Donald Walsch
Hobbies: travelling, cycling
Personal motto to live by:
“Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain
Courses / subjects taught: English for Philosophers, Ethics in English.
Participation in projects:
1/ PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages for Professional Purposes, Kharkiv Karazin National University
2/ Member of International Organization of English teachers «TESOL-UKRAINE»
3/ Participation in a number of conferences, e.g. the International conference «Comparing Philosophical Traditions: Selfhood, Historicity and Representation between Hermeneutics and Pragmatism». Università Degli Dtudi Di Cagliari, Italy, 2019.
4/ Participation in ‘New Media In Higher Education: Changing the Methodologies Used in the Contemporary Classroom’ in Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi (FSMVÜ), Istanbul (Turkey), 2021
Recent publications:
· O. Skryl, T.Podolska. 2017. VOICES-POSITIONS IN DISCOURSES: HOW IS IDENTITY POSSIBLE? Anthropological measurements of philosophical research. Dnipropetrovs’k National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan (Dnipro). Issue 11. pp. 23-32.
· O. Skryl, O. Parfenova. 2018. TO THE QUESTION OF THE LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY AND ITS COMPONENTS. Development of philological sciences in countries of the European Union taking into account the challenges of XXI century: Collective monograph. Lublin : Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing”, pp. 362 – 381.
· O. Skryl , O. Parfyonova. 2021. TO THE QUESTION OF CLIL APPROACH IMPORTANCE. European Socio-Legal Humanitarian Studies, The Faculty of Letters in Baia Mare. № 1. pp. 133-139.
Dr Marcin Kleban
Sign of zodiak: Cancer
Favourite colour: blue
Favourite book / poem: The Master and Margarita by M. Bulgakov
Favourite musician / music band: Direct Straits
Favourite song: Romeo and Juliet
Hobbies: football, cycling, hiking, cooking
Personal motto to live by:
‘A now young Skywalker, you will die’ – Darth Vader
Courses / subjects taught: methods of teaching foreign languages, BA seminar, teaching and researching writing
Participation in projects:
1/ Teachers of English for Future Europe http://tefe.online
2/ Mission Based Learning http://missions4change.org
Recent publications:
· MacKinnon, Teresa; Ensor, Simon; Kleban, Marcin; Trégoat, Claude. (2020). Recognising participation in virtual exchange: open badges and the CLAVIER contribution. In Helm, Francesca; Beaven, Ana (Eds), Designing and implementing virtual exchange – a collection of case studies (pp. 141-152). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.45.1122
· Kleban, M., Ensor, S., & Rodrigues, C. (2021) Hybrid pedagogical design in intercultural competence development. In: Brassier-Rodrigues, C. & Brassier, P.(eds.) Internationalisation at Home: A collection of pedagogical approaches to develop students’ intercultural competences. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 55-78
· Simon Ensor, Marcin Kleban et Christine Blanchard Rodrigues, « Intégration d’un échange interculturel hybride dans un programme d’anglais pour non-spécialistes », Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures [En ligne], 20-1 | 2022, mis en ligne le 30 septembre 2022, consulté le 03 octobre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/11499 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/rdlc.11499
Topics / questions pursued:
1/ Digital technologies: a blessing or a curse?
2/ How do I teach you the writing skills in English?
mgr Szymon Fijałkowski
Sign of zodiak: Taurus
Favourite colour: white
Favourite book / poem: The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Favourite musician / music band: Mela Koteluk
Favourite song: Odlatujemy (by Mela Koteluk)
Pets: two horses, pug
Hobbies: horse riding, photographing
Personal motto to live by: Everything happens for a reason.
Courses / subjects taught: Teaching ESL in secondary school
Education:
1/ Master’s degree: Jagiellonian University in Cracow. 2021.
Title of the dissertation: The use of the mother tongue by Polish teachers of English at secondary school level – written under the supervision of dr hab. Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka, prof UJ.
2/ Bachelor’s degree: University College of Social Sciences and Foreign Languages in Gliwice. 2019.
