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Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction

December 2012
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning, Language and Literacy (teaching and assessment)

M.A., English, with TESL specialization

June 1992
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Associate Professor (2020 - Present)

Counseling, Educational Leadership, Educational & School Psychology, 麻豆传媒映画出品 State University, KS

Assistant Professor (August 2015 鈥� 2020)

Counseling, Educational Leadership, Educational & School Psychology, 麻豆传媒映画出品 State University, KS

COURSES:

• CLES 904 鈥� Psychology of Language and Discourse Processes (Hybrid), doctoral level

• CLES 902 鈥� Psychology of Leadership, Persuasion and Influence (Hybrid), doctoral level

• CESP 831 - Social Psychology for Educational and Helping Professions (Hybrid)

• CESP 875 鈥� Practicum in Higher Education Leadership (Hybrid)

• CLES 802 鈥� Theories of Human Development for Counseling Professionals (Online-Hybrid)

• CESP 729 鈥� Theories of Early Childhood Development (Hybrid)

• CESP 728 鈥� Theories of Human Development (Online-Hybrid)

• CESP 433 鈥� Learning, Assessment, and Evaluation Theory: Evidence-Based Instruction (Online

Visiting Assistant Professor (August 2014 鈥� May 2015)

Counseling, Educational Leadership, Educational & School Psychology, 麻豆传媒映画出品 State University, KS

COURSES:

• CESP 831 - Social Psychology for Educational and Helping Professionals
• CESP 728 鈥� Theories of Human Development
• CESP 728 - Theories of Human Development: Early Childhood
• CESP 433 - Learning, Assessment, and Eveluation Theory: Evidence-Based Instruction

Visiting Lecturer (August 2012 - May 2013)

Intensive English Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Test Specification and Task-Item Developer (March 2012 - June 2012)

EF/ Education First, HQs in London, United Kingdom & Luzern, Switzerland

Teaching Assistant and Primary Instructor (August 2007 鈥� 2010)

Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Lecturer in Social Psychology, Human Development, and Sociology

(Psychology Department) 1997- 2003

EFL/ESL Teacher鈥揈ducator and Teacher-Trainer

(English Department) 2001-2007
University of Social Sciences and Humanities
(former Warsaw School of Social Psychology), Warsaw, Poland

EFL teacher, EFL-methods director and a co-manager

(September 1991 鈥� 2006)
Foreign Languages School "Beyond 2000", Warsaw, Poland

ESL Teacher-Educator and Teacher-Trainer and ESL examiner

(October 1994 鈥� Sept. 2003)
University of Warsaw, English Teachers鈥� Training College (ETTC), Warsaw, Poland

English teacher

(September 1991- Aug. 1992)
73rd Public High School, Warsaw, Poland

Teacher Trainee Intern

(September 1989 鈥� June 1991)
Primus Inter Pares Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

Principal Investigator in a Multidisciplinary/Collaborative Study

(January 2018 - Present)
Educational Psychology Program, 麻豆传媒映画出品 | 麻豆传媒映画出品, KS
In collaboration with the Department of Social Sciences and Health Promotion, University of Physical Education, Wroclaw, Poland.

• Designing the study, ensuring measuring instruments, orchestrating data collection, analysis and report, as well as submitting a grant proposal for a multidisciplinary project with Counseling Program colleagues - Mindfulness, intersubjectivity and empathy in speech-language pathology counseling discourses.

Principal Investigator in a Multidisciplinary/Collaborative Study

(August 2016 - Present)
Educational Psychology Program, 麻豆传媒映画出品 | 麻豆传媒映画出品, KS

• Designing the study, ensuring measuring instruments, orchestrating data collection, analysis and report, as well as submitting a grant proposal for a multidisciplinary project with Counseling Program colleagues- Mindfulness, Intersubjectivity and Empathy in Counseling Trainees鈥� Professional Discourse.

