Department of Applied English Linguistics and Language Teaching

The Department of Applied English Linguistics and Language Teaching investigates foreign language learning and teaching and bilingual language processing. Our specific research interests are as follows:

  • The roles of the teacher in the educational process, teacher competence and cognitions, and models of teacher training and professional development
  • The role of the native language in foreign language learning
  • Intercultural Communicative Competence from the perspective of EFL classroom, teaching materials and external impact
  • The influence of wellbeing on foreign language learning
  • Communication in the language classroom
  • Language and cognition, the expression of motion by second language users, the effect of the second language on the first, and cognitive consequences of bilingualism
  • Working memory and language aptitude

Head

University professor

Paweł Scheffler

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