SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Professor Tadeusz Piotrowski (University of Wrocław) - Chairman
Professor Andrzej Łyda (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Professor Maciej Mackiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Professor Ewa Zajdler (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Małgorzata Rachwalska-Mitas, PhD (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice)
Chairman of the Scientific Committee
Professor Tadeusz Piotrowski - is affiliated with the University of Wroclaw - Institute of English Philology. He specializes in English linguistics, lexicography and translation. Author and editor of numerous dictionaries and scientific publications, among others he was the scientific editor of the Great English-Polish Dictionary, PWN-Oxford, Warsaw 2001.
Members of the Scientific Committee
Professor Andrzej Łyda - has been affiliated with the University of Silesia since 1981. Since 1986 he has been working at the Institute of English Language at the University of Silesia. For nearly 20 years he served there as deputy director and director. Professor Łyda's main areas of interest include semantics and pragmatics in combination with psycholinguistics, especially the problem of information processing in oral translation, issues of rhetorical structure of text and academic discourse. He has published more than 100 scientific papers. He has promoted more than a dozen PhDs in the humanities. Professor Łyda was a member of the Committee on Linguistics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as secretary of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics.
Professor Maciej Mackiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) - professor at the Institute of German Philology, Head of the Department of German Language Didactics and Intercultural Studies. Research interests: intercultural approach in foreign language didactics, motivation of German language learners, intercultural communication, modern tools for developing intercultural competence. Areas of teaching activity: intercultural communication, Polish-German communication in business, culture of the countries of the German language area, teaching German as a foreign language. Long-time head of the Foreign Language Studies at the Poznań School of Banking, lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, expert in didactic cooperation with the Goethe-Institut in Warsaw.
Professor Ewa Zajdler (the Jagiellonian University) is a sinologist-linguist, a graduate and long-time research and teaching staff member at the Department of Sinology at the University of Warsaw, and since 2014 at the newly established Sinology Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of Sinological linguistics: semantics, syntax, phonetics and phonology of Chinese, Chinese and Taiwanese language and culture, and glottodidactics. She conducts research on Chinese language acquisition, tonal language speech reception, Chinese language processing and teaching (CFL). She is interested in ethnolinguistics, primarily, languages in Taiwan.
Małgorzata Rachwalska-Mitas, PhD - Director of Foreign Languages Centre at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. She is a Germanist with PhD in Humanities (Computer Aided Language Learning - University of Szczecin), she has been a lecturer of German in the Foreign Languages Centre at the Silesian University of Technology for over 30 years. She has been the Head of the FLC of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice since September 2013. Her scientific achievements include 12 publications (in journals, scientific books, post-conference materials of the national conference "Pedagogy and Informatics" and scientific monographs).
