mgrAnna Skałba

Anna Skałba
PhD Student (Doktorantka)
Starszy technik

  • Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, p. 003

Website profiles

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Nowy Sącz 2018
  • M.A. in English, Poznań 2020

Research interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism and multilingualism
  • Mental representation of syntax
  • Eye-tracking
  • Syntactic priming
  • Second and third language acquisition

Teaching experience

  • EFL at academic level
  • English grammar
  • Business English
  • Preparation for Cambridge exams

Research projects

  • Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism, National Science Centre, GRIEG 1, no. UMO-2019/34/H/HS2/00495 (Principal Investigator: prof. UAM dr hab. Magdalena Wrembel), PhD scholarship (2022-2023)
  • Stereotypically thinking: Neural correlates of stereotype processing in the native and non-native language, National Science Centre, OPUS 21, no. 2021/41/B/HS2/00249 (Principal Investigator: dr Katarzyna Jankowiak), Research assistant (2022)

Papers read at conferences and congresses

  • “Syntactic CLI in a longitudinal study on L3 Norwegian among L1 Polish – L2 English speakers” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski), Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, King’s College London, England, 22-23 October 2022
  • “Le (non)transfert des temps verbaux formellement équivalents chez des apprenants francophones d’anglais”, GeRoSLA – Acquisition L2 de catégories linguistiques et cognitives non équivalentes en langues romanes et germaniques: le transfert revisité, University of Salzburg, Austria, 29-30 September 2022
  • “Shared syntax in the multilingual mind: Evidence from language comprehension by Polish-English-French speakers”, 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 8-10 September 2022
  • “The role of TIME and CONDITION in syntactic CLI – a report on a longitudinal study” (S. Żychliński, A. Skałba, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski), 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 8-10 September 2022
  • “Gradient acceptability and language proficiency as factors in L3 acquisition of syntax” (S. Żychliński, M. Wrembel, K. Kaźmierski, A. Skałba), 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bucharest, Romania, 24-27 August 2022
  • “The organisation of grammatical tenses in the bilingual mind: English present perfect and French passé composé” [poster presentation], 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 16-19 September 2021
  • “Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind” [poster presentation], 7th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 23-25 April 2021
  • “The organisation of grammatical tenses in a bilingual mind: Predictions based on existing observational and experimental data”, The International Emerging Scholars Online Conference GLOBAL – LOCAL – GLOCAL in Anglophone Literature, Culture, and Linguistics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, 26-27 March 2021
  • “The representation of initial vowels: Is French similar to English or Polish?”, 13th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, 12-14 December 2019

Other talks and presentations

  • “Les processus sous-jacents à la production et à la compréhension du langage chez des personnes francophones apprenant l’anglais”, Séminaire Acquisition & Psycholinguistique, University of Paris 8, France, 5 December 2022
  • Invited speaker on the ”Bilingualism, Migration, and Identity” panel discussion of 1st EPICamp on ”Mobility, Migration, Multilingualism: Shaping European Identities and Languages in Past and Present”, University of Freiburg, Germany, 15-16 October 2021
  • “Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind”, WA GradTalks, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 28 May 2021
  • “Cross-language differences in hiatus resolution”, WA GradTalks meeting, 31 January 2020

Organisational work

  • Head of School of Languages and Literatures PhD Student Council, 2021-2022
  • Member of Faculty of English PhD Student Council, 2020-2021
  • Discussion moderator at Język w Poznaniu, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland,  23 October 2020
  • Student helper at History of English Language in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 23-24 November 2019
  • Student helper at 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 16-18 September 2019
  • Student helper at 6th Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 23-25 November 2018

Publications

  • Skałba, A. (2022). Que peut révéler la traduction de la représentation mentale des structures syntaxiques ? Le cas du passé composé et du present perfect. SHS Web of Conferences 138(3): 09009.
  • Skałba, A. (2021). Challenges in researching syntactic representations in the bilingual mind. In K. Jasiewicz & M. Zięba-Plebankiewicz (eds.), At the crossroads: Papers on language and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries (pp. 10–26). Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Nowym Sączu.
  • Skałba, A. (2019). The representation of French initial vowels within the Onset Promincence Framework. In K. Jasiewicz & M. Zięba-Plebankiewicz (eds.), Neophilologica Sandeciensia, 13 (pp. 50–60). Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Nowym Sączu.