mgrEwa Tomczak-Łukaszewska

Ewa Tomczak
Senior lecturer

Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link

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Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań, 2008
  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2010
  • M.A. in Psychology, Poznań, 2018 (Clinical Psychology)
  • Postgraduate degree in Management and Organisational Psychology, Poznań, 2018

Research interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism
  • Eye-tracking in Translation Studies
  • Eye-tracking in Reading Research
  • Translation Process Research
  • Language Processing in Translation
  • Figurative Language Processing
  • Visual Perception Strategies
  • Psychology of Procrastination
  • Sport Psychology
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Linguistic Relativity
  • Applied Statistics

Research projects

  • Reading and Reception of Mediated (translated) Text: The Read Me Project (2021-2025) financed by the National Science Centre (UMO – 2020/39/B/HS2/00697) – Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator – Prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt)
  • Effect of Directionality in the Translation Process – The EDiT Project financed by the National Science Centre (UMO – 2015/17/B/HS6/03944) – Statistical Analyst (2017-2019) (Principal Investigator – Prof. UAM dr hab. Bogusława Whyatt)
    The EDiT Project webpage: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/EDiT/index.html
  • Language and Cognition: The effects of the second language on the perception of voice attributes, conceptualization, lexicalization of motion events, and event construal financed by the National Science Centre (Grant N N104 380040) – Research Assistant (2011-2012) (Principal Investigator – Prof. UAM dr hab. Anna Ewert)

Teaching experience

  • TEFL at university level (Grammar, Communicative Practice, Integrated Skills)
  • Statistics in Scientific Research
  • Data Analysis and Visualisation
  • Introduction to Data Analysis
  • Study Design
  • Academically-Oriented English Practice (AOEP): Integrated Skills and Academic Discourse
  • Language Processing
  • Bilingualism and Multilingualism
  • General Business English (A1-C2)
  • English for Corporate Accounting
  • English for Banking and Finance
  • Introduction to Practical Translation

Professional organizations

  • European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), 2010-2014
  • Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC), 2013
  • International Association for Research and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), 2013-2014
  • Eye Movement Researchers' Association (EMRA), 2013-2014
  • Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association (PTJK), 2013-2014, 2017
  • European Society for Translation Studies (EST), 2023 until now

Scholarships

  • Santander Group Scholarship, University of California, Department of Psychology, Berkeley CA, USA, August–December 2009

Study visits

  • 2nd International Summer School on Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS ISS-2), Cartagena, Spain, 5–16 June 2023
  • Cognition & Language Laboratory (Department of Psychology), University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY Albany), 6–10 November 2023
  • Visual Cognition Laboratory (Department of Psychology), University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY Albany), 6–10 November 2023

Workshops

  • Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research 7 (EMLAR 7), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2–4 February 2011
  • Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5 (EMCL 5), Freiburg, Germany, 6–11 March 2011
  • PhD course organized by the NTNU PhD Programme in Linguistics and the Norwegian National PhD School in Linguistics & Philology, Trondheim, Norway, 19–22 September 2011
  • Leadership and Delegation, Poznań, 1–2 December 2017 (certified: March, 2018)
  • 2nd International Summer School on Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS ISS-2), Cartagena, Spain, 5–16 June 2023

Specialized training

  • Analysing Eye Movements Patterns in Space and Time, Lund University, Sweden, August 2013
  • Analyses of Eye Movements with Linear Mixed Models using R, Lund University, Sweden, August 2013
  • Python Open Source Tools in Eye Movement Research, Lund University, Sweden, August 2013
  • Recording and Analyzing Movements of the Two Eyes, What for?, Lund University, Sweden, August 2013
  • Viewing Commercials and Ads, Lund University, Sweden, August 2013
  • 4th International Sketch Engine Workshop (SKEW-4), Tallinn, Estonia, October 2013
  • Tworzenie zaawansowanych procedur eyetrackingowych z wykorzystaniem PsychoPy oraz Pythona, Warsaw, 2015
  • Wykorzystanie metody okulograficznej w badaniach marketingowych i UX stron internetowych, Warsaw, 2015
  • A Two-day Workshop on Analysing Eyetracking Data with R: regression models and mixed models, April 2015
  • Statistics with R - Lmm Workshop, June-July 2015
  • Wprowadzenie do analizy moderacji, Poznań, September 2015
  • Analiza krzywej p jako kontrola jakości metaanalizy, Poznań, September 2015
  • Niewłaściwe praktyki badawcze i krzywe p, Poznań, September 2015
  • Bootstraping praktycznie, Poznań, September 2015
  • Computational modelling in psycholinguistics (by Prof. Walter van Heuven), YLMP, Poznań, November 2016
  • Computational modelling in psycholinguistics (by Prof. Walter van Heuven), Poznań, June 2017
  • Bayesian ideology, Poznań, March 2018
  • Poznan 2018: Bayesian Workshop, March 2018
  • Laboratory for Sworn/Specialised Translators and Interpreters: consecutive interpreting, simultaneous interpreting, sight interpreting, and note-taking, The Polish Society of Sworn and Specialized Translators (TEPIS), Warsaw, June 2018
  • Specialized Training "Wprowadzenie do przekładu tekstów medycznych dla tłumaczy języka angielskiego", The Polish Society of Sworn and Specialized Translators (TEPIS), Wrocław, February 2019
  • EEG training workshop on "The Biosemi Active Two system in neurocognitive research," Neurostimulus, Poznań, Poland, 25–26 August 2021
  • Eye-tracking training workshop, SR Research, EYE-LANG – Eye-tracking Laboratory for Research in Language, Poznań, 23 May, 29 May, 4 June, 6 June 2024

