Jaroslaw Krajka

• Head of Department at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Awareness of successful strategies used by learners in their path to L2 and L3 proficiency, both inside the classroom and on their own outside it, helps understand how multilingualism can be achieved. Successful use of strategies may compensate for the lack in education or insufficient exposure to one of the languages in family contexts. The chapte...

Contemporary language education to young learners is seeing an increased focus on individual variation, due to students’ special educational needs and the diversity of contexts in which instruction takes place. This leads to the increased creativity of teachers and the emergence of innovative practices in various areas of teaching languages to chil...

Introduction: The contemporary world demands that employees in different work contexts do not only possessthe necessary professional knowledge and skills but also exhibit a necessary level of intercultural communicative competence that enables them to interact successfully with multilingual and multicultural clients, peers and students. While unive...

Customs administration always played a highly significant role for the Russian Empire since it controlled revenue collected from the Western land border of the Empire. Most of all, it was crucial for the state budget. This is a sufficient reason to investigate customs administration and its local authorities – customs district chiefs. Until 1851 th...

This study was an inquiry to investigate English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers' transitional experiences in the third space. To that end, 17 ESP teachers wrote autobiographical narratives focusing on their critical challenges in the third space and their approaches to dealing with them. The narratives were analyzed using Creswell's (2007) pr...

The article studied the degree of stakeholders’ involvement in the design and development of learning outcomes (LOs) in Georgian universities. The purpose of the study was to find out whether all main stakeholders (administrators, lecturers, and students) are actually or only formally involved in the process and whether any special training could i...

During the two-year pandemic period all university education, including language teacher training, was conducted exclusively in the online mode. While for many instructional contexts transition to the online mode meant decreasing the effectiveness of instruction due to lack of physical contact and greater time consumption for materials development,...

This paper reports on a study conducted during the implementation of the Polish language and culture promotion project, run by Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. In this project, Polish students were involved in telecollaboration with Brazilians from the Ijui region. The aim of this s...

Recent challenges in education, caused by changes in the economy, society, health or even the pandemic force educators to seek innovative pedagogical practices, design new activities or reformulate existing standards in the classroom. Although such practice-oriented actions are creditable, more systematic and in-depth reflection is needed on how to...

The article analyzes the quality of civic education incorporated into the summer camps organized by the Kosciuszko Foundation. Are these English language camps an opportunity for young people to develop their knowledge of civics? Is interacting with American teachers and volunteers an opportunity to build positive civic attitudes? Individual interv...

The aim of this article is to analyze the issue of textual consistency in the context of mediation activities at B1 and B2 levels (in the context of French as Foreign Language). First, we look at the question of text coherence that we analyze from both linguistic and didactic perspectives because the latter draws a lot from the contributions of pra...

Technology has been called to the rescue on a number of occasions, be it in large classes, under-resourced contexts, after earthquakes or other natural disasters. The COVD-19 pandemic which struck the whole world in pring 2020 afterwards necessitated a sudden shift from face-to-face to distance teaching. With no preparation, no training and very li...

While teacher-as-methodology-researcher paradigm in the area of methodology is quite firmly established, teacher-as-language-researcher is less common, especially in teacher training programmes. Much less emphasis is placed on equipping teachers (especially non-natives) with skills of language analysis, hypothesis posing, data retrieval and analysi...

Language assessment has recently attracted a great deal of attention of both researchers and practitioners, which is evidenced, among other things, by a number of well-known monographs (Brown & Abeywickrama, 2010; Coombe et al., 2012; Gordon & Rajagopalan, 2016; Gottlieb, 2006; Komorowska, 2002; Tsagari & Banerjee, 2016, to name just a few), as wel...

The integration of technology in EAP courses is emphasized and recommended in previous research (Arno, 2012; Jarvis, 2009; Plastina, 2003). However, a closer look at the publications on CALL in recent years shows that only few studies have been directed towards the application of technology in EAP instruction. Research on ESP instruction and CALL i...

