Portrait
Languages
Polish – native speaker
English – native-like competence
Dutch – B2
German – B2
Teaching experience
01/2010 – presentLanguage Center of UZH and ETH Zurich – Dozentin für English
Selected tailor-made workshops for PhD students and postdocs
- Writing Research Articles in Psychology
- Academic Writing for Sociologists
- Writing for Publication in Education
- Writing Skills for Political Sciences
- Media Economics and Management: Publishing in English
- From Academic to Journalistic Text: Bioethics
Selected semester courses
- Writing Research Papers for Publication: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences C1-C2
- Introduction to Writing at Doctoral Level: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences C1
- Writing Your Master’s Thesis: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences C1-C2
Individual coaching in academic writing (one-to-one sessions with academic writers; preparing manuscripts for publication)
Responsible for Self-study Platform for Academic English on Moodle
10/2005 – 07/2009 School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) Poznań, Poland – PhD student
Selected university courses (MA and BA program)
- Didactics of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
- English for Academic Purposes (AEP)
Other responsibilities
- Examination and admission committees
- Supervising trainee teachers; evaluating diploma lessons
Education
10/2005 – 07/2009 – PhD in English linguistics
School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) Poznań, Poland
Title:Predicting the costs of switching between languages in multilingual speakers
10/2003 – 06/2005 – MA in English Linguistics
School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) Poznań, Poland
Title:Lexical processing in bilinguals: Investigating the hierarchical asymmetry model in Polish-English bilinguals
10/2000 – 09/2003 – BA in English Linguistics
School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) Poznań, Poland
Title:Neuroscientific bases of lexical processing
Conference presentations
2018 – XV CercleS International Conference, Poznań, Poland – Millennials write dissertations: The language instructor in a new role of a writing coach
2012 (with S. Milligan and T. Armstrong) – LSP V Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden – Constructing a research-based online learning environment for academic writing: How to avoid a muddle in Moodle
2012 – Blending technology with EAP, BALEAP PIM, Southampton, UK – Student expectations and experience of prototype materials for an online platform in academic writing: Practical solutions for a resource in Moodle
2007 – 17 European Second Language Association Conference, Newcastle, UK – Degree of integration in the bilingual mental lexicon and switching costs
2007 – III Poznań Cognitive Forum, Poznań, Poland – Task-switching in multilingual language users
2006 – XVIII International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, Poland – Wordtype and the asymmetry in language processing in proficient bilinguals
2006 – First Central European Student Conference in Linguistics (CESCL), Budapest, Hungary – The asymmetry in language processing in proficient bilinguals: The wordtype effect
Conference organization
2008 – 1 Poznań Psychological Forum, workshop co-organizer „Different aspects of multilingualism” Poznań, Poland
2007 – 38 Poznań Linguistic Meeting, poster session organizer, Gniezno, Poland
Publications
Cieślicka A, A. Ekert (2009) Investigating asymmetry in lexical processing with proficient Polish-English bilinguals: The lexical decision task. In: Proceedings of the XVIII Conference on Second/Foreign Language Acquisition.
Ekert-Centowska, A. (2007) Task switching in multilinguals – Ph.D. project. In: Proceeding of the III Poznań Cognitive Forum, Poland.