Joanna Pitura, PhD

Position:

• Assistant Professor

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Scientific supervisor of the SNEC student society.

Degrees:

• 2015; Doktor nauk humanistycznych w zakresie językoznawstwa;
  Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Anglistyki;
  Thesis: „Stress and occupational burnout in Polish teachers of English – an empirical study”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Hanna Komorowska-Janowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski;
  Reviewer: prof. UAM, dr hab. Krystyna Droździał-Szelest, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, prof. UW, dr hab. Romuald Gozdawa-Gołębiowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department:

• Department of English Language Studies

Research Interests:

• AI-assisted language learning and teaching,
• Digital language pedagogy
• Language socialisation in higher education,
• Research methods in educational research,
• Academic writing,
• Gamification,
• Personal Knowledge Management.

Teaching:

• Research methods in glottodidactis,
• Academic writing,
• MA seminar,
• Gamification,
• Personal Knowledge Management,
• Practical English.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing,
• International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association,
• Polish Association of Modern Languages.

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2019; “Designing technology-mediated genre-based instruction to develop L2 speaking skills among English Philology students” – SPREMI seminar, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Main Publications:

Books

• Pitura, J.  (2022). Gamification for engagement with language learning tasks. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie.

Articles

• Pitura, J., Kaplan-Rakowski, R., & Asotska-Wierzba, Y. (2024). The VR-AI–Assisted Simulation for Content Knowledge Application in Pre-Service EFL Teacher Training. TechTrends.
• Pitura, J. (2024). Enhancing advanced vocabulary in EFL writing: an AI-assisted intervention for English studies students in Poland. Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning.
• Pitura, J., Turula, A., Nowak, S., Jakubik, J., & Asotska-Wierzba, Y. (2024). Mapping the landscape of serious digital language learning games: Towards a Serious-Digital Game-based Language Learning (S-DGBLL) teacher competence framework. Neofilolog, 62/2, 482-501.
• Pitura, J. (2024). Participatory action research: advocacy and activism for promoting social justice in and through CALL. Computer Assisted Language Learning.
• Pitura, J. (2023). Using the e-questionnaire in qualitative applied linguistics research. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(1), 100034.
• Pitura, J. (2023). Digital Note-Taking for Writing. In Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (pp. 101-119). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• Pitura, J. (2022). Technology-enhanced socialisation into disciplinary writing in L2: insights from the perceptions of MA TEFL students. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 35(9), 2361-2390.
• Pitura, J. (2022). Developing L2 speaking skills in English-medium EFL higher education. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 16(2), 118-143.