Anna Socha
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.
In September 2010 I came to Sheffield to join the department of Russian and
Slavonic Studies as a lector in Polish. Previously, I have taught Polish for
foreigners at all levels of proficiency in Sweden (Stockholm University) and
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]