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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl

Editors: Editor: Miros aw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz)

Assistant to the Editor: Jakub Bielak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Mariusz Kruk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz)

Vol. 1 No. 4 December 2011

Editorial Board:

Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia) Larissa Aronin (Trinity College, Dublin) Simon Borg (University of Leeds) Piotr Cap (University of ód ) Anna Cie licka (Texas A&M International University, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Kata Csizer (Eötvös University, Budapest) Maria Dakowska (University of Warsaw) Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London) Krystyna Dro dzia -Szelest (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Rod Ellis (University of Auckland) Danuta Gabry -Barker (University of Silesia) Rebecca Hughes (University of Sheffield) Hanna Komorowska (University of Warsaw, SWPS) Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan) Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of ód ) Jan Majer (University of ód ) Anna Micho ska-Stadnik (University of Wroc aw) Anna Ni egorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Terrence Odlin (Ohio State University) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) François Pichette (University of Quebec) Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (Opole University) Vera Regan (University College, Dublin) Heidemarie Sarter (University of Potsdam) Pawe Scheffler (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Michael Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) Linda Shockey (University of Reading) Teresa Siek-Piskozub (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) David Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin) odzimierz Sobkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna ) Merrill Swain (University of Toronto) Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of ód ) Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia)

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EDITOR:

Miros aw Pawlak

ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR: Jakub Bielak

Mariusz Kruk

Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak

Cover design: Joanna Dudek Typesetting: Piotr Bajak ISSN 2083-5205 eISSN 2084-1965 Published by:

Department of English Studies

Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Kalisz Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna Contact information:

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fax +48 62 7645721

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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz Volume 1, Number 4, December 2011 http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl

Notes on Contributors

Mahnaz Afzali has obtained her MA in TEFL from Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Iran, and is a secondary school teacher. She has been teaching English to young learners for five years and her research interests include language teaching and young learners, language teaching and the re-lated strategies, and classroom assessment.

Contact details: (e-mail: info@alitrade.net)

Ma gorzata Baran- ucarz received her PhD in applied linguistics in 2004 with a dissertation entitled Field Independence as a Predictor of Success in Foreign

Language Pronunciation Acquisition and Learning. She is an assistant professor

at the University of Wroc aw and since 1998 has been a teacher at the Teacher Training College in Wroc aw. Her main areas of interest are methodology of FL teaching, SLA (particularly individual learner differences and FL pronunciation acquisition), psycholinguistics, and phonetics and pronunciation pedagogy.

Contact details: (e-mail: mbaran-lucarz@ifa.uni.wroc.pl)

Adriana Biedro received her PhD in applied linguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna , Poland, in 2003. She is an assistant professor at the English Philology Department of Pomeranian University, S upsk, Poland. Her fields of interest include applied linguistics and SLA theory and research. Her research focuses on individual differences in SLA, in particular, foreign language apti-tude and cognitive and personality factors in gifted L2 learners.

Contact details: Department of English Philology, Pomeranian University,

owia ska 8, 76-200 S upsk, Poland (e-mail: adrianabiedron@wp.pl)

Marcin Jaroszek is a senior lecturer at the Institute of English Studies of Jagiellonian University. He was awarded his PhD in humanities in 2009. That year he was also appointed Assistant to the Head of the Teacher Training

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lege of Jagiellonian University. Since October 2010 he has been acting in the capacity of the Coordinator for Student and Educational Affairs for the English Philology with the German language programme offered by the English Philol-ogy Department of Jagiellonian University as well as Head of the EFL and Lin-guistics Section at the O wi cim State School of Higher Professional Education. His major research interests include spoken discourse analysis and its applica-bility to classroom contexts.

Contact details: Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, ul. prof. S.

ojasiewicza 4, 30-001 Kraków, Poland (e-mail: marcin.jaroszek@uj.edu.pl) Mojgan Rashtchi is Associate Professor in the TEFL Department at Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Iran. She has published several articles in the field of language teaching and learning both in Iran and internationally. She has also published a number of books on teaching English to children and adults. Her main areas of interest include first language acquisition, critical thinking, philosophy for children, and language teaching methodology.