The Celtic Department at IFA is happy to announce that the first installment of a Grant by the Irish Government for the years 2007-2009 was paid in and we can now further develop our unit and contribute to the academic life of the institute.
We would also like to thank our administrative staff for its continuous support.
We are happy to inform that dr Agnieszka Lijewska was awarded a Prize for Best Student Presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism in Stirling, UK. She could enter the competition, as her presentation was based on research she had done as a PhD student. The prize was presented by Tommi Grover, the Managing Director of Multilingual Matters and Britta Hufeisen, the President of the International Association of Multilingualism.
We are glad to announce that the AMU School of English (IFA) was awarded a start-up grant of 32.000 euro by the Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie). The grant will help in launching a BA Dutch programme at the School of English. Taalunie was founded in 1980 by the Netherlands and Belgium/Flanders, and in 2004 Surinam joined the organisation as an associate member. Taalunie is financed by the governments of the three countries and its main area of interest is the promotion of the Dutch language both within and outside the Dutch language area. Moreover, the Taalunie is working on linguistic issues, language policy, education, literature and language-related cultural issues. In 1997 the Dutch Language Union introduced a grant system for the promotion of Dutch studies abroad. The system came fully into force in 2001 at the end of a four-year transitional period. The scheme was developed in order to improve the use made of the available budget for promoting the quality and professionalism of Dutch studies abroad and to make the process of awarding grants clearer and less time-consuming both for the recipients and for the Language Union itself. If you would like to know more about Taalunie, you can have a look at the website: http://taalunieversum.org/en
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Koch
Z przyjemnością informujemy, iż Instytut Filologii Angielskiej otrzymał grant startowy w wysokości 32 000 euro od Niderlandzkiej Unii Językowej (Nederlandse Taalunie). Grant pomoże w uruchomieniu specjalności niderlandzkiej oferowanej w ramach studiów licencjackich w IFA. Unia Językowa została założona w 1980 roku przez Holandię i Flandrię, a w 2004 poszerzyła się o dodatkowego członka - Surinam. Organizacja finansowana jest przez rządy tych trzech krajów, a głównym polem jej zainteresowań pozostaje promowanie języka niderlandzkiego zarówno wewnątrz, jak i poza granicami niderlandzkiego obszaru językowego. Unia Językowa zajmuje się ponadto zagadnieniami językoznawczymi, polityką językową, edukacją, literaturą oraz kwestiami kulturowymi związanymi z językiem. W roku 1997 Niderlandzka Unia Językowa wprowadziła system grantów w celu promowania studiów niderlandzkich za granicą. System ten został ostatecznie wprowadzony w życie w roku 2001 po czteroletnim okresie przejściowym. Program został stworzony w celu efektywniejszego wykorzystania budżetu, który przeznaczono dla promowania studiów niderlandzkich za granicą, a także po to, by sam proces przyznawania grantów był bardziej przejrzysty i mniej czasochłonny zarówno dla odbiorców, jak i dla samej Unii Językowej. Jeżeli chcieliby Państwo uzyskać więcej informacji o Niderlandzkiej Unii Językowej, zapraszamy do odwiedzenia strony internetowej: http://taalunieversum.org/en
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Koch
A project group under IFA's History of English department has made a successful bid to Nauka Polska for a substantial grant to fund its work on an electronic research edition of Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale. As it is envisioned, the final product will contain not only transcripts and images of all fifteenth-century manuscript copies of the text but also comprehensive databases and analyses of the linguistic forms used, with further features to be added. The project group consists of Professor Marcin Krygier, Drs Hanna Rutkowska, Joanna Bugaj, Piotr Jakubowski, and Jacob Thaisen (coordinator), Magdalena Bator, MA and Justyna Rogos, BA, with the University of Birmingham, UK, as collaborators.
Our colleague Dr Ewa Ciszek has received Prime Minister's Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation. She wrote a dissertation entitled Word derivation in Early Middle English, which will soon be published by Peter Lang. The supervisor was Professor Jacek Fisiak.
Here is a photo from the ceremony.
Radosław Dylewski
One of this year's graduates, Ms Anna Kubisz, succeeded in receiving a scholarship from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Ms Anna Kubisz is going to pursue her career working for the Linguist List. Ms Kubisz wrote her MA thesis under Professor Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk's supervision. In her thesis, she tested the applicability and effectiveness of the Colorado Literacy Tutor in teaching English pronunciation to Polish learners of English. Anna Kubisz is primarily interested in lexicography, CALL and WALL.
