Anna Socha-Michalik

BA, MA in Polish Philology (UJ Krakow)
MA in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language (UJ Krakow)

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 7409

email : a.socha@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

After studying German and Polish for my BA, I earned an MA in Polish Philology and an MA in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 2009. Since then, I have been working towards a PhD in linguistics at the same university.

I have re-joined the department of Russian and Slavonic Studies as a lector in Polish in September 2013, having worked here previously from 2010 to 2012. I have also previously taught Polish for foreigners at all levels of proficiency in Sweden (Stockholm University), Poland (Jagiellonian University).

Research Interests

Recently, a class of indeclinable nouns has emerged in Polish, otherwise a language with a fairly elaborate and rigid case system. Is this to be considered symptomatic of a broader typological transformation in Polish grammar? My PhD research will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of this question.

Apart from my fascination with the wonderful world of Polish morphosyntax, I am also interested in teaching methodologies for Polish as a foreign language.

Teaching

My teaching at the Department includes both language classes and content
modules:

• RUS123/124 Beginners' Polish
• RUS125/126 History of East Central Europe I, II
• RUS309/310 Polish Intermediate I, II
• RUS250 Studies in Polish Culture
• RUS350/351 Polish Intermediate I, II
• RUS383/384 Varieties of Written and Spoken Polish I, II

Publications

• A. Socha, Polszczyzna- język ojczysty czy język drugi? Nauczanie języka polskiego w Szwecji i metody je wspomagające, [w:] „Studenckie Zeszyty Językoznawcze”, red. M. Mycawka i M. Rittner, Kraków 2010.
• A. Socha, Indeklinabilia rzeczownikowe w dydaktyce języka polskiego jako obcego, [w:] Nowe perspektywy w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego, red. K. Birecka, K. Taczyńska, Toruń 2010.
• A. Socha, Metoda projektu w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego. Teoria a praktyka, [w:] Nowe perspektywy w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego 2, Toruń 2011 (in press)
• A. Socha, Oswajanie polskiej leksyki – nomina propria w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego , Lublin 2012 (in press)

Conference Talks

• March 2012- Indeclinable Nouns on the Rise in Polish. A corpus study of foreign toponyms [Cambridge]
• September 2011 – Oswajanie polskiej leksyki – nomina propria w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego [UMCS, Lublin]
• April 2011 - Indeclinabile Nouns in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language [Cambridge ]
• March 2010 - Loanwords in Polish [Toruń]
• May 2009 - Second Language Acquisition- Polish children in Sweden [Czestochowa]