Agata WOLANIN, Ph.D.

Position:

• Research and Teaching Assistant Professor

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, editorial assistant, since 2022,
• Council of the English Studies Institute, member (2020-2024),
• Recruitment Committee Board at the Institute of English Studies, member, since 2020,
• System XP, institute coordinator (2016-2021),
• Practical English Course (year III), coordinator, since 2017,
• Supervisor of the student teaching practice, since 2016.

Degrees:

• 2020; Ph.D. in Linguistics;
  Jagiellonian University, Kraków;
  Thesis: “The dynamism of critical cultural awareness: An empirical project based on reflective tasks and English philology students’ journals”;
  Supervisor: dr hab. Maria Jodłowiec;
  Reviewer: dr hab. Grażyna Zarzycka, prof. UŁ, prof. dr hab. Andrzej Łyda (UŚ).

• 2015; M.A. in English;
  Jagiellonian University, Kraków;
  Thesis: “Raising critical cultural awareness: A case study of English teachers’ beliefs and practices in the Polish educational context”;
  Supervisor: dr Ewa Bandura

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department:

• Department of English Language Education

Research Interests:

• Intercultural education,
• Critical cultural awareness,
• Education for citizenship,
• Critical Pedagogy,
• Extramural English.

Teaching:

• Practical English V & VI (Integrated Skills),
• MA seminar,
• Second Language Acquisition Theories,
• Intercultural communication,
• L2 learning strategies.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• International Association for Intercultural Education (since 2018),
• Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne (since 2023),
• Early Language Learning Research Association (since 2025).

Research internships:

• University of Osijek, Croatia (12.10.2025-12.11.2025) – as part of the IDUB-03: Excellent mobility programme;

Selected lectures:

• 2022 – University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
• 2025 – University of Osijek, Chorwacja

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• Wolanin, A. 2022. The complexity of critical cultural awareness in L2 education: from theory to practice. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UP.
• Rokita-Jaśkow, J., Król-Gierat W., Nosidlak K., Wolanin A. 2024. Na wspólnej drodze. Nauczyciele języka angielskiego o pracy z uczniami z doświadczeniem migracji. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UP.

Articles:

• Wolanin, A. 2025. A new generation of proficient EFL users and the impact of their engagement with extramural English on their receptive vocabulary, Prace Językoznawcze, 27(4), 129-145. https://doi.org/10.31648/pj.118
• Wolanin, A. 2025. In the webs of the Internet: Generation Z and their informal exposure to English, Neofilolog, 64(2), 325-345. https://doi.org/10.14746/n.2025.64.2.7
• Wolanin, A. 2025.“I feel like I’m a different person: Exploring undergraduate students’ imagined L2 selves, Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 11(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.15909
• Rokita-Jaśkow, J., Nosidlak, K., Wolanin, A., & Król-Gierat, W. 2025. Language teachers’ attitudes to working with multilingual refugee learners: Do teacher Openness to Experience, Intercultural Sensitivity and plurilingualism matter? Language Teaching Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688251317902
• Wolanin, A. 2025. Academic writing skills in the eyes of university students of English and their teachers, Glottodidactica, 52(1), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.14746/gl.2025.52.1.8
• Rokita-Jaśkow, J., Wolanin A., Król-Gierat W., Nosidlak K. 2023. Bridging the ‘dual lives’: school socialization of young bi/multilinguals in the eyes of EFL teachers, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2114788
• Wolanin, A. 2021. The evolution of L2 education and research: An overview of paradigm shifts in applied linguistics, Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 16, 211-223. https://doi.org/10.24917/20831765.16.18
• Wolanin, A. 2021. “Picture this!” – the educational value of illustrations in the process of teaching L2 to young learners. In: Rokita-Jaśkow J., Wolanin A. (eds.). Facing diversity in child foreign language education, 201-213. Springer.
• Cierpisz, A. 2019. Dismantling intercultural competence – a proposal for interpreting the concept of critical cultural awareness in an L2 teaching context, Neofilolog, 52(2), 227-243. https://doi.org/10.14746/n.2019.52.2.3

Science popularization activities:

• Workshops for secondary school students as part of the EU project Małopolska Chmura Edukacyjna – participation in four editions: December 2017 / June 2018 / April 2019 / November 2019
• Workshop “Za którymi górami, za czyimi lasami…?”- Storytelling Techniques in Intercultural Education, delivered as part of the 1st edition of Noc Anglistów, Kraków, 26 November 2021
• Presentation as part of “Digital Thursday”, 16 December 2021, Student-Doctoral Research Group SNEC
• Co-organization of a workshop for teachers titled “A Student with Refugee Experience in the Classroom: How to Cope?”, organized on 26 March 2022 by the Department of English Language Education
• Lecture titled “Chaos Managers in Times of Crisis: Is It Worth Becoming an EFL Teacher?” as part of the 3rd edition of Noc Anglistów, Kraków, 24 November 2023
• Video recording titled “Na wspólnej drodze”, together with J. Rokita-Jaśkow, W. Król-Gierat, and K. Nosidlak, as part of the 4th edition of Noc Anglistów, Kraków, 29 November 2024
• The Great Philological Quiz (for primary and secondary school students) as part of the 5th edition of Noc Anglistów, Kraków, 28 November 2025