Katarzyna MORENA, Ph.D.

Position:

• Assistant Professor

Positions held in the Institute:

• Recruiter Secretary for BA extramural studies
• Exam Coordinator for the first year of 5-year MA studies
• Supervisor of student internships (MA studies)
• Representative of the Department of English Language Education during the UKEN Open Days

Degrees:

• PhD. (Ling.), 2021
  Pedagogical University of Cracow
  Thesis: “The motivation of academics to learn foreign lanugages in the cotext of professional activities”
  Supervisor: Małgorzata Pamuła-Behrens, PhD
  Reviewer: Hanna Komorowska, PhD
  Reviewer: Krystyna Droździał – Szelest, PhD

• MA. (English philology), 2009
  Jagiellonian University, Department of English Studies

Thesis: “Foreign Language Anxiety in Adult Learners”

Supervisor: Ewa Witalisz, PhD

Main field of research:

• Linguistics (Applied Linguistics)
• Psychology of language learning

Department:

• Department of English Language Education

Research Interests:

• Scholars well-being
• Scholars’ motivation to learn foreign languages
• Autonomy in language teaching and leaning
• Foreign language anxiety
• Teaching English for Specific Purposes

Teaching:

• Practical English Language Skills
• Psychology of languge learning
• Teacher well-being course for Erasmus students

Membership in Academic Societies:

• Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne (PTN)
• International Association for Psychology of Language Learning.

Main Publications:

Articles:

• Morena, K. (2024). The analysis of scholars’ English language needs. Bellaterra 17(2), Spain.
• Pamuła- Behrens, M., & Morena, K. (2019). Rola motywacji w procesie uczenia się języka przez uczniów z doświadczeniem migracji – Metoda JES-PL”, Neofilolog 52 (1), s. 43-60. Poznań.
• Morena, K. (2016). Foreign language anxiety in out-of-class performance. Identifying language –anxiety sources, its effects and coping strategies. Neofilolog 46/1, Poznan.
• Morena, K. (2015). Foreign language anxiety and adult EFL learners: sources, effects and what can be done about it. In: Elisabete Silva, Clarisse Pais, Luis S. Pais (eds.) “Teaching Crossroads: 10th Erasmus Week” (pp. 57-71). Bragança, Portugal.