Research Assistant Supervisor and Principal Investigator

(August 2015 - Present)
Educational Psychology Program, 麻豆传媒映画出品 | 麻豆传媒映画出品, KS

• As a Principal Investigator supervising an RA in data input and preparation for analysis, and reporting of the following projects - Discipline-Specific Instructional Metadiscourse with Gestures and Epistemic Beliefs of Pre-Service Teachers; Epistemology and modality in instructional discourses; Epistemological marking in academic genres; Mindfulness, intersubjectivity and empathy in counseling trainee鈥檚 professional discourse.

Post-Doctoral Researcher

(August 2013 鈥� August 2014)
Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, IL
Collaborative Reasoning Research Group

• Research into instructional discourse in teacher-student interactions in Collaborative Reasoning paradigm (headed by Prof. Richard C. Anderson) at the interface of language and cognition.

Research Assistant

(Jan. 2008 - June 2008, August 2010 鈥� June 2012)
Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, IL
Collaborative Reasoning Research Project, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois;

• Applied complex taxonomy of metadiscourse to oral and written corpora of children鈥檚 argumentation in small group discussions and persuasive essays, micro-genetic and sociolinguistic mixed-methods analysis at the interface of discourse analysis, rhetoric, and socio-pragmatics;
• Conducted training workshops for teachers and on-going in-class consultation for elementary teachers during Collaborative Reasoning implementation in K-6 social studies;
• Developed tasks, multidisciplinary units, assessments of reading and literacy;
• Collaborated in implementation, data collection and analysis of Mindful Instruction project (headed by Prof. Richard C. Anderson), targeting non-mainstream learners in K-6 schools, IL

Teacher Researcher

(September 2000 - June 2003)
English Teacher Training College, the University of Warsaw
Applied Linguistics Didactics, Prof. Anna Duszak, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw,

• Designed and oversaw implementation of metacognitive strategies training program in EFL licensure
• Conducted research and prepared dissertation study: Rhetorical text structure as a meta-cognitive strategy facilitating higher EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement, under the supervision of Prof. Anna Duszak

Book Chapters

• Latawiec, B. M. (2016). Metacognition and a moving target of reading comprehension: Effective instructional practices and paradigms. In H. Kyuchukov (Ed.), New Trends in the Psychology of Language: Lincom Studies in Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (pp. 107-143). Munich, Germany: Lincom Academic Publisher.

• Latawiec, B. M., Latawiec, C., & Bokus, B. (2016). Dynamic Assessment of Pan-Slavic Persuasive and Interactive Performance. In H. Kyuchukov (Ed.), New Trends in the Psychology of Language: Lincom Studies in Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (pp. 54-82). Munich, Germany: Lincom Academic Publisher

Journals - Refereed

• Sekulowicz, M., Boro艅-Krupi艅ska, K., Kwiatkowski, P., & Latawiec, B. M. (2020). Sense of coherence, resiliency and coping as correlates of parental burnout in the context of children with autism and other disabilities: The new burnout screening instrument. Niepe艂nosprawno艣膰. Dyskursy Pedagogiki Specjalnej [Disability. Discourses in Special Education], 36, 254-268.

• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., & Ma, S. (2017). Socialization via metadiscourse in children鈥檚 Collaborative Reasoning discussions and persuasive essays. Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois: Champaign, IL.

• Ma, S., Anderson, R. C., Lin, T.-J., Zhang, J., Morris, J. A., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., Miller, B. W., Jadallah, M., Scott, T., Sun, J., Grabow, K., Latawiec, B. M., & Yi, F-H. (2017). Instructional influences on
  English language learners' storytelling. Learning and Instruction, 49, 64-80. doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.12.004

• Ma, S., Zhang, J., Anderson, R.C., Morris, J., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., Miller, B., Jadallah, M., Sun, J., Lin, T-J., Scott, T., Hsu, Y-L., Zhang, X., Latawiec, B., & Grabow, K. (2017). Children鈥檚 productive use of academic vocabulary. Discourse Processes, 54, 40-61. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2016.1166889

• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., Ma, S., & Nguyen-Jahiel, K. (2016). Influence of Collaborative Discussions on metadiscourse in children鈥檚 essay. Text & Talk, 36(1), 23鈥�46. DOI: 10.1515/text-2016-0002.

