Our TEAM
Our Team at UW - More to Come :)
Dr Magdalena Walenta – founder & leader of EMERGE
I hold a Ph.D. in linguistics and work as an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, where I teach courses on EFL didactics, bilingualism, and syntax. My Ph.D. dissertation received a Faculty Council distinction and was published as a monograph, Form-Function Mapping in Content-Based Language Teaching (Springer International, 2019). I have published on bilingualism, processing instruction, and the intersection of linguistic theories and classroom practice. My recent research focuses on EME at the tertiary level. I also hold an M.Arch. in architecture (with honors) and worked as an architect for ten years in Poland and the USA. Straddling both fields, I am also an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, where I teach content-based language courses, train academics in EME didactics, and coordinate EME programs.
m.walenta@uw.edu.pl
Prof. ucz. dr hab. Joanna Nijakowska
Joanna Nijakowska is a university professor at the Centre for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education, University of Warsaw. Her research and publications focus on foreign language teacher training and professional development, language didactics, accessible and inclusive foreign language classroom practices, special educational needs, and specific learning difficulties. She initiated and coordinated international projects devoted to foreign language teacher professional development, including the award-winning (European Language Label, Success Story, ELTons) DysTEFL project and more recently the SCALED - Supporting Content and Language Learning Across Diversity project.
Dr Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković
Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies (Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw), where she teaches courses related to teaching languages to students with special educational needs and law. She is the founder and coordinator of the faculty research group Neurodiversity in Language Education. Before joining the academia in 2018, she worked as a foreign/second language teacher and special needs teacher in Croatia, Poland, and the UK. She is a certified assessor for specific learning difficulties in the English language (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations Level 5 and 7 Diploma in Assessing and Teaching Learners with Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties, UK). Apart from a degree in applied linguistics (PhD in foreign language education and applied linguistics, University of Zagreb, Croatia), she holds an LLB (BPP Law School, London, UK) and an MA in international relations (University of Warsaw).
Dr hab. Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska
I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, the University of Warsaw. My academic interests lie at the intersection of second language acquisition and corpus linguistics, with a focus on lexis and phraseology. I am also interested in the applications of corpora for language assessment. I frequently use learner corpora in my research. My latest monograph, Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency, was published by Routledge in 2021. Another area of my expertise is data-driven learning, specifically the use of corpora for teaching and learning foreign languages.
Dr Karolina Czopek
I am a linguist and anthropologist with a PhD in Linguistics. I have taught courses on research methods and academic skills and have worked on research projects focused on social networks (NCN) and accessibility (4EU+). My own research projects have explored language acquisition in older age, emotions in language learning, and individual differences in learning processes.
Mgr Miłosz Marcjanik, PhD Candidate
I am a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, the University of Warsaw. My academic interests lie in sociolinguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, and World Englishes. My PhD research project focuses on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Polish higher education. To develop a broader discourse on language policy and education in multilingual contexts, I explore the dynamics and challenges of implementing EMI, aiming to understand how this approach impacts both students and lecturers.
Marcel Sekuła, MA candidate
I am an MA student at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. My academic interests lie in TEFL, especially in the subject of learner autonomy. I am also an associate editor of Folio, one of the Institute's journals, where I am responsible for reviewing essays on literature.
mt.sekula@student.uw.edu.plOur Friends and Partners - More to Come :)
Dr. Zuzanna Fuchs
Dr. Zuzanna Fuchs is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California and the Director of the Psycholinguistics of Mono- and Multilingualism Lab (PoMMLab). Dr. Fuchs primarily uses eye-tracking to investigate bilingual language processing, with a focus on how abstract grammatical features such as grammatical gender are processed in real time. Her work in this domain has been published in journals such as Bilingualism: Language & Cognition; Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism; and Heritage Language Journal. Dr. Fuchs currently serves as an Associate Editor for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
zfuchs@usc.edu
Prof. Masatoshi Sato
Masatoshi Sato is a Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. His overarching research goal is to produce theoretical and applied research that contributes to facilitating a dialogue between practitioners and researchers. In addition to his publications in international journals and co-edited volumes, he co-authored 2024 textbook with Shawn Loewen from Cambridge University Press, entitled A Practical Guide to Second Language Teaching and Learning, which received the PROSE Award this year. He is also a recipient of the ACTFL/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award. He is the Co-Director of TESOLgraphics, whose objective is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to collaborate, as well as Montreal Institute of Second Language Acquisition, whose objective is to foster collaboration regardless of researchers’ theoretical and methodological paradigms. He is currently the Editor of Language Awareness.
masatoshi.sato@unab.clProf. Dr. Tanja Angelovska
Tanja Angelovska is a Full Professor and Chair of "Research on foreign language learning and teaching" at the Institute for English/American Studies at the University of Kassel in Germany. Her research areas include psycholinguistics and L2/L3 acquisition and teaching. She is an associate editor of Ampersand: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Sciences and Bilingualism (Elsevier) and has published research in several journals, including Applied Linguistics Review; International Journal of Bilingualism; International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching; Instructed Second Language Acquisition; Languages; Language Awareness; Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, among others. She is co-author of Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Introduction to Real World Applications (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor of L3 Syntactic Transfer (Benjamins, 2017).
