Aleksandra Janczarska
Breno Barreto Silva
I obtained my PhD from the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw in 2021. My research interests focus on lexical learning, especially incidental lexical learning, through reading and writing. My main interest is on how tasks that are commonly used in the classroom facilitate lexical acquisition. As such, I prefer to conduct in-classroom quasi-experiments and incorporate some experimental techniques in the research design. I have received a grant from the National Science Centre (NCN) focused on exploring lexical learning via different types of writing tasks.
Aleksandra Janczarska
Aleksandra Janczarska graduated in Italian Studies at the Chair of Italian Studies of the University of Warsaw and is currently completing her PhD studies at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics. She teaches Italian language at the Institute of Specialized and Intercultural Communication of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics (IKSI). In her doctoral studies, she investigates the Resistance movement in Piedmont and its role in women’s emancipation in the history of Italy. Moreover, one of her main interests is creative and efficient teaching of Italian language and culture.
Karolina Mieszkowska
I obtained my MA at the English Studies at the Faculty of Modern Languages (University of Warsaw), and PhD in Social Sciences at the Faculty of Psychology (University of Warsaw). My research is focused on language development in bilingual children, in particular, their vocabulary development, but I am also involved in research on narrative skills of bilingual children. Currently, I am part of the MultiLADA research group at the Faculty of Psychology (UW) as a post-doc in one of the projects, but I also maintain close collaboration with the Experimental Linguistics Lab at the Faculty of Modern Languages (UW).
Marcin Opacki
I am a linguist and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw. My research interests are founded upon three pillars: theoretical linguistics (syntax and syntactic formalisms), natural language processing (corpus linguistics), and psycholinguistics (grammaticality judgements, cross-linguistic influence, bilingualism, and SLA). One can say that I am mainly interested in how linguistic knowledge and linguistic information can be represented through the use of descriptive grammars. I consider empirical research a crucial proving ground for linguistic theories.
To me, experimental linguistics serves as a much needed bridge between the empirical and the rational. Some questions that define my academic exploits include: How to define grammaticality? What factors contribute to the perception of grammaticality, well-formedness, and acceptability? To what extent are they related to cross-linguistic influence and prior language knowledge? How can we operationalize the abstract structures of natural language for the purpose of linguistic research? How do different methods of operationalization influence construct validity?
Throughout my career, I have been involved in several projects funded by a variety of agencies and consortia. These included work on the Walenty: the Polish Valency Dictionary (CESAR, NEXT, CLARIN-ERIC), a study of the language of bilingual migrant children (NPRH), the development of a framework for CLIL in vocational education and training (Erasmus+), an evaluation of language teaching in Polish primary schools (BENJA), the development of a staff training program in computational linguistics for academics (NCBiR), and the development of a CLIL-based program that fosters critical thinking aimed at Polish high school students (NCBiR).
Małgorzata Foryś-Nogala
Małgorzata Foryś-Nogala is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. She obtained her PhD at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw. Her research interests focus on cross-linguistic influences in L2 and L3 acquisition, including: implicit and explicit learning of grammar, vocabulary acquisition, individual differences in language learning aptitude. She is also interested in various topics in educational psychology, including affectivity. Currently, she is a co-investigator in the project on cross-linguistic similarity in acquiring L3 vocabulary (National Science Centre, No. 2019/35/B/HS2/02236) and leads her own project on miniature language learning in adulthood (National Science Centre, No. 2020/04/X/HS6/01277)
Katarzyna Kutyłowska
I am a PhD student at the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw. My research interests center around two topics: SLA-oriented FL writing research, and language teacher beliefs and teacher education. In particular, I focus on foreign language teacher cognition with reference to the pedagogical practices in teaching writing. I am interested in conducting classroom-based research, yielding practical pedagogical implications.
Agata Ambroziak
I am a PhD student at the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw. My research interests revolve around bilingualism and multilingualism. My PhD project is devoted to the crosslinguistic influences in third language acquisition. I am particularly interested in investigating how the knowledge of native and foreign languages influences the acquisition of subsequent languages.
Past team members and PhD students
Ewa Zajbt
Dariusz Zembrzuski
Marek Krzemiński
Weronika Kobosko
Nikita Kudin
Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic
I am an associate professor at the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw and I specialise in applied linguistics and language education. My research interests focus on child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism. I am especially interested in cross-linguistic influences in language acquisition and use, and the role of cross-linguistic similarity in learning words in a foreign language. Since 2014, I have received several grants from the national funding agencies (NPRH, NCN), which allowed me to establish a new research team specialising in language acquisition research.
Olga Broniś
I am an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. My research is focused on the synchronic analysis of standard Italian. In particular, I am interested in phonetic and phonological adaptation of foreign words borrowed into Italian, and in other phonological issues related to cross-linguistic similarities and differences. I also take part in a team investigation on multilingualism and cross-linguistic influences in the acquisition of Italian as L3, supervised by prof. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic.