Artur ŚWIĄTEK

Position:

• Assistant professor,

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• member of the Chair of English Linguistics ,
• head of the organisation and planning courses for extramural MA studies,
• teacher and researcher.

Degrees:

• 2011; PhD. in English Linguistics;
  Silesian School of Economics and Languages in Katowice;
  Thesis: “The order of the acquisition of the English article system by Polish learners in different proficiency groups “/ “Kolejność przyswajania angielskiego przedimka przez polskich uczniów na różnych poziomach zaawansowania”;
  Supervisor: prof. zw. dr hab. Janusz Arabski;
  Reviewers: prof. dr hab. Rafał Molencki, prof. dr hab. Leszek Berezowski.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department

• Department of English Language Education

Research Interests:

• applied linguistics,
• general lingustics,
• psycholinguistics,
• the order of the acquisition of lexical and syntactic structures by L2 users,
• language acquisition,
• articles and other function words – meaning and use,
• cultural aspect in foreign language teaching,
• gender in language – gender studies,
• strategies applied in the comprehension of the text read,
• communication strategies applied by L2 users,
•  comparative L1 and L2 syntax,
• specialised translation (business English: marketing, technical, medical, legal English),
• sworn and certified translations,
•  consecutive and simultaneous interpreting,
• sight translation and chuchotage,
• AVT,
• interpreting,
• booth and conference interpreting,
• methodology of translation research,
• translation of discourse,
• translatability and untranslatability from SL into TL,
• cultural barriers in translation.

Teaching:

• linguistic seminar (BA),
• descriptive grammar,
• sociolinguistics,
• pragmatics,
• intercultural communication in the globalised world,
• MA seminar: major: digital teacher.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• member of PTN (Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne),
• member of PASE (Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Akademickich Filologii Angielskiej),
• member of ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English),
• member of PTJ (Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze),
• member of PTLS (Polskie Towarzystwo Lingwistyki Stosowanej),
• member of The Societas Linguistica Europea (Europejskiego Stowarzyszenia Językoznawców),
• member of Rada Wydawnicza czasopisma międzynarodowego JoLaCE (Journal of Language and Cultural Education: Editorial Board), issued in Slovakia,
• member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Katowice Branch), (Eng. Linguistics Committee)

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2014; Cukurova University, Adana – Turkey – visiting lectures – Erasmus programme.
• 2013; Universidad Castilla la Mancha, Cuenca – Spain – visiting lectures – Erasmus programme,
• 2012; Visja Strokovna Sola – Solski Center – Slovenj Gradec, – Slovenia – visiting lectures – Erasmus programme.

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• 2016; “Modernizing Educational Practice Perspectives in Content and Language Integrated Learning”. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Monograph / Monografia (edited by Katarzyna Papaja, PhD., University of Silesia and Artur Świątek, PhD., Pedagogical University of Cracow, IFA).
• 2014; “The order of the acquisition of the English article system by Polish learners in different proficiency groups”. Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Articles:

• Papaja, K., Mielnik, K., Świątek, A. (2019). „Deep learning (pogłębianie procesu uczenia się) z perspektywy analizy potrzeb studentów języka angielskiego jako obcego”. Forum Filologiczne Ateneum, nr 1, s. 301-320,
• Pluszczyk, A., Świątek, A. (2018). „The awareness of the complexity in English function and content words by Polish subjects in different proficiency groups”. In: The foundations and versatility of English language teaching (ELT). Edited by Christoph Haase, Natalia Orlova and Joel Head. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, s. 91-102,
• Papaja, K., Świątek, A. (2018). “The image of a woman in advertising perceived by Polish student of English philology”. In: Interdisciplinary views on the English language, literature and culture. Edited by Leszek Szymański, Joanna Zawodniak, Agnieszka Łobodziec and Marek Smoluk. Zielona Góra: Wydział Humanistyczny Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, s. 53-72,
• Świątek, A. (2018). “The use of the selected English determiners by Polish users of English at different proficiency levels”. Applied Linguistic Papers, vol. 23, no. 3, s. 79-88,
• Świątek, A. (2017). “The use of the selected lexical and function words to, there, before by L2 Polish users at different proficiency levels”. Lingwistyka Stosowana, t. 21, s. 167-173.