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 1st Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań (YLMP), 2009
  • 2nd Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP), 2010
  • 20th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 20), Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2010
  • Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research 7 (EMLAR 7), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2011 (poster)
  • 23rd International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 2011
  • 21st Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 21), Stockholm, Sweden, 2011
  • American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2012
  • 35th International LAUD Symposium, Landau/Pfalz, Germany, 2012
  • 24th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 2012
  • 22nd Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 22), Poznań, Poland, 2012
  • Kongress der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL-Kongress), Erlangen, Germany, 2012
  • Linguistic Snapshots: Language and Cognition 2 (LiSLaC 2), Sosnowiec, 2013
  • 1st Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars (SMYS 1), Szczyrk, 2013
  • 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, Spain, 2013 (poster)
  • 4th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC 4), Joensuu, Finland, 2013
  • 23rd Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 23), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2013
  • 4th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP), 2014 (poster)
  • 1st International Conference on Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics, Warsaw, Poland, 2014
  • L2 Translation: Getting Out of the Grey Zone (with Bogusława Whyatt, Olga Witczak, Marcin Turski), Charles University, Prague, 2019
  • 28th International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language Conference (IATEFL Poland), Gdańsk, Poland, 2019 (two talks)
  • The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning (with Bogusława Whyatt and Olga Witczak), Łódź, Poland (virtual event), 2020
  • 3rd Consortium for Translation Education Research Congress (CTER Congress), Kraków, Poland (virtual event), 17–18 March, 2022
  • 31st International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language Conference (IATEFL Poland), Poznań, 16–18 September 2022 (two talks)
  • 10th European Society for Translation Studies Congress (EST Congress: Advancing Translation Studies), Oslo, Norway, 22–25 June 2022
  • 8th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP 2023), Poznań, Poland, 19–21 May 2023 (co-authored poster)
  • 2nd Meeting of the Bertinoro Translation Society, Cabo de Palos, Spain, 17–20 June 2023 (poster)
  • 2nd Meeting of the Bertinoro Translation Society, Cabo de Palos, Spain, 17–20 June 2023 (talk, with Bogusława Whyatt)
  • 52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań, 13–15 September 2023 (co-authored talk)
  • 3rd Meeting of the Bertinoro Translation Society, Bertinoro, Italy, 15–18 June 2024 (co-authored talk)
  • 22nd European Eye Movement Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 25-29 August 2024 (co-authored talk)
  • 3rd Meeting of the Bertinoro Translation Society, Bertinoro, Italy, 15–18 June 2024 (co-authored poster)
  • 21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznań, 8-14 September 2024 (co-authored talk)

Other talks and presentations

  • Psycholinguistics Reading Group, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 31 May 2011
  • Noc Naukowców - Researchers' Night (with D. Jaworska), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 27 September 2013
  • Psycholinguistics Reading Group, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 28 October 2013
  • XVII Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki (with D. Jaworska), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 9 April 2014
  • 111 Years of English Studies in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 26-27 April 2014 (poster)
  • Noc Naukowców - Researchers' Night (with D. Jaworska), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 25 September 2015
  • Noc Naukowców - Researchers' Night (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 29 September 2017
  • Invited lecture at English Language Competition "High Flyers in Krzesiny" (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), ZSO2, Poznań, 13 January 2018
  • Invited lecture at English Language Competition "High Flyers in Krzesiny" (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), ZSO2, Poznań, 1 December 2018
  • WA Friday Lunch Talks, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 7 December 2018
  • Noc Naukowców - Researchers' Night (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 27 September 2019
  • Invited lecture at English Language Competition "High Flyers in Krzesiny" (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), ZSO2, Poznań, 16 November 2019
  • Invited lecture at Meetings for Dialogue, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Centre for Foreign Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), Wrocław, 22 November 2019
  • Invited lecture at English Language Competition "High Flyers in Krzesiny" (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), ZSO2, Poznań, 11 April 2022
  • XXV Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2 June 2022
  • Noc Anglistów, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 25 November 2022
  • Invited lecture at English Language Competition "High Flyers in Krzesiny" (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), ZSO2, Poznań, 13 April 2023
  • Invited lecture at English Language Competition "High Flyers in Krzesiny" (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska), ZSO2, Poznań, 15 April 2024
  • Lecture for Visiting High School Students at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 24 April 2024
  • WA Lunch Talk, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 22 May 2024 (co-authored talk)
  • Lecture on bilingualism and eye-tracking for Kolorowy Uniwersytet UAM, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 5 December 2024

Organizer of international conferences

  • 22nd Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 22), Poznań, September 2012, conference secretary
  • 4th Researching and Applying Metaphor Seminar (RaAM Seminar 4): Metaphor, Metonymy and Emotions, Poznań, May 2013
  • Student Volunteer at the Method Workshops of the 17th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Lund, Sweden, August 2013
  • 4th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań (YLMP2014), Poznań, Poland, April 2014

Peer reviewer for:

Editorial:

  • Guest Editor (with D. Jaworska-Pasterska) of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, vol. 53(1), 2017 (Thematic Issue: Linguistic takes on the mind and brain: Cognitive, neuro- and psycholinguistic perspectives)

Grants and Awards

  • Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young researchers, 2023-2026
  • Prize of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for Excellence in Teaching, 2023
  • Award of the Head and Deputy Head of Adam Mickiewicz University Institute of Psychology for very good study results achieved throughout the degree programme in Psychology, 2018
  • Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation Scholarship for 2016/2017
  • Scholarship: 23rd Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 23), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2013
  • Travel Grant: 4th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC 4), Joensuu, Finland, June 2013
  • Award of the Head of the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University for the best M.A. thesis in linguistics, 2010

Publications