Agata WOLANIN, PhD

Position:

• Assistant Professor.

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Council of the English Studies Institute, member,
• XP System in the English Studies Institute, coordinator,
• Practical English Course (year III), coordinator,
• Teaching Practice, tutor.

Degrees:

• 2019; Ph.D. in Linguistics;
  Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków;
  Thesis: “The dynamism of critical cultural awareness: An empirical project based on reflective tasks and English philology students’ journals”;
  Supervisor: dr hab. Maria Jodłowiec;
  Reviewer: dr hab. Grażyna Zarzycka, prof. UŁ, prof. dr hab. Andrzej Łyda (UŚ).

• 2015; M.A. in English;
  Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków;
  Thesis: “Raising critical cultural awareness: A case study of English teachers’ beliefs and practices in the Polish educational context”;
  Supervisor: dr Ewa Bandura

Main field of research:

• Linguistics.

Department:

• Department of English Language Education.

Research Interests”

• intercultural education,
• critical cultural awareness,
• education for citizenship,
• Critical Pedagogy,
• ecolinguistics.

Teaching:

• Practical English V & VI (Integrated Skills 1),
• MA seminar,
• Second Language Acquisition Theories,
• Intercultural communication.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• International Association for Intercultural Education (od 2018)

Selected visiting lectures:

• N/A

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• 2022; Wolanin, A. The complexity of critical cultural awareness in L2 education: from theory to practice. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UP. 2021; Za którymi górami, za czyimi lasami…? Rozbudzanie wrażliwości kulturowej dzieci za pomocą historyjek anglojęzycznych; Nauczanie języków obcych dzieci. Globalne wyzwania, lokalne rozwiązania.
• 2021; “Picture this!” – the educational value of illustrations in the process of teaching L2 to young learners; Facing diversity in child foreign language education (Springer).
• 2019; Looking closer at critical cultural awareness: Diagnosing and implementing the concept of critical cultural awareness in the EFL Context; New Perspectives in English and American Studies. Volume 2: Language.

Articles:

• Rokita-Jaśkow, J., Wolanin A., Król-Gierat W., Nosidlak K. 2022. Bridging the ‘dual lives’: school socialization of young bi/multilinguals in the eyes of EFL teachers, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2022.2114788 
• Wolanin, A. 2021. The evolution of L2 education and research: An overview of paradigm shifts in applied linguistics, Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 16, 211-223. 
• Wolanin, A. 2021. Za którymi górami, za czyimi lasami…? Rozbudzanie wrażliwości kulturowej dzieci za pomocą historyjek anglojęzycznych. In: Rokita-Jaśkow J., Nosidlak K. (eds.). Nauczanie języków obcych dzieci. Globalne wyzwania, lokalne rozwiązania, pp. 121-135. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego. 
• Wolanin, A. 2021. “Picture this!” – the educational value of illustrations in the process of teaching L2 to young learners. In: Rokita-Jaśkow J., Wolanin A. (eds.). Facing diversity in child foreign language education, pp. 201-213. Springer. 
• Cierpisz, A. 2019. Dismantling intercultural competence – a proposal for interpreting the concept of critical cultural awareness in an L2 teaching context, Neofilolog, 52(2), 227-243.