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

Link to publications

ORCID

Interests:

language, literature, mathematics, outdoor activities (long-distance running, sailing)