dr hab. Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska
Position: Associate Professor- Department: Second Language Studies
- Room: 2.002
- Telefon: +48 22 5526047
- E-mail: a.lenko(at)uw.edu.pl
- Duty hours: Tuesdays 1 – 3 p.m. Wednesdays 12 – 1 p.m.
(except weeks with Institute Council or Faculty Council meetings)
Degrees:
- M.A. in English philology, University of Łódź, (1993)
- Ph.D. in English linguistics, University of Łódź, (1997)
Research interests:
- second language acquisition
- foreign language pedagogy
- corpus linguistics
Teaching experience:
Courses taught at the University of Łódź and University of Warsaw:
- M.A. seminar on Lexical Issues in Psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition
- Special Subject Seminar in Second Language Acquisition
- Monograph Lecture in Psycholinguistics
- Proseminar on Computer Assisted Language Learning
- Teacher training courses
- Corpus linguistics
- Practical English (writing, phonetics, vocabulary)
- Second Language Acquisition, Learner Corpora – courses taught within the joint Łódź-Lancaster M.A. programme (COBAL – Computer-based English Language Studies) for extra-mural students
- Computer in foreign language teaching – courses taught within a post-graduate programme for foreign language teachers INSETT
Professional experience:
- computer technician at the Department of English Language, University of Łódź (1991-1993)
- assistant professor at the Department of English Language, University of Łódź (1997-2004)
- member of the PELCRA (Polish-English Corpora for Research and Applications) research group at the Department of English Language, University of Łódź (1997-2004)
- head of the TEFL Unit at the Department of English Language, University of Łódź (1998-2004)
- assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (2004 – )
- co-ordinator of the teaching practice at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (2004-2006)
Organising experience:
- co-ordinator of a TEMPUS project at the Department of English Language, University of Łódź, 1994
- secretary of an international conference 2nd International Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning organised by the Department of English Language, University of Łódź in Septemeber 1995
- secretary of an international conference I Kongres Neofilologiczny organised by the Department of English Language, University of Łódź in November 1998
Scholarships/research grants/fellowships:
- scholarship at University of Missouri in St. Louis, U.S. 1990-1991)
- two visits at Katholieke Vlaamse Hogeschool (School for Translators and Interpreters) in Anwerp, Belgium, on a TEMPUS scholarship, 1992 (Feb., Oct.)
- visit at Universite des Sciences Humaines in Stasburg, France, on a TEMPUS scholarship, 1993 (Jan.-March)
- research visit at the University of Antwerp on a TEMPUS scholarship 1995 (June)
- research visit at Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Wales in Swansea, on a TEMPUS scholarship, 1996 (Feb.-April)
- research visit at Universidad Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1999 (October)
- research visit at the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, (Batory Foundation grant) 2002 (Oct.-Dec.)
- research visit st School of Humanities, Vaxjo University, Vaxjo, Sweden (2003 January)
Guest lectures:
- language corpora – seminar at Sao Paulo University, Brazil, October 1999
- seminar on corpus linguistics – Lancaster University, U.K., October-December 2002
- learner corpora, corpora in language teaching, seminars taught at International Humanities School of Central and Eastern Europe organised by University of Warsaw, January 2003
- various teacher training sessions organised by International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, language schools and publishers
Papers read at international conferences:
- Lexicon, Universitat Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany (1993)
- 2nd International Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Hogeschool Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1995)
- 2nd International Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (1995)
- annual conference IATEFL, Keele, Stoke-on-Trant, Great Britain (1996)
- annual conference IATEFL Poland, Poznań, Poland (1996)
- annual conference IATEFL, Brighton, Great Britain (1997)
- Practical Applications of Language Corpora, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (1997)
- Poznań Linguistic Meetings, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (1997)
- Second and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of Silesia, Szczyrk, Poland (1997)
- I Kongres Neofilologiczny, Łódź, Poland (1998)
- Practical Applications of Language Corpora, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (1999)
- Teaching and Language Corpora, Graz, Austria (2000)
- annual conference EUROSLA, Kraków, Poland (2000)
- Practical Applications of Language Corpora, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (2000)
- 6th TELRI Seminar Corpora in Multilingual Research, Bansko, Bulgary (2001)
- International Conference on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition, Leiden, The Netherlands (2002)
- Interantional Conference on Pragmatics, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (2002)
- Second and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of Silesia, Szczyrk, Poland (2002)
- Interantional Conference Research and Scholarship in Integration Process, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (2002)
- Teaching and Language Corpora, Bertinoro, Italy (2002)
- pre-conference seminar Learner Corpora, Lancaster, Great Britain (2003)
- Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster, Great Britain (2003)
- Practical Applications of Language Corpora, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (2003)
- Teaching and Language Corpora, Granada, Spain
- 7th Congress of Psycholinguistics, Cieszyn, Poland (2004)
- Practical Applications of Language Corpora, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (2005)
- annual conference EUROSLA, Dubrownik, Croatia (2006)
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