prof. UAM dr hab.Anna Ewert

Anna Ewert
University professor

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 1986
  • Ph.D. in English, Poznań, 1998
  • D.Litt. in linguistics, Poznań, 2010

Research interests

  • Bilingualism
  • Second language acquisition
  • Multicompetence
  • Bilingual cognition
  • Linguistic relativity
  • Perception and encoding of motion
  • Executive processing in bilinguals
  • Memory systems
  • Speech perception

Research projects

Teaching experience

  • Bilingualism
  • Second language acquisition
  • Neurological and cognitive foundations of language
  • L1 and L2 acquisition in childhood
  • TEFL methodology
  • TEFL methodology to young children
  • TEFL at academic level
  • Translation
  • Pedagogical grammar of English
  • English pronunciation
  • History of English

Other professional experience

  • 1991-1992 supervisor of Teacher Training College, Pedagogical University, Słupsk
  • 1992-1993 consultant for Teacher Training College, Pedagogical University, Słupsk
  • 1992-1994 coordinator of TEFL to students of Russian and English, School of Russian, Adam Mickiewicz University
  • 1994-1999 coordinator of English Studies for students of Russian and English, School of Russian, Adam Mickiewicz University
  • 2001-2002 head of in-service teacher training programme at College of Foreign Languages (WSJO), Poznań
  • 1999-2012 head of English Centre, School of Russian, Adam Mickiewicz University
  • 2011-2013, 2013-2015 member of Executive Committee of European Second Language Association

Professional organizations

Scholarship

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, 1995

Guest lectures

  • Teacher Training College, Kalisz, 14 October 2010
  • University of Essex, Colchester, 28 February 2012
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 8 November 2012
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 21 February 2014

Editorial

  • Member of editorial board, Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2014-

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 1st IATEFL Poland Conference, Karniewice, 1992
  • 27th International IATEFL Conference, Swansea, 1993
  • 2nd IATEFL Poland Conference, Kraków, 1993
  • 3rd IATEFL Poland Conference, Kielce, 1994
  • 9th International Conference on Foreign and Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 1996
  • 30th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 1997
  • 4th LATEUM Conference, Moscow, 1997
  • Ogólnopolska Konferencja nt. Nauczania Dzieci Języków Obcych, Katowice, 2000
  • Language Transfer and Language Contact. 16th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 2003
  • 13th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE), Poznań, 2004
  • 7th Congress of International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics, Cieszyn, 2004
  • Foreign Language Learning in the Age of European Integration: Tendencies, Problems, Goals. Annual Conference of Modern Language Association of Poland, Poznań, 2004
  • 17th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 2005
  • Annual Conference of Modern Language Association of Poland (PTN), Lublin, 12-14 Sept. 2005
  • Język trzeciego tysiąclecia IV, Kraków, 9-11 March 2006
  • New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics. 3rd Łódź Symposium, Łódź, 11-14 May 2006
  • 18th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 18-20 May 2006
  • 9th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, Joensuu, 10-11 August 2006
  • Annual Conference of Modern Language Association of Poland (PTN), Kraków, 11-13 Sept. 2006
  • Communicating across age groups: Age, language and society. GlobE 2006. Warsaw, 21-23 Sept. 2006
  • 19th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition,
    Szczyrk, 17-19 May 2007
  • 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, 30 May-2 June 2007
  • 17th European Second Language Accosiation Conference (EUROSLA 17).
    Newcastle, 11-14 September 2007
  • 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 13-16 September 2007
  • 33rd International LAUD Symposium, Landau/Pfalz, 10-13 March 2008.
  • 20th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 15-17 May 2008.
  • AILA 2008, The 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Essen, 24-29 August 2008.
  • EUROSLA 18, Aix en Provence, 10-13 September 2008.
  • 39th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 11-14 September 2008.
  • Georgetown University Round Table, Washington, DC, 13-15 March 2009.
  • 21st International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 28-30 May 2009.
  • 2nd Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC-2009), Stockholm, 10-12 June 2009.
  • EUROSLA 19, Cork, 2-5 September 2009.
  • 19th PASE Conference, Kalisz, 19-21 April 2010.
  • 22nd International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 27-29 May 2010.
  • EUROSLA 20, Reggio Emilia, 1-4 September 2010.
  • 23rd International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 26-28 May 2011.
  • EUROSLA 21, Stockholm, 7-10 September 2011.
  • American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 24-27 March 2012.
  • 35th International LAUD Symposium, Landau/Pfalz, 26-29 March 2012.
  • EUROSLA 22, Poznań, 5-8 September 2012.
  • 25th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 23-25 May 2013.
  • Embodiment, Cognition and Language, Słubice/Frankfurt am Oder, 7-9 November 2013.
  • 26th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 22-24 May 2014.
  • EUROSLA 24, York, Wielka Brytania, 3-6 September 2014.
  • Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Events and Narrative TEPEN, Łódź, 9-10 December 2015.

Conference organizer

  • "Linguistic processing in bi- and multilinguals". Co-convenor (with Anna Cieślicka) of workshop session at the 39th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 11-14 September 2008.
  • EUROSLA22, 6-8 September 2012, chair of the organizing committee

Honours

  • Award of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for excellence in teaching, 1998