Piotr OKAS, MA

Position:

• Junior lecturer

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• N/A

Degrees:

• 1988; Master in English Studies;
  Jagiellonian University;
  Thesis: “Linguistic Theories of Sound Change”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Ruta Nagucka.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department:

• Department of English Linguistics

Research Interests:

• phonetics and phonology,
• language change,
• phonodidactics,
• language interference.

Teaching:

• Phonetics 1 & 2,
• History of the English Language,
• Remedial Pronunciation for Erasmus+ students.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• N/A

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2018;Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv (Israel),
• 2016; Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Cuenca (Spain),
• 2015; Istanbul Universitesi, Istanbul (Turkey),
• 2014; Orta Doğu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara (Turkey),
• 2013; Marmara Üniversitesi, Stambuł (Turcja),Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow (Russia),
• 2012; Aristoteleio Panemistimio Thessalonikis, Thessaloniki (Greece),Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife (Spain),
• 2011; Universidad Complutense de Madrid – CES Don Bosco, Madrid (Spain),
• 2010; Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Budapest, (Hungary) Panepistimo Kritis, Rethymnon, (Greece),
• 2009; Vilniaus Pedagoginis Universitetas, Vilnius (Lithuania) La Sapienza – Università di Roma, Rome (Italy),
• 2007; Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain).

Main Publications:

Articles:

• with Anita Buczek-Zawiła – “recenzja How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? : English pronunciation practice book”, A. Mańkowska, M. Kłoczowska, wydawnictwo Konsorcjum Akademickie, Kraków-Rzeszów-Zamość 2009 W: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Anglica. 2015, Z. 5, s. 139-143
• „Must learning L1 mean un-learning of L2?”, w Misztal, M. and Trawiński, M. (eds.) Current Issues In English Studies, Wydawnictwo UP Kraków, 2009, 125-132
• with Anita Buczek-Zawiła, „Second Language Interference: Does it Feed or Does it Bleed?”, w Ramos Gay, I; Moya Guijarro, A. J. and Albentoza Hernandez, J.I (eds.) New Trends in English Teacher Education (Linguistics, Literature & Culture), Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca; 2008, 137-148
• “Teaching English pronunciation to Polish students” W: Studies in Teacher Education: language, literature, and culture / ed. Mariusz Misztal, Mariusz Trawiński; Kraków : Wydaw. Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, 2005, S. 121-126
• „Język angielski : gramatyka szkolna” (with Mieczysław Lechowski, Mariusz Misztal); Warszawa : Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, 2001, s. 270.