• Zhang, X., Anderson, R. C., Morris, J., Miller, B., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., Lin, T-J, Zhang, J., Jadallah, M., Scott, T., Sun, J., Latawiec, B., Ma, S., Grabow, K., & Hsu, Y-L. (2015). Improving children鈥檚 competence as decision makers: Constructing effects of collaborative interaction and direct instruction. American Educational Research Journal, 53, 194-223. doi:10.3102/0002831215618663

• Latawiec, B. (2010). Text structure awareness as a metacognitive strategy facilitating ESL/EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement. International Journal of Learning, Vol. 17(5), 25-48 (www.Learning-Journal.com).
• Latawiec, B. (2004). Selectivity of Human Memory (book review). Jezyki Obce w Szkole [Foreign Languages in School], 3, 188-192.

Under Review:

• Latawiec, B. M. Discipline-specific instructional metadiscourse with gestures and epistemic beliefs of pre-service teachers.

• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., & Ma, S. Instructional metadiscourse supporting intersubjectivity, autonomy, argument elaboration and inclusion of quiet/shy children in Collaborative Reasoning discussions.

In progress

• Latawiec, B.M. & Fiorini, J. Mindfulness, intersubjectivity and empathy in counseling trainees鈥� professional discourse.

• Latawiec, B. M., & Sekulowicz, M. (in progress). Mindfulness, intersubjectivity and empathy in American and Polish counseling dyads.

Non-Peer Refereed:

• Latawiec, B.M. (2012). Metadiscourse in oral discussions and written essays by children exposed to Collaborative Reasoning (Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois online repository. In preparation for publication by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing).
• Latawiec, B.M. (in preparation). Text structure awareness as metacognitive strategy facilitating ESL/EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement. (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw); based on the longitudinal study, defended as Early Research Project at the Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois (2008), and presented at the International Learning Conference in Barcelona (2009).

• Fiorini, J. & Latawiec, B.M. (2020, October). Empathy, mindfulness and intersubjectivity in counseling students鈥� professional discourses. Presentation for the North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision/ NCACES Conference, Omaha, NE. (Conference canceled 鈥� to be held virtually)

• Latawiec, B.M. & Fiorini, J. (2020, April). Empathy, mindfulness and intersubjectivity in counseling discourse. 2020 National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition Annual Research Program, San Francisco, CA, United States http://ncichome.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/0/2/30025445/ncic_bulletin_2020-_sf_final [1].pdf (Conference canceled)

• Latawiec, B.M. (2020, April). Chair of the session titled Examining the role of identity and emotion in the experience of literacy; Division C - Learning and Instruction. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association/AERA. San Francisco, CA. (Conference canceled)

• Latawiec, B.M. & Fiorini, J. (2019, February). Empathy, mindfulness and intersubjective affinity in counseling-students鈥� professional discourse. Paper presentation at the 22nd Annual American Association of Behavioral & Social Science Conference (AABSS). Las Vegas University, Las Vegas: CA.

• Latawiec, B. M. (2018, July). Teachers Metadiscourse (incl. embodied Discourse/Gestures) and Epistemic Beliefs in Interplay w/ Disciplinary Discourses. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST & D). Brighton, the United Kingdom.

• Latawiec, B. M. & Newell, B. (2018, April). Preservice Teachers Epistemic Beliefs and Discipline-Specific Instructional Metadiscourse, incl. Embodied Discourse. Paper presented for the National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition, at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). New York, NY.

• Latawiec, B. M. (2018, March). Student-Teachers epistemic beliefs and metadiscourse (incl. gestures) in disciplinary discourses. Presentation at the National Council for the Teachers of English Assembly for Research (NCTEAR). Towson University, Towson, MD.

• Latawiec, B. M. (2017, April). Preservice Teachers Metadiscourse for Socio-cultural, Communicatively-Rich and Effective Instructional Rhetoric and Praxis. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). San Antonio, TX.