Title of the dissertation: Early bilingualism: Social factors influencing children’s linguistic development – written under the supervision of dr hab. Zofia Chłopek , prof. PŚ
Conferences:
1/ Wrocław Meetings of Young Philologists. 2021. University of Wrocław.
Title of the paper: Anxiety among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study based on a questionnaire with Joanna Jarosz.
2/ International online session: COVID – a source of threats or opportunities for linguistic education? 2021.Education Role of Language Network. Title of the presented project: Online schooling and anxiety – with Joanna Jarosz.
Dr Dagmara Kowalewska
Favorite book: Rediscovering Emily, B.K. Dell
Favorite color: grey and military green
Favorite song: So Will I (100 billion times) Hillsong United
Interests: counseling, leadership, American culture and anything creative 😊
Skills: writing (including poetry – 2 volumes published), cooking, hosting events
A happy mother of a daughter and a proud owner of Borgi the cat 😊
I love combining teaching with self-development and using creativity to make mundane things fun.
Courses taught at university: reading, speaking, creative writing, integrated skills, American literature, leadership, communication.
Doctoral dissertation – Educational values in the Harry Potter series.
Dr Ewa Bandura
Favorite book: impossible to choose one by a book lover and literature teacher
Favorite color: blue, blue, blue …
Favorite music: impossible to choose one by a music lover and choir singer
Interests: singing, ballet watching, travelling, photographing
I devote much of my time to visiting new places as near as my neighbourhood Krowodrza in Kraków and as distant as Australia, to learn about their history, culture, people and languages. The moto for this: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”–Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logigo-philosphicus, 1922.
Courses taught at university: Intercultural communication, critical skills, reading and writing, British literature
Selected publications:
Bandura, E. (2007). Nauczyciel jako mediator kulturowy. Kraków: Tertium.
(2013). Developing teachers’ critical pedagogic competence: from teacher autobiography to teacher-designed intercultural activities, w: S. A. Houghton, Y. Furumura, M. Lebedko and S. Li (Red.), Critical cultural awareness: managing stereotypes through intercultural (language) education, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2015). The ABCs as a Tool for Critical Intercultural Development, w: C. Finkbeiner & A. M. Lazar (Red.), Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs: A Journey Toward Intercultural Understanding, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing (2019) Romanowski, P. & E. B. (eds.) Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts, Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Topics / questions pursued:
1/ How to overcome barriers to intercultural communication
2/ How not to get manipulated by the media and internet sources
Personal motto to live by:
“You must demand of yourselves, even if others would not demand of you!” (Pope John Paul II, Meeting with youth, Jasna Gora, 1983)
Ramon Shindler, M.Sc.
https://youtu.be/Q9iNd_2cWnI
Graduate of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and the Department of French at the University of Liverpool.
Sign of zodiak: Leo
Favourite colour: Black
Favourite book / poem: Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Favourite musician / music band: Leonard Cohen
Favourite song: I’m My Own Grandpa (Muppets’ version)
Hobbies: Cinema, Football, Table Tennis, Cricket
Personal motto to live by: If you don’t know where you are going you can’t get lost
Courses / subjects taught: Senior Lecturer in the Institute of English Philology at the Jagiellonian University. Teacher and trainer in Sweden, Germany, Argentina, Belarus, Kosovo. For many years worked for the British Council in Poland, Ukraine and Armenia.
Participation in projects: Co-author (with W. Graniczewski) of, and actor in, the following educational entertainment series for Polish TV: Windy Lifts, The Perfect Stranger, Ups and Downs, 5-10-15, Lippy and Messy (The Wizard of Words), The Best Guest Show, Satirical Animals
Publications: Language and Style in the Press, Found Alphabet, Time for a Rhyme, Lippy and Messy Songs and Games, Lippy and Messy ABC, Henio and The Four Strings
Topics / questions pursued (as a teacher and not only): How to have fun: Lippy and Messy, Messy and Lippy, learn when they play and play when they learn.
Kamil Mieciek
Sign of zodiak: Cancer
Favourite color: green
Favourite book / poem: A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Favourite musician / music band: Arctic Monkeys
Hobbies: IT, 3D printing, tinkering
Personal motto to live by: There is no spoon.
Role in the project: website admin
