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Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
w Krakowie

Werona KRÓL-GIERAT, Ph.D.

Werona KRÓL-GIERAT, Ph.D.

Research assistant

Department of English Language Education

werona.krol-gierat@uken.krakow.pl

phone: +48 12 662 69 61

room: 313

ORCID: 0000-0001-6522-2550

publications:

http://bgbase.uken.krakow.pl/

Position:

  •  Assistant professor

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

  • Acting Head of Department of English Language Education (2020/21),
  • Deputy Head (2020/21) and Head (2021/22) of postgraduate studies Teaching English to Students with Special Educational Needs,
  • Institute Council,
  • Quality Assurance Committee,
  • Supervisor of teaching practice
  • Coordinator of the Night of English   (https://www.nocanglistow.pl/uniwersytet/uken)
  • Cooperation with the US Consulate General in Krakow

Degrees:

  • 2017;  Ph.D. (Ling);
    Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie;
    Thesis: “Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Inclusive Classrooms at the Lower-Primary Level. An Analysis of Teachers’ Needs and the Achievements of Learners with Special Educational Needs”;
    Supervisor: dr hab. prof. UP Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow;
    Supervisor: dr Małgorzata Marzec-Stawiarska;
    Reviewer: prof. zw. dr hab. Hanna Komorowska (Uniwersytet SWPS Humanistycznospołeczny w Warszawie), prof. zw. dr hab. Katarzyna Karpińska-Szaj (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu).
  • 2011 M.A. (Philology, spec. Romanic Language and Cultures);
    Uniwersytet Jagielloński;
    Thesis: “Transformation in Audiovisual Translation: the Case of American and Polish Dubbed Versions of Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio”;
  • 2011 M.A. (English philology);
    Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie;
    Thesis: “Teaching Vocabulary to Children with Special Educational Needs Using Video Cartoons”.
  • 2009 B.A. English philology with early school pedagogy;
    Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie;
    Thesis: “Developing English Proficiency with CALL”.

Main field of research:

  • Linguistics (Applied Linguistics).

Department

  • Department of English Language Education.

Research Interests:

  • Child Foreign Language Acquisition,
  • Special Educational Needs,
  • Language teacher education and development,
  • Education and integration of bi-/multilingual students with migrant background.

Teaching:

  • Teaching English to Young Learners,
  • Basics of foreign languages teaching,
  • Classroom management,
  • Teaching English as a Foreign Language,
  • Assessment in ELT,
  • Special Educational Needs in language learning, off- and online,
  • B.A. and M.A. Seminar,
  • Practical English,
  • Academic writing,
  • Methodology of foreign language teaching,
  • Psychological and pedagogical foundations of foreign language teaching to children,
  • Children’s literature in foreign language teaching,
  • Games and plays in foreign language teaching.

Membership in Academic Societies:

  • Polish Association of Modern Languages,
  • Early Language Learning Research Association (ELLA).

Selected visiting lectures:

  • 2024; Varna, Bulgaria, Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”
  • 2023; Cagliari, Italy, Universita’ di Cagliari,
  • 2018; Venice, Italy, Universita’ Ca’Foscari,
  • 2017; Porto, Portugal, Universidade do Porto,
  • 2016; Madrid, Spain, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CES Don Bosco),
  • 2015; Rome, Italy, Universita’ Degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”.
  • 2023; Cagliari, Italy, Universita’ di Cagliari,
  • 2024; Varna, Bulgaria, Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”

Main Publications:

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