• Latawiec, B.M. (2017, February). Preservice Instructional Metadiscourse for Communicatively-Rich and Effective Instructional Rhetoric and Praxis. Presentation accepted at the National Council for the Teachers of English Assembly for Research (NCTEAR). San Francisco, CA.

• Latawiec, B. M. & Anderson, R.C. (2016, July). Teachers鈥� Metadiscourse and Metatalk for Intersubjective 鈥淚nclusion鈥�, Autonomy and Argumentative Elaboration in Collaborative Reasoning Small-Group Discussions. Paper-poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D). Kassel, Germany.

• Latawiec, B. M & Anderson, R.C. (2016, April). Socialization via Metadiscourse in Collaborative Reasoning Discussions and Essays, Inclusive of Quiet and Shy Children. Paper-poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association/AERA, Washington, DC.

• Latawiec, B. M. (2016, April). Chair of the session Influence of Texts and Contexts on English Language Learners & Struggling Readers; Division C - Learning & Motivation in Social & Cultural Contexts at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association/AERA, Washington, DC.

• Latavietz, B. (2016, March). Dynamic Assessment of Slavic Interactive and Persuasive Performance. Paper-poster presented at the GURT conference - Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education, Georgetown University, hosted by the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center/AELRC, Washington, DC.

• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R.C., & the Collaborative Reasoning Group (2015, April). Instructional metadiscourse Supporting Elaboration, Intersubjectivity and Autonomy in Collaborative Reasoning Discussions. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association/AERA, Chicago, IL.

• Latawiec, B.M. & Anderson, R.C. (2015, February). Teacher's Discourse and Metadiscourse Fostering Intersubjectivity, Autonomy and Elaboration in Collaborative Reasoning Discussions. Paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research (NCTEAR), New Orleans, LA.

• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C. and the Collaborative Reasoning Research Group. (2014, January). Collaborative Reasoning and Metadiscourse in Children鈥檚 Oral and Written Language. Presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research (NCTEAR), Elmhurst, IL.
• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., Ma, S. Nguyen-Jahiel, K. et al (2013, July). Metadiscourse in oral discussions and reflective essays of children participating in Collaborative Reasoning. Paper poster presentation at the Society for Text and Discourse, 23rd Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain (national/international).
• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., et al. (2012, April). Metadiscourse in oral discussions and persuasive essays in Collaborative Reasoning. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association /AERA, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (national/international).
• Latawiec, B., and Anderson, R. C. (2011, April). Influence of discussion on metadiscourse in children鈥檚 essays. Presentation at the College of Education Graduate Students Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL.
• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., et al. (2011, April). Influence of oral discussion on metadiscourse in reflective essays. Paper-poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association/AERA: Inciting the Social Imagination, New Orleans, LA.
• Latawiec, B., Latawiec, C. C., & Bokus, B. (2010, October). Pan-Slavic dynamic-formative assessment of oral performance as persuasion. Paper presentation at the Mid-west Association for Language Testers / MwALT, Dayton, OH.
• Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C. (2010, August). Influence of discussion on metadiscourse in children鈥檚 essays. Presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse/ST&D, Chicago, IL.
• Latawiec, B. M. (2009, July). Metacognitive strategies facilitating ESL/EFL comprehension and achievement. Presented at the 16th International Conference on Learning, Barcelona, Spain (national/international).
• Latawiec, B. M. (2008, October). Text structure awareness as a metacognitive strategy facilitating ESL/EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement. Presented at the Third Annual Foreign Language Share Fair, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
• Latawiec, B. M. (2007, July). Text structure awareness as a metacognitive strategy facilitating EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement. Paper presentation at the 10th International Pragmatics/ IPrA Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden (international).

