Flying School of Linguistics Applied

24/04/2023

‼️REMINDER‼️

This is a gentle reminder that on April 27th, at 11.30 as usual, room 3.142, we will have our second EEG data analysis session with Kalinka Timmer.

You can participate both in person and online.
The Zoom link is here:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/91249331886?pwd=M1NqMnNJaXhOYjNxek9MUDhxTmZIZz09

Meeting ID: 912 4933 1886
Passcode: 374639

07/03/2023

We are sorry to inform you that the EEG workshop scheduled for the 9th March will be cancelled.

The group workshop will take place on the 23rd of March.

We will also try to organise an additional session in April for those who cannot come on March 23rd.

17/02/2023

Short-term vacancy in Horizon 2020 project

🟢Looking for: a candidate with a Master’s degree who can already be a Ph.D. student (but without the degree awarded yet)

🟢Duration: three/four-month position from April/May-July 2023

🟢Place: University of Warsaw, Poland

🟢Topic: How motor and vocal coordination shape a child’s cognitive, emotional, and language development with correlational analyses

🟢Application deadline: 6 March, 12:00 pm

🟢Anouncement: http://psych.uw.edu.pl/2023/02/01/konkurs-na-stanowisko-asystenta-badawczego-marie-sklodowska-curie-early-stage-researcher-call-for-applications-for-a-position-of-a-research-assistant-marie-sklodowska-curie-early-stage-researcher/

🟢The Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, is accepting applications for a full-time Early Stage Researcher position for a maximum of four months (April-July 2023). The position is part of SAPIENS, a pan-European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (EU Horizon 2020 Programme), which aims to investigate how the dynamics of early social exchanges support the development of the social brain (see: www.sapiens-itn.eu).
The candidate employed for this position has a Master’s degree and can already be enrolled in a Ph.D. program but has not received the doctoral degree yet. Based on an existing dataset, the candidate will investigate how motor and vocal coordination shape a child’s cognitive, emotional, and language development with correlational analyses. The candidate will write a report based on the findings with the possibility of writing an article. As the job is only short-term, we are looking for candidates with experience with correlational analyses and writing articles that can work fast and independently.

🟢Application deadline: 6 March, 12:00 pm

🟢Anouncement: http://psych.uw.edu.pl/2023/02/01/konkurs-na-stanowisko-asystenta-badawczego-marie-sklodowska-curie-early-stage-researcher-call-for-applications-for-a-position-of-a-research-assistant-marie-sklodowska-curie-early-stage-researcher/

🟢Questions can be directed to Kalinka Timmer [email protected]

🟢Kalinka Timmer (University of Warsaw, Poland) and Emily Jones (Birkbeck College – University of London, United Kingdom)

17/02/2023

SCHEDULE OF EEG WORKSHOPS IN SPRING/SUMMER 2023

Spring/summer 2023 – hands-on session

This semester the meetings will take place in room 3.142 (3rd floor, new part of the building, Dobra 55).

🟢23.02 – EEG workshop
🟢9.03 and 23.03 – 1st EEG hands on session in two smaller groups (either one or the other date)
🟢13.04 – EEG - Data analysis
🟢27.04 – EEG - Data analysis

06/12/2022

🔵Wanna listen to the presentations about our studies? Then join us tomorrow at the 1st Humanities Congress at Dobra 55!

🔵We will talk about our research on learning vocabulary and grammar in the third language (L3)

❓When? 7.12.2022
❓What time? 12:00 – 14:00
❓Where? Dobra 55, Warsaw, room: 1.120

The Experimental Linguistics Laboratory of the Faculty of Modern Languages (Experimental LingLab UW) will present their research at the 1st international humanities society identity congress (uw.edu.pl).

Research Group Session 1: Multilingualism: Learning vocabulary and grammar in the third language (L3)
Session devoted to the question of learning the third language and a potential impact of other languages on the acquisition of L3 lexicon and grammar. The questions to be considered are, among others, the adaptation of Vocabulary Knowledge Scale to measure L3 lexical learning and the raising awareness of cross-linguistic similarity to benefit from cognates.
Experimental Linguistics Laboratory
Multilingualism: Learning Vocabulary and Grammar in the Third Language (L3)
Adapting the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale to measure L3 lexical learning
A. Otwinowska-Kasztelanic, A. Ambroziak (University of Warsaw)

Does cumulative L1-L2-L3 lexical similarity impact learners’ L3 word knowledge in online and offline tasks?
A. Otwinowska-Kasztelanic, B. Silva (University of Warsaw), M. Foryś-Nogala (Academy of Economics and Human Sciences)

Learning L3 words: raising awareness of cross-linguistic similarity to benefit from L1-L2-L3 cognates and L2-L3 cognates
A. Otwinowska-Kasztelanic (University of Warsaw) O. Broniś (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw), A. Janczarska (University of Warsaw)

Researching individual differences in L3 acquisition through a novel miniature language – MiniItaliano
M. Foryś-Nogala (Academy of Economics and Human Sciences), O. Broniś (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw), A. Janczarska (University of Warsaw)

More info:

02/12/2022

Participants wanted!
If you are between 18 and 45 years old, speak English at level of B2 and above, and are NOT a student or graduate of applied linguistics or translation studies, come and take part in our new eye-tracking study!
You will get a chance to see a fancy eye tracker, talk about your audiovisual translation preferences in a short interview and grab a PLN 50 Empik voucher - very handy for Xmas!
How can you sign up? Email Sonia at [email protected] today!

01/04/2022

Those of you who had no chance to attend the presentation by the AVT Lab - no worries! - You can access the recording on the official YouTube channel of the Multilingualism Research Hub here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rGsCtx2FY&list=PLckUqdOrhtbECllHvPVXwVrDLjaqo85P3&index=5

Also - stay tuned and follow the Multi-R-Hub website https://multirhub.idub.uw.edu.pl/ for more seminars to come!

15/03/2022

🔵Experimental Linguistics Lab presentation 🔵

The Experimental Linguistics Lab presented the research on the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar in the L2 and L3, starting from cognate vocabulary and finishing with a miniature language MiniItaliano created for experimental purposes.

Check out the videos!
Studying vocabulary acquisition: dr hab. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-D2R1Dt48&ab_channel=InicjatywaDoskona%C5%82o%C5%9Bci%E2%80%93UczelniaBadawczaUW
Studying grammar: dr Małgorzata Foryś-Nogala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD1ts37YRto&ab_channel=InicjatywaDoskona%C5%82o%C5%9Bci%E2%80%93UczelniaBadawczaUW

dr hab. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic

15/03/2022

🟩Launching the Multilingualism Research Hub🟩

The launch meeting took place on the 14th January 2022, at the Faculty of Modern Languages (Dobra 55, Warsaw). You can see the recording from a meeting on a YouTube channel.

During the meeting the following topics were covered:
➡️Multilingualism as an object of research
➡️Goals of IDUB Action II 3.7
➡️Who are we? Why the Multi-R-Hub and how to achieve the goals of IDUB II 3.7?
➡️Research plans and seminars in the summer term 2022
➡️Networking opportunities
➡️Guest lecture by dr Katarzyna Wojtylak “Linguistic Research Skills – experiences from the Amazon”

dr hab. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic