Editorial Team



Editor-in-chief

Prof. Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Danuta Gabryś-Barker is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Psycholinguistics at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, where she lectures in applied linguistics, second language acquisition and multilingualism. She has published a couple of books, edited twenty monographic volumes and approximately two hundred articles nationally as well as internationally. Prof. Gabryś-Barker has been the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Multilingualism (Taylor & Francis/Routledge) since 2010 and the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition (University of Silesia Press) since 2015. She has been an active member of several scholarly associations, among them the International Association of Multilingualism since its foundation and the member of the Board from 2010 to 2018. She has also been the co-organiser of the International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition in Szczyrk (University of Silesia) for well over twenty years.

Prof. Adam Stanisław Wojtaszek, Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Adam Wojtaszek, PhD, D.Sc. is Associate Professor and the director of the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His research interests encompass linguistic pragmatics, meaning encoding, specialised registers, advertising discourse, language of persuasion, and language acquisition. He has published two books on advertising discourse, as well as a number of articles on the topic. He is also the co-editor of a number of books within the broadly understood language acquisition studies: Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on SLA (2010), The Acquisition of L2 Phonology (2011a), Individual Learner Differences in SLA (2011b), Aspects of Culture in Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning (2011c), Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective (2014), and Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self (2017). Together with prof. Danuta Gabryś-Barker he acts as editor in chief of the SCOPUS-indexed journal Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition (est. 2015), published by the University of Silesia Press. He is one of the long-standing co-organisers of the annual International Conference on Foreign / Second Language Acquisition – ICFSLA, one of the leading conferences on the topic organised in Poland.

Assistant editors

Dr Dagmara Gałajda, Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Dr Paweł Zakrajewski, Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

The TAPSLA Editorial Board

Larissa Aronin (Oranim College of Higher Education/ Trinity College, Dublin)
Jasone Cenoz Iraqui (University of the Basque Country, Donostia – San Sebastian)
Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin)
Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls)
Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck)
Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/ University of Warsaw)
Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney)
Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/ State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin)
Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (University of Opole, Opole)
Andrzej Porzuczek (University of Silesia, Katowice)
David Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin/ University of Pannonia, Veszprem)
Eva Vetter (University of Vienna, Vienna)
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź, Łódź)
Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia, Katowice)