Translation and editing:

• Pisula, W. (2001). Automatic and controlled behavioral acts: a comparative perspective (translation and editorial work), Warsaw: Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and Warsaw School of Social Psychology (SWPS).
• Ohme, R. (2000). Media and Unconscious Mind (translation and editing), Warsaw: Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
• Cacioppo, J. T. & Gardner (2000). Emotions (translation and editing). In R., Ohme, M. Jarymowicz, & J. Reykowski (Eds.). Automatyzmy w procesach przetwarzania informacji [Automatisms in information processing]. Warsaw: Inst. of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN).
• Kingfisher Illustrated Dictionary. (1996). Warsaw: MUZA, SA. [Volume C-D English to Polish translation]

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)

Ph. D. Program 2007-2012
Secondary and Continuing Education (current C & I)/ Language and Literacy Division
Quantitative Research Specialization

• PhD degree conferred on 24th December, 2012
• Doctoral Dissertation - Metadiscourse in oral discussions and persuasive essays of children participating in Collaborative Reasoning - chaired by Professor Sarah McCarthey and directed by Professor Richard C. Anderson. Mixed-methods study at the interface of language and literacy assessment, rhetoric, and educational psychology (incl. copyrighted complex taxonomy of metadiscourse, in socio-pragmatic and socio-linguistic corpus analysis)
• Early Research Project titled 鈥淭ext Structure Awareness as a Metacognitive Strategy Facilitating ESL/EFL Reading鈥� submitted to a committee: Richard C. Anderson (Educational Psychology), Bonnie Armbruster (Curriculum and Instruction), and Sarah McCarthey (Curriculum and Instruction), defended in May 2008 (published in International Journal of Learning).
• 鈥淧an-Glossic Oral Persuasion Testing鈥� specification (for language testing/EIL490), prompted by Slavic languages teaching, and research into 鈥淒ynamic Assessment of Oral Persuasion in Pan-Slavic Languages鈥� (inspired by advanced language testing EIL590, by Prof. Frederick Davidson, Dep. of Linguistics, UIUC); the latter resulted in the co-authored paper (under review) presented at the MwALT 2010 conference.
• Case study into reading assessment methods, conducted in a local elementary school near UrbanaChampaign, IL (2009), comparing standardized methods of testing reading versus developmental and qualitative assessments of children鈥檚 literacy (unpublished).

English Language Teachers in Europe, and Post-Graduate ESL Educators Program

Thames Valley University
London, the UK
Post-Graduate Program Spring 1998

• Refined TESL pedagogic and educational-evaluation skills that related to quality management and monitoring of compliance with EU mandates; participated in conferences and consultations (inter alia, aimed at enhancing English teacher trainees鈥� evaluation methods, incl. a doctoral study methods) with Thames Valley Evaluation Unit - involved earlier in PRODESS or PRINCE (evaluation programs in Central and Eastern Europe under the auspices of British Council); grant-proposal procured, awarded and funded by the SOCRATES EU Programme.

University of Warsaw,

Centre for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education
University College of English Language Teacher Education (former English Teacher Training College, ETTC)
PhD pursuant 1994-2003
EFL/ESL Pedagogy
Educational Psychology

• Pursued doctoral degree and conducted research (alongside teaching) in the fields of academic reading, psycholinguistics and metacognition (longitudinal study carried out in 2000-2003), supervised by Prof. Anna Duszak, Applied Linguistics Institute, the University of Warsaw (exempted from doctoral program participation due to considerable teaching experience).
• Independent research and consulting visits at the UIC (Chicago, 2006, 2004, 2001 and 2000), Stanford, Palo Alto (2006, 2004 & 2000), UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, IL (2006); a lecture series at the East Texas State University in Texarkana, TX (2000). Doctoral dissertation titled 鈥淎wareness of text structure strategy as a meta-cognitive strategy facilitating ESL/EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement鈥� (for the Dep. of Psychology, University of Warsaw).

University of Warsaw,

Institute of English Studies
Master of Arts in English Literature with Teaching Specialization (MATESL) 1985-1992

• Master degree thesis: Dramatic strategies in Harold Pinter's "Betrayal", defended in a comprehensive examination combining English literature and TESOL (June 1992).
• Completed Pedagogic specialization, i.e. 270 hours of methodology (of teaching English as a second language), psychology and pedagogy classes, as well as 180 contact hours of teaching practice/ internship, together with the final master鈥檚 degree examination that included a TESOL component (along the literary part based in the thesis and theory of literature), warranted the teaching certificate in English at any educational institution - certified by the Ministry of Education in Poland, July 1992. Pursued Individual Course of Studies that allowed for combining programs in English Philology, with concentration in literature (American and English) and coursework in linguistics 鈥� theoretical and applied (phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, psycho- and socio-linguistics) as well as methodology of teaching (child-, educational- and school-psychology, pedagogy and EFL/ESL methods) and Polish Philology (literature and culture).

