Notes on authors

Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej works as a university professor at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her scientific background includes over 40 papers presented at national and international conferences and 50 works including monographs, articles in journals, chapters in monographs and co-edited volumes. Her area of interest includes professional and intercultural communication, business and advertising discourse, specialist language teaching, and recently, also multilingualism and language policy. Currently, she conducts research as a part of the MaMLiSE project (“Majority and minority languages in school environment: helping teachers, pupils and parents”), carried out within the Erasmus+ programme. ORCID: 0000-0003-4457-9715

Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak works as a university professor at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her main research interests are applied linguistics, in particular inter-language (acquisition) pragmatics, foreign language teaching and pedagogically oriented research on hate speech. She authored three books and over 50 scientific papers, as well as co-edited six monographs. Currently, she is the coordinator of the MaMLiSE project (“Majority and minority languages in school environment: helping teachers, pupils and parents”), carried out within the Erasmus+ programme (KA2: Strategic partnerships in School education sector, project no. 2020-1-PL01_KA201-081612). The project aims to prepare a training offer for teachers working in classes diversified in terms of language proficiency. In the 2014–2016 period, she conducted research and training activities as a part of the RADAR (“Regulating anti-discrimination and anti-racism”) project co-financed by the European Commission. The RADAR team researched racist and xenophobic hate speech. ORCID: 0000-0002-5549-6862

Hadrian Lankiewicz is the Director of the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Gdańsk. He also works as a university professor at the Department of Literature and Language Research at the Koszalin University of Technology. He holds professional Master’s degrees in history, English and Italian philology, an academic doctorate in literary studies and a postdoctoral degree in linguistics. His scientific interests concern both linguistic issues (foreign language acquisition, linguistic identity, multilingualism, language policy) and literary studies, and are most often inspired by the application of an ecological metaphor in research on language and cultural products. The so-called critical perspective is an important element of his scientific publications. ORCID: 0000-0001-5124-7861

From the series of publications awarded in „Monografie” contest (edition 2021)

Kic-Drgas, J. & Woźniak, J. (Eds.). (2022). Perspectives on LSP teacher training in Poland. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo FRSE. https://doi.org/10.47050/66515796