Abstract: Sheki-Zagatala tourist area in Azerbaijan is one of the unique geographical locations. Beautiful natural scenery of the area, plains and mountain forests and other attractive natural landscapes are ideal for recreation and tourism centers (Rustambekov, G.B., 2015). The Sheki-Zagatala economic district covers the administrative regions of...

In this study, we analyse the impact of dictionary use training in students who took their BA in foreign language teaching degree and are training to become teachers in the MA programme. A dual perception is tackled here: (1) Students as users of dictionaries in their degree studies, after getting some training in dictionary use (2.a) the same stud...

Effective use of dictionaries should be part of the language learning curriculum. Dictionary skills are relevant while learning languages in formal contexts, they are useful for students, and durable in time since they promote lifelong learning linguistic skills. (E-)dictionary skills are defined as "the abilities required on the part of the dictio...

Elektroniczna obecność w nauczaniu języka angielskiego jako międzynarodowego – wspomaganie procesu kształcenia nauczycieli zadaniami tele-współpracy Wobec wielu badań empirycznych i publikacji praktycznych poświęconych definiowaniu i rozwijaniu kompetencji interkulturowej i interkulturowej kompetencji komunikacyjnej uczniów, dużo mniej badań dotycz...

The acquisition of specialised language competence is of great interest for teachers and translators alike. Since many modern philology programmes do not make a clear-cut distinction between the two professions and provide English / German / Romance languages students with similar language preparation for future careers, it seems pertinent to consi...

Even though significant breakthroughs and research studies have been directed towards implementing computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching contexts, very little attention has been paid to other contexts relevant to EFL, including EAP instruction. Due to this research dearth, this special issue is a...

Objective: Assessment is a crucial part of language teaching, with great effect on learners’ motivation, willingness to study and learning success. Since language assessment is rooted in local policies and cultures of learning, it seems pertinent to look at how opinions on assessment can differ depending on the country of teacher training. The purp...

In the rapidly changing world of today, the role of English as a global language is not to be left unnoticed in pre-service teacher training. Teacher language awareness, encompassing knowledge of language, knowledge about language and knowledge of students, needs to be expanded with the wider sociocultural context in which language education takes...

Review by Prof., Dr. Jaroslaw Kajka (Poland) The volume contains a collection of articles presented during the second (2018) INTERC – International Young Researchers Conference. The conference was initiated as an event for master and doctorate students in the sphere of education, however, now it is intended at a wider spectrum of research done by...

Together with a growing interest in English for Specific Purposes (ESP), also English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as a separate branch of English for Language Teaching (ELT) is gaining more and more attention. While the provision of ready-made teaching resources is adequate in many branches of ESP, the EAP teacher frequently faces the challenge of...

The purpose of the present paper is to describe selected self-study learning environments focused on target language culture for university students. After reviewing introductory concepts of intercultural competence, the results of the external audit of a corpus of e-learning courses will be presented. Conclusions reached may pave the way for futur...

Using various forms of computer-assisted instruction in foreign language teacher and translator training has become an obvious fact. While fully distance programs are rather scarce, more and more projects adopt the blended learning approach mediated by different webbased tools. The purpose of the paper is to critically describe and analyse a myriad...

English+KIDS is a program which is very well done, appealing and engaging for its intended audience. There are few programs on the market for young learners, and definitely the high quality and linguistic appropriateness of this one makes it a really useful tool for teaching children. Furthermore, its low price ($10-$25) makes it readily affordable...

The volume discusses diverse aspects of teaching languages for specific and academic purposes on the example of English (ESP) and French (FOS): course design, tasks and skills, teaching resources and tools, assessment. The components of LSP instruction are discussed from the practical perspective and demonstrate a multi-faceted nature of the teachi...