Business and Foreign Languages College

Technical Baccalaureate, June 1985, Warsaw, Poland
Business administration and ESP correspondence

• Post-matriculation college, preparing for judiciary, business administration and clerical positions. Graduation requirement - submitting a diploma thesis and passing examinations in a foreign language (English for Specific Purposes/ESP, i.e. for diplomacy, business and politics) following apprenticeship. Apprenticeship in the Presidential Cabinet of the Main Office of the Council of Ministers (Warsaw, 1985); duties included editing of presidential speeches, among others (due to highly-ranked rhetoric).

 

Committee Work and Local Community Activities

• Judge for the 16^th Annual Graduate Research and Special Projects/GRASP Symposium, WSU (May 2020)

• Coordinator of Educational Psychology Comprehensive Exam Committee, CLES, WSU (Jan. 2019 - Present)

• Member of EdD Educational Leadership Advisory Council, CLES, WSU (February 2017 - Present)

• Member of Educational Psychology Advisory Council, CLES, WSU (August 2014 - Present)

• Member of Curriculum Committee, College of Education, WSU (August 2015 鈥� Present)

• Member of Advisory Steering Committee, College of Education, WSU (August 2015 鈥� May 2019)

• Member of Graduate Showcase Organizing Committee, College of Education, WSU (Sept. 2016 鈥� May 2018)

• Member of Social Psychology (in English) Examination Committee (1997-2002)
• Member of EFL-Teacher Work and Thesis Assessment Committee (1998-2003)
• Member of Unified Testing of English, English Teacher Training Colleges Consortium (1998)
• Coordinator of Academic and Critical Reading (2nd Year) Comprehensive Exams (1994-2003)
• Representative of English Teacher Training College/ETTC in Warsaw in the Center for Teaching Excellence Council [Centralny Osrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli/CODN] in Warsaw (1999-2001)
• Counselor of Student Affairs (1st Year students), English Teachers Training College, University of Warsaw
• Vice-Chair of the Recruitment Committee, English Teachers Training College, University of Warsaw (1996)
• Member of PRINCE Warsaw Cluster, University of Warsaw (1998)

Service to the Profession:

• Editorial Board Member [Scientific Council] of the Education [Edukacja] Quarterly. The Institute for Educational Research (2018-Present)

• Reviewer for Discourse Processes, journal of the Society for Text & Discourse (November 2019 鈥� Present)

• Reviewer for AERA Teacher Education Division K (August 2019 - Present)

• Reviewer for AERA Learning and Instruction Division C: Literacy Section (2012-Present)

• Reviewer for the Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (JALPP)

• Reviewer for the National Council for the Teachers of English Assembly for Research (2017-2019)

• Reviewer for Psychology of Language and Communication Journal

• Ability Ally Certificate for Accessibility Training for Faculty. 麻豆传媒映画出品.
• Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching (2012), Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Teaching Certification (TESOL) issued by the Ministry of Education, following a teaching internship/ practicum and pedagogic program, conferred upon M.A. in English Studies, University of Warsaw, June 1992
• Oxford-ARELS Diploma Exam in Spoken English and Comprehension (Hastings, U.K, 1999)
• Numerous Participation Certificates in international (U.K., Hungary, USA), regional and local workshops, educational programs, conferences (most recently in the USA, Valencia, Spain - 2013, Cracow, Poland - 2011, Barcelona, Spain -2009, or Gothenburg, Sweden - 2007)

