I am a doctoral candidate in linguistics at the University of Lodz, Poland. My research focuses on the acquisition of English grammatical morphemes by L1 Polish learners through cross-sectional corpus analysis. I hold MAs in Teaching Mandarin as a Second Language and International Relations, as well as a CELTA qualification. With over a decade of experience, I have taught English, Mandarin Chinese and Polish to non-native speakers at universities, language schools, private companies and as a private tutor in China, the UK and Poland. 

Education

2014 CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
International Teaching and Training Centre (ITTC), Bournemouth, UK

2013 MA in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
Ludong University (College of International Education), Yantai, China

2008 MA in International Relations
University of Lodz (Faculty of International and Political Studies), Lodz, Poland

Related experience

2017-2023 English Lecturer
Shantou University, English Language Center (ELC), Shantou, China

• ELC Level 2 Coordinator: Managing a team of English teachers; developing materials also for online courses; supervising exam preparation; chairing monthly Level meetings; lialising with the ELC authorities on behalf of the Level; supervising and developing the Level's Moodle page; teaching the ELC2 course (also online) to undergraduate students
• ELC Strategy Project Co-coordinator (Guangdong Provincial Project): Researching the praxis of ELC teaching and learning; drafting recommendations for ELC in light of current SLA research findings; coordinating the work of the Project's Vocabulary and Grammar Team
• Co-coordinator of the ELC New Teachers’ Study Group & Teacher Trainer: Schedule drafting, lesson plan consultations, class observations and feedback, and workshops
• ELC Level 4 Teacher: Teaching logical fallacies and EAP incl. APA to undergraduate students (2017- 2019)

My academic interests include corpus linguistics, vocabulary and grammar acquisition, curriculum design and materials development.

Presentations at international conferences

The 11th Asian Conference on Education & International Development (ACEID2025), March 24–29, 2025, Tokyo, Japan – The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) & the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, Japan

• Presentation title: Suppliance in All Contexts: A Novel Framework for Evaluating Grammatical Morpheme Accuracy in EFL/ESL Education

International Conference Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation – GLOTECH (virtual), December 12–13, 2024 – Digital Language Learning (DL2), University of Alicante, Spain

• Presentation title: Using the Cambridge Learner Corpus to Study English Article Acquisition

The 2nd International Conference on Language, Learning & Teaching Excellence (ICLLT), November 19, 2024, Putrajaya, Malaysia – online presentation – International Institute of Academic Research & Publications in association with Glovento

• Presentation title: The Acquisition of English Articles by Speakers of Article-less [-ART] Languages Across Proficiency Levels: Corpus Data from Polish EFL Learners

The 31st Korea TESOL International Conference, April 27–28, 2024, Seoul, South Korea – online presentation – Korea TESOL & Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea

L2 Teacher Judgements of Learner Vocabulary Knowledge. Implications for Cloze Test Design

• Presentation title: L2 Teacher Judgements of Learner Vocabulary Knowledge. Implications for Cloze Test Design

Guest online lecture for the Student Research Group "Empirical Methods in Language Studies" (EMILs), Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Wałbrzych, May 26, 2025

• Lecture title: Corpus Linguistics: A Window into Real Language Use