Anna Turula
Head of TELE Department
e-mail: anna.turula@up.krakow.pl
Office hours: Karmelicka 41/309; in Covid-19 distance education: online, Wed. 2pm or by appointment
An experienced CALL / EFL teacher and teacher trainer. Her research interests include: new technologies in language learning and teacher training; Online Intercultural Exchanges (telecollaboration; Task-Based and Cultura models) in language learning and teacher training; cognitive and affective factors in CALL; e-classroom dynamics. She is the proponent and organiser of the PL-CALL conference (2013, 2014, 2016, in Warsaw and Cracow).
Degrees:
- 1990 – MA in American Literature, University of Wrocław, Poland
- 2002 – PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- 2012 – D. Litt. (habilitation) in Applied Linguistics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Teaching experience (including b- and e-learning courses):
- CALL methodology
- theory of language learning and teaching, on- and offline
- ELT methodology
- new tendencies in language teaching
- BA and MA seminars
- pragmatic and cultural aspects of communication
- introduction to linguistics
- introduction to semantics
- pedagogical grammar
- practical English
Professional organisations:
- EuroCALL (national contact for Poland)
- UniCollaboration.org
- member of the Association of Academic E-learning (SEA)
Scholarships / grants:
- 2006 – Norre Nissum Seminarium, Denmark
- 2012 – Universidad de Cadiz, Spain
- 2015 – Pädagogische Hochschule, Freiburg, Germany
- 2016 – University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain
- 2017 – Pädagogische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2017 – Malmö University, Sweden
- 2018 – Beit Berl College, Israel
Publications:
- author of four monographs: Language Anxiety and Classroom Dynamics. Bielsko-Biała: Wydawnictwo Naukowe ATH (published in 2006); Teaching English as a Foreign Language. From Theory to Practice and All the Way Back. Częstochowa: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Lingwistycznej (published in 2010); Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner. On the Importance of the Semantics of Grammar. Frankfurt: Peter Lang (published in 2011); E-learning akademicki. Perspektywa humanistyczna. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UP (2018)
- co-editor of five monographs: Studies in Cognitive Semantics. Częstochowa: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Lingwistycznej (2010); Syntax in Cognitive Grammar. Częstochowa: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Lingwistycznej (2011); Insights into Computer Enhanced Language Pedagogy. Frankfurt: Peter Lang (2015); CALL for Bridges between School and Academia. Frankfurt: Peter Lang (2015); Telecollaboration and virtual exchange across disciplines: in service of social inclusion and global citizenship. Research-Publishing (2019)
- Series editor of the Peter Lang Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning
- author of 50+ (40+ after PhD) articles on: cognition and affect in language learning (on- and offline); individual differences in ELT and CALL; form-focused instruction and the advanced language learner; new tendencies in ELT; new technologies in language learning and teacher training
Interests:
language, literature, mathematics, outdoor activities (long-distance running, sailing)