The book brings together sociolinguistic, neurolinguistic, and educational perspectives on language acquisition and learning in the classroom and at home. First and second language acquisition studies, classroom research findings, Polish, European and international legislation, as well as statistical reports on foreign language learning and teachin...

This volume explores multiple dimensions of openness in ICT-enhanced education. The chapters, contributed by researchers and academic teachers, present a number of exemplary solutions in the area. They involve the use of open source software, innovative technologies, teaching/learning methods and techniques, as well as examine potential benefits fo...

Research results indicate that the ability to perform Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) in a telecollaborative mode is one of the sought-after qualities which translation agencies seek in prospective employees (Bondarenko, 2015). In response to that, a survey study, conducted on postgraduate student translators in an MA blended programme, explore...

The traditional EFL/ESL distinction as well as the adoption of RP, General British or American English as standards for language teaching have been recently questioned with a growing interest in multilingualism, spread of English and emergence of New Englishes. At the same time, practical skills of language teaching to international students in tra...

With language awareness already established as a key concept in language learner and teacher education, ways need to be found to foster language awareness of prospective teachers. It goes without saying that without teacher autonomy and control over the foreign language it is impossible to effectively develop learner autonomy. The present paper rep...

Integration of foreign language instruction and content learning has become the reality of a number of learning contexts. The phenomenon of content and language-integrated learning (CLIL) is becoming more and more widespread, though, at the same time, it finds its different realisations. However, there is still a need for language teaching material...

Integration of foreign language instruction and content learning has become the reality of a number of learning contexts. The phenomenon of content and language-integrated learning (CLIL) is becoming more and more widespread, though, at the same time, it finds its different realisations. However, there is still a need for language teaching material...

The main objective of the presented study was to propose a new taxonomy of learning strategies for the digital age. The revised taxonomy of Oxford’s SILL (1990) was implemented in a nationwide questionnaire to display the picture of strategy use, investigate relationships between particular strategy types and elicit learners’ preferences on strateg...

Learning teaching in cyberspace is becoming more and more widespread in the current teacher education framework, due to a growing need to enhance the quality of practical training and the presence of information and communication technologies in all spheres of life. Thus, e-training, defined here as supplementing teacher development with online int...

This paper presents a review of language teacher selection examination and recruitment in Turkey and Poland, together with the national assessments conducted to assess candidates entering the teaching profession such as Praxis I and II and the Teaching Knowledge Test. It further discusses KPSS (Selection Examination for Professional Posts in Public...

Acquiring vocabulary in L2 is rather a difficult and demanding process and most of the language learners wish to know which vocabulary learning method and/or activity is more beneficial or even the best one; however, the responses to this question vary and there is no clear-cut answer though there are some various suggestions and conclusions drawn...

This study inquires into whether prospective English language teachers consider the central exam, KPSS (The Selection Examination for Professional Posts in Public Organizations) valid to select and recruit English language teachers, and what suggesttions they have concerning the improvement of the exam. The fndings indicate that the majority of the...

This chapter contrasts the use of corpora and concordancing in the Web 1.0 era with the opportunities presented to the language teachers by the Web 2.0 stand-alone concordancing software, which make it much easier to access, compile, and consult the corpora that are more relevant for particular classroom contexts. It is argued here that once traine...

This chapter contrasts the use of corpora and concordancing in the Web 1.0 era with the opportunities presented to the language teachers by the Web 2.0 stand-alone concordancing software, which make it much easier to access, compile, and consult the corpora that are more relevant for particular classroom contexts. It is argued here that once traine...

The prevalence of computers, increased opportunities of Internet access, availability of large amounts of target language data, all of these call for language teachers' greater interest in the active use of corpora both for the classroom (in materials development) and in the classroom (for learner discovery tasks). Contrary to the pre-Internet era,...

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate the phenomenon of social media in language teaching. After a brief definition of social media, a general picture of conditions for Internet-based teaching and learning in Poland will be presented, based on the data collected by statistical offices and the present authors. The major part of the pape...