Prof. Anna TURULA, PhD (habilitatus)

Position:

• Professor of the Pedagogical University

Positions held in the Institute and the University/Pełnione funkcje w Instytucie:

• Department of Technology Enhanced Language Education

Degrees

•  2012; D. Litt in Applied Linguistics;
  Uniwersytet Śląski;
  Thesis: “Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner. On the Importance of the Semantics of Grammar”;
  Reviewers: prof. dr hab. Maria Wysocka, prof. dr hab. Hanna Komorowska, prof. dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Piotrowski.

• 2002; hD in Applied Linguistics;
  Uniwersytet Śląski;
  Thesis: “Language Anxiety and Classroom Dynamics. Teacher, Peers and Learning Environment as Inhibiting Factors”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Maria Wysocka;
  Reviewers: prof. dr hab. Hanna Komorowska, prof. dr hab. Krystyna Szelest-Drozdział.

• 1990; MA in American literature;
  Uniwersytet Wrocławski;
  Thesis: “On Their return to the Flowering Tree. The Contemporary Poetry of Native American Women”;
  Supervisor: dr Ken Leubbering;
  Reviewer: dr Edward Szynal.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics.

Department:

• Technology Enhanced Language Education Dept.

Research Interests

• new technologies in language learning and teacher training,
• intercultural communicative competence,
• form-focused instruction.

Teaching:

• CALL lecture,
• Seminars,
• Media Literacy,
• Monographic lecture,
• E-Learning at university,
• University didactics.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• Stowarzyszenie E-learningu Akademickiego.

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2018; Beit Berl College, Israel,
• 2017; Malmö University, Sweden,
• 2017; Pädagogische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland,
• 2016; University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain,
• 2015; Pädagogische Hochschule, Freiburg, Germany,
• 2012; Universidad de Cadiz, Spain,
• 2006; Norre Nissum Seminarium, Denmark.

Main Publications:

Monografhs:

• “E-learning akademicki. Perspektywa humanistyczna”. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UP (2018).
• “Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner. On the Importance of the Semantics of Grammar”. Frankfurt: Peter Lang (published in 2011).
• “From Theory to Practice and All the Way Back”. Częstochowa: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Lingwistycznej (published in 2010).
• “Language Anxiety and Classroom Dynamics”. Bielsko-Biała: Wydawnictwo Naukowe ATH (published in 2006); Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

Articles:

• 2021; “Civic literacy in the telecollaborative language classroom”; CALL for Background, Anna Turula & Anita Buczek-Zawiła (eds),
• 2019; “Telecollaboration and virtual exchange across disciplines: in service of social inclusion and global citizenship”, A Turula, M Kurek, T Lewis; Research-publishing. net,
• 2019; “Experiential learning of telecollaborative competences in pre-service teacher education”; MK Grau, A Turula; Language Learning and Technology 23, 98-115,
• 2018; “Dynamika stosunków społecznych w e-grupie: jak to robimy na platformie MOODLE”; A Turula, T Walasek; Meritum. Mazowiecki Kwartalnik Edukacyjny 48, 28-38,
• 2018; “Distributed Teaching Presence in a Telecollaborative Project”; A Turula, M Grau; CALL for Mobility.