• Fluent English and Polish
• French (high-intermediate), moderate Czech, Russian, Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian and Spanish
• Computer skills: Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, Access, Publisher; classroom technology incl. Wimba/Audacity; Illuminate; PBworks/ PBwiki, blogs; transcribing and qualitative analysis software 鈥� Transtool, NVIVO 1.2- 8, NUDIST, PINNACLE; InqSCRIBE: PYTHON: statistical packages - SPSS, R, SAS.
• Fast-typing skills, short-hand writing in Polish (certified and licensed)

• American Association for Applied Linguistics, AAAL

• American Association for Behavioral and Social Sciences, AABSS

• American Counseling Association, ACA

• American Educational Research Association, AERA

• Association of Language Testers in Europe, ALTE

• American Psychological Association/APA, Div. 15 鈥� Educational Psychology & Div. 17 鈥� Society for Counseling Psychology

• International Pragmatics Association, IPrA

• Literacy Research Association, LRA

• National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition, NCIC

• National Council of the Teachers of English Assembly for Research, NCTEAR

• Society for Text and Discourse, ST&D

• April 2018 鈥� College of Education/ College of Applied Studies Research Award. 麻豆传媒映画出品 State University ($500).

• December 2017-December 2018 鈥� University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA). Internal grant for the study project 鈥淢indfulness, intersubjectivity, and emphatic affinity in speech-language pathology counseling discourses鈥�, 麻豆传媒映画出品 ($4,500).

• May-August 2017 鈥� Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS). Internal grant for the study 鈥淢indfulness, intersubjectivity and empathic affinity in counseling trainees鈥� professional discourses鈥�, 麻豆传媒映画出品 ($3,810).

• December 2015 鈥� College of Education Technology Grant for Online Course Development, 麻豆传媒映画出品.

• April 2014 鈥� Early Career Award granted by AERA Division H: Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools.

• April 2012 - Awarded Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching (2012), Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• April 2011 鈥� Center for the Study of Reading Conference Panel Award (AERA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10
• August 2010 - Hardie鈥檚 Conference Award, UIUC, (paper presentation for the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL)
• 2010 - University of Illinois 鈥淟ist of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students鈥�, Center for Teaching Excellence, Urbana-Champaign, IL
• June 2009 鈥� Hardie鈥檚 Conference Award, UIUC, (the International Learning Conference in Barcelona, Spain)
• April 2010 - Slavic Department Talent Show live performance with Latawce family band and the Polish and Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian classes instructed/ co-instructed at the UIUC; Head鈥檚 Honorary mention
• 2009 鈥� University of Illinois award 鈥淟ist of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students鈥�, Center for Teaching Excellence, Urbana-Champaign, IL
• April 2009 鈥� Slavic Department Talent Show Co-organizer and live performer with 鈥淟atawce鈥� family band, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/UIUC, IL
• Jan. 2009 鈥� May 2010, Polish-in-the-Slavic-Context/ Central European Conversation Table & Movie Night series鈥� organization, in collaboration with a Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/UIUC, IL
• July 2007 鈥� Psychology Department Conference Award, University of Warsaw (paper presentation at the International Pragmatics Association/IPrA, Gothenburg, Sweden)
• 1991- 2006 Participation as a translator in Polish and International Folk Festivals in Zakopane, Australian Embassy in Warsaw and the National Agency of Land and Village Restructuring in Warsaw, Poland
• 1994-2003 Honorable director鈥檚 mention for Coordination of Academic Reading for II Year Students at the English Teachers Training College (ETTC), University of Warsaw
• 1998 - Delineation and Implementation of the Unified Testing of English at the ETTC, University of Warsaw
• 1998 鈥� Grant within the SOCRATES program (in the pursuit of doctoral research) 鈥� supporting English Language Teachers in Europe, post-graduate educators and examiners program at the Thames Valley University, London, the United Kingdom
• 1997 - SOCRATES Program Grant for Conference participation and workshop at the International Conference for the Educators of English in the Carpathian Euro-Region, University of Debrecen, Hungary
• 1996 - Individual Award of the President of the University of Warsaw 鈥� in recognition of the outstanding work in the Recruitment Committee, at the English Teachers Training College
• 1992 鈥� Teaching of English (as a second language) Certification, upon MA degree conferral