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Keynote speakers

Katalin É. Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

prof. Kiss

Professor, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Department of Theoretical Linguistics
2087 Piliscsaba, Egyetem u. 1

Research Interests:

  • Generative Syntax
  • Hungarian Syntax

[Website: http://www.nytud.hu/depts/tlp/ekiss/]

Jarosław Krajka (University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw)

prof. Krajka

Head of Division of Applied Linguistics at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Ph.D. from Adam Mickiewicz University (TEFL), habilitated doctor from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (CALL/teacher training)

Main research interests:

  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning
  • digital teacher training
  • culture-sensitive ELT pedagogy

Major publications are monographs English Language Teaching in the Internet-Assisted Environment (2007) and The Language Teacher in the Digital Age (2012).

Founder and editor-in-chief of a major Polish CALL journal Teaching English with Technology (http://www.tewtjournal.org), indexed in Scopus, ERIHPlus, DOAJ, CEEOL, CEJSH, BazHum, and awarded 10 points on the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s list.

[Website: http://umcs-pl.academia.edu/jkrajka]

Markus Pöchtrager (Boğaziçi University)

Research interests:

Phonology, phonological metatheory, phonology-morphology interaction, linguistics as a cognitive science, Finno-Ugric & Scandinavian languages, Turkic

Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska (Maria-Curie Skłodowska University, Lublin)

prof. Szpyra-Kozłowska

JOLANTA SZPYRA-KOZŁOWSKA is Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Chair of Phonetics and Phonology in the Department of English at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. She has published extensively (7 books and over 100 papers) on English and Polish phonology, the phonology-morphology interaction, acquisition of phonetics and phonology, pronunciation pedagogy, and gender linguistics. Her books include The Phonology-Morphology Interface. Cycles, Levels and Words (1989, London and New York), Three Tiers in Polish and English Phonology (1995, Lublin), Wprowadzenie do współczesnej fonologii (Introduction to Contemporary Phonology, 2002, Lublin), Lingwistyka płci. Ona i on w języku polskim (Gender Linguistics. Her and Him in Polish, co-authored by M. Karwatowska, 2005, Lublin).