drAgnieszka Lijewska

Agnieszka Lijewska
Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Websites / Profiles

Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 2003
  • Ph.D. in English, Poznań, 2007

Research interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second and third language acquisition
  • Multilingual lexical representation and processing
  • Analysis of eye movements
  • Audio-visual integration
  • Bilingualism and multilingualism

Research projects

  • Research grant number UMO-2012/07/B/HS6/00487 for the project "Cognate processing and the structure of the mental lexicon in multilingual speakers - a study of reaction times to visual stimuli and an analysis of eye movements in reading.” (project manager). Source of funding: National Science Centre
  • UMO-2013/11/B/HS2/02762 research grant funded by the National Science Centre (2014-2017) - Respeaking - the process, competences and quality. Principal Investigator: Dr Agnieszka Szarkowska (University of Warsaw)
  • UMO-2013/11/B/HS6/01539 research grant funded by the National Science Centre (2014-2016) - Working memory and lexical processing in conference interpreting. Principal Investigator: Dr. Agnieszka Chmiel

Teaching experience

  • TEFL at University level (grammar, phonetics)
  • Methodology of TEFL
  • English as a second/foreign language
  • Polish-English contrastive grammar
  • Bilingualism and multilingualism
  • Eye-tracking as a research tool
  • Language processing
  • Research methods

Professional experience

  • TESL consultant in private language schools in Poznań, Poland, 2002-2007

Professional organizations

  • International Association of Multilingualism
  • Eye Movement Researchers' Association (the Auditor of EMRA)
  • Societas Linguistica Europea

Scholarships

  • University of Vienna, 2006

Study visits

  • The Humanities Lab, Lund University, Sweden, February 2013
  • The Humanities Lab, Lund University, Sweden, August 2013
  • Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2013
  • McGill Language & Multilingualism Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (22 September - 24 October 2014)
  • Department of Psychology; State University of New York at Binghamton, NY (5-12 December 2015)

Visiting researcher

  • Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany - 8-28 January 2017

Peer reviewer for

  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • International Journal of Multilingualism
  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  • Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
  • Psychology of Language and Communication
  • Questions and Answers in Linguistics (QAL)
  • Second Language Research
  • Translation, Cognition & Behaviour

Guest talks

  • Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Psychology of Language and Bilingualism Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland (16 December 2013)
  • McGill Language & Multilingualism Laboratory, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (20 October 2014)
  • Department of Psychology; State University of New York at Binghamton, NY
    (7th December 2015)
  • „200UW/40WLS: Lingwistyka stosowana” – International conference celebrating the 40th Anniversary of ILS, UW, A panel of experts – Applied Linguistics and the new technologies - 3 March 2016
  • Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland (a series of talks, 3-6 June 2018)
  • Institute of English Studies, Warsaw University, Poland (27 November 2019)

Specialized training

  • Basics of e-learning, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, September 2012
  • LETA – Lund Eye-Tracking Academy, Lund University, February 2013
  • Analyses of Eye Movements with Linear Mixed Models using R, Lund University, August 2013
  • Pupillometry and Cognitive Processing, Lund University, August 2013
  • Social media and web 2.0 tools for presenting research results – SKILLS training (Foundation for Polish Science, Warsaw 16-17 July 2014)
  • Advanced methods in statistics, Poznań, May-July 2015
  • Scientific writing skills (advanced level) – SKILLS training (Foundation for Polish Science, Poznań, 11-12 September 2015)
  • Advanced methods in statistics – Linear Mixed Models, Poznań, 12-13 February 2016
  • The Second Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, Potsdam, 10-14 September 2018
  • The Third Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology – Advanced frequentist methods, Potsdam, 9-13 September 2019
  • EEG training workshop on "The Biosemi Active Two system in neurocognitive research," Neurostimulus, Poznań, Poland, 25-26 August 2021

Honours

  • Rector's research merit award - 2019

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

  • 13th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE), Poznań, Poland, 2004
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne, Lublin, Poland, 2005
  • XVIII International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, Poland, 2006
  • The 22nd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Aalborg, Denmark, 2006
  • The Fifth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, Stirling, UK, 2007
  • 20th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, Poland, 2008
  • 39th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Gniezno, Poland, 2008
  • The Sixth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, Canada, 2008
  • The 6th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-6), Poznań, Poland, 2009
  • The Seventh International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, Warszawa, Poland, 2011
  • L3 workshop "Third Language (L3) Acquisition: a focus on cognitive approaches", Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 2012
  • EuroSLA22 - 22nd Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association, Poznań, 2012
  • Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Madrid, Spain, 2012
  • International Workshop on Bilingualism and Cognitive Control, Kraków, Poland, 2013 (poster)
  • 17th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Lund, Sweden, 2013 (poster)
  • 44th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland, 2013
  • II Polska Konferencja Eyetrackingowa, Warszawa, Poland, 2013
  • 26th International Conference on Foreign / Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, Poland, 22-24 May 2014
  • The 9th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-14 June 2014
  • Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, Tromso, Norway, 20-21 March 2015
  • III Polska Konferencja Eye-Trackingowa, Warsaw, Poland, 5-6 March 2015 (2 posters)
  • 27th International Conference on Foreign / Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, Poland, 21-23 May 2015 (2 papers)
  • 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 17-19 September 2015 (2 papers)
  • International Conference on Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics (ICEAL), Warsaw, 21-22 September 2015 (2 papers)
  • 8th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2016), Aarhus, 10–12 June 2016
  • PRIM Workshop on Sentence Processing in Multilingual and Other Less Commonly Studied Populations, Potsdam, 4-5 August 2016 (poster)
  • The 10th International Conference on Multilingualism and Third Language Acquisition, Vienna, 1-3 September 2016
  • Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, Poznań, 6-7 May 2017
  • Conference on Multilingualism (COM 2018), Ghent, 16-18 December 2018
  • 49th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 16-18 September 2019
  • Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2020 (held on-line), 22nd September 2020
  • 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 16-19 September 2021
  • 3rd International Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (ICTIC 3) 2-5 November 2021, Forli, Italy

Participation in international conferences and congresses

  • The Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 29 Sept-2 Oct 2014, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
  • The Attentive Listener in the Visual World - 3rd AttLis workshop, 10–11 March 2016, Potsdam, Germany
  • IV Polska Konferencja Eye-trackingowa - 7-8 April 2016, Warsaw Poland

Other talks and presentations

  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers' Night), Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 26 September 2014
  • XVII Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 9 April 2014
  • 111 Years of English Studies in Poznań, AMU, Poznań, 26-27 April 2014 (poster)
  • Noc Naukowców (Researchers' Night), Faculty of English, AMU, Poznań, 25 September 2015

Organiser of workshops and conferences

  • Eye-tracking as a tool in bilingualism research – an introduction (during Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań - YLMP, 6 April 2014)
  • Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, Poznań, 6-7 May 2017
  • Eyetracking interpreters and translators (MC2 LAB) University of Bologna, 10 June 2021
  • Eyetracking interpreters and translators (a satelite workshop of ICTIC 3) University of Bologna, 2 November 2021