angelovska@uni-kassel.deProf. Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe
Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe is Full Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars at UPV/EHU, as well as at various national and international universities. Her main areas of expertise include second and third language (L2 and L3) acquisition, multilingualism, and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
yolanda.ruizdezarobe@ehu.eus
Dr. Tom Morton
Tom Morton is honorary lecturer in the Department of English Philology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), where he is a member of the UAM-CLIL research group. His research focuses on classroom interaction and teacher knowledge, identity and professional development in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and English Medium Instruction (EMI) contexts. He co-authored (with Ana Llinares and Rachel Whittaker) The Roles of Language in CLIL (2012, Cambridge University Press), and (with John Gray) Social Interaction and English Language Teacher Identity (2018, Edinburgh University Press). He co-edited (with Ana Llinares) Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL (2017, John Benjamins). He is co-founder of the journal Classroom Discourse. His recent research combines sociological and discourse analytic frameworks to explore knowledge building in teaching, assessment and professional development in CLIL and EMI contexts and has been published in journals such as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Language Awareness, Language and Education and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.
tom.morton@uam.es
Dr Małgorzata Foryś-Nogala
Dr. Małgorzata Foryś-Nogala is an assistant professor in psychology at the School of Human Sciences, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. Her research interests encompass individual differences in L2 and L3 acquisition, cross-linguistic influences in L3 learning as well as content-based language instruction in tertiary education.
m.forys-nogala@vizja.pl
Prof. Víctor Pavón-Vázquez
Víctor Pavón-Vázquez is Full Professor at the University of Córdoba (Spain). He is a member of the Committee for Language Accreditation within the CRUE (the national association of Rectors of Spanish Universities), current Director General of Language Policy and Director of the UCOidiomas language centre at the UCO. As an author, researcher and lecturer, he is active in education development programmes in Europe and beyond related to bilingual education in general. His current interests focus on research and development for capacity building of university staff to support the implementation of EMI/EME programmes, and on the delineation of language policies in an international context.
victor.pavon@uco.es
Dr. Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo
Dr. Mahboubeh (Maha) Rakhshandehroo is a lecturer at the Center for Multilingual Education (CME), Osaka University, Japan. Her research interests include ICLHE support in HE, English native speakerism, multiculturalism, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), and sustainable internationalization. Selected publications include "International Student Satisfaction at English-medium Graduate Programs in Japan" (Higher Education, 2020); and "Creating Inclusive Internationalization Spaces in EMI Classrooms through COIL" (The Proceedings of the WES–CIHE Summer Institute, 2021).
Dr Laura Di Ferrante
Laura Di Ferrante is an Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Milan. Editor in chief of E–JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, her education background and work experience have been carried out both in Italy and the United States and she actively collaborates with research teams in both countries. Her main research interests focus on workplace and media discourse, language teaching, science dissemination.
Julie Walaszczyk, M.A.
Julie works as an ICLHE Advisor and e-Learning Educational Developer for the Language and Internationalisation Unit (Faculty of Translation and Interpretation) at the University of Mons in Belgium. Since 2015 she has been supporting and facilitating evidence-informed teaching practices and approaches in EME courses for senior faculty professors, lecturers and teaching assistants across all academic disciplines. She has been actively involved in course (re)design of English-taught programmes at the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, Architecture, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Science and Engineering. Her current fields of interest include teacher training and CPD in ICLHE, internationalisation of the curriculum and horizontal internationalisation, inclusion and diversity in HE, multilingualism, technology in the classroom and innovative ICLHE teaching practices and assessment methods.
Prof. Heath Rose
University of Oxford, Department of Education
Prof. Branka Drljača Margić
University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
bdrljaca@ffri.uniri.hrDr. Beatrice Zuaro
Københavns Universitet, Center for Internationalisering og Parallelsproglighed
bzu@hum.ku.dk
Dr Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu
Dr Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu is an applied linguist with a multidisciplinary background in languages, literatures and cultures. She has taught and supervised at Hungarian and British universities at under- and postgraduate level in the broad disciplinary areas of English language and linguistics, English, American and postcolonial literature, English teacher training and education and various areas of applied linguistics. She also taught Russian to students specialising in Russian language and literature and Hungarian to speakers of other languages. As Head of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for a pathway organisation, she managed the delivery of EAP programmes and supported teachers across sixteen countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe. For the past seven years, she has been an external examiner in EAP at UK and overseas universities.
kekm1@leicester.ac.ukDr inż. Paweł Przybysz
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
pawel.przybysz@pw.edu.plDr inż. arch. Anna Nowak
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
Chaïma SEDDIKI, Ph.D. Arch.
Université de Mons, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning