Plenary speakers
Prof Larissa Aronin is an Associate Professor at the Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel and is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication Studies, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin since 2008.
Prof Aronin was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT, USA (2014) and a KIVA Guest Professor Technical Universität Darmstadt, Germany (2016).
Prof Aronin has published in a range of international journals on a wide array of topics connected with multilingualism such as The international Journal of the Sociology of Language, The International Journal of Multilingualism, Language Teaching. She is the co-author of Multilingualism (John Benjamins, 2012), contributed to The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics Wiley-Blackwell (2013) and co-edited The exploration of multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition (John Benjamins, 2009)and Current Multilingualism: The new Linguistic Dispensation (2013). She is an Advisory Board Member of Language Teaching (CUP) and an Editorial Board member of a number of journals: including Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland), International Journal of Multilingualism (Routledge), "Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition" published by the Silesian University Press; journal«Вестник Череповецкого государственного университета» Russia ; Scientific Committee member of Droit et Culture, revue internationale interdisciplinaire. She is a founding member of the International Association of Multilingualism.
Prof. nadzw. dr hab. Michał Kaczmarczyk – political scientist with wide-ranging academic interests (social communication, public administration, local government policy, problems related to contemporary education, public organization management, media systems). Rector of Humanitas University in Sosnowiec, an expert at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in 2012-2014, an expert at the Council of Rectors and Founders of Non-public Higher Education Institutions in the Silesian Province. Member of the Board of “Humanitas” Foundation conducting activities in the area of schooling and higher education. In 2004-2010 he worked as an academic employee at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Since 2009 he has been a director of the Institute of Zagłębie in Sosnowiec, and since 2006, an owner of a private training company specializing in the education-related problems (including in particular issues concerning the quality of schooling and education market). Member of the Committee for Legal and Economic Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences – the division in Katowice. Author of several academic publications. In 2009-2010 he performed the function of the editor-in-chief of the bi-annual magazine “Problems of Social Communication”. Scholarship Laureate for Outstanding Young Researchers of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2015), Scholarship Laureate of the Ministry of National Education and Sport (twice) and of the Silesian Province. Member of the Polish Association of Political Science and Polish Communication Association.
Piotr Mamet Dr hab. prof AJD Piotr Mamet is a researcher and teacher of
Languages for Specific Purposes, especially Business English. Before his
employment with Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa he is one of the founders and managers of the Business Language College, University of Silesia that operated in the period 1991 -2005. His scientific and teaching competence is combined the experience in international trade, including the Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, in the period 1985-1991. Prof. Piotr Mamet concentrates on discourse, genre and register analysis as well as the linguistics aspects of brand names. His latest publication is entitled Licence to Speak. The Language of James Bond (2014).
Languages for Specific Purposes, especially Business English. Before his
employment with Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa he is one of the founders and managers of the Business Language College, University of Silesia that operated in the period 1991 -2005. His scientific and teaching competence is combined the experience in international trade, including the Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, in the period 1985-1991. Prof. Piotr Mamet concentrates on discourse, genre and register analysis as well as the linguistics aspects of brand names. His latest publication is entitled Licence to Speak. The Language of James Bond (2014).
Mirosław Pawlak is Professor of English in the English Department, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland, and Department of Research on Language Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland. His main areas of interest are SLA theory and research, form-focused instruction, corrective feedback, pronunciation teaching, classroom discourse, learner autonomy, communication and learning strategies, grammar learning strategies, motivation and willingness to communicate. His recent publications include Error correction in the foreign language classroom. Reconsidering the issues (2015, Springer), Willingness to communicate in instructed second language acquisition: Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspective (with Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, 2017, Multilingual Matters), and several edited collections on learner autonomy, language policies of the Council of Europe, form-focused instruction, speaking in a foreign language, classroom-oriented research and individual learner differences. He is editor of the journals Studies in Second language Learning and Teaching and Konin Language Studies, as well as the book series Second Language Learning and Teaching, published by Springer.