Prof. Jan Rusiecki

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Friday, 12.30 - 14.00

Diplomas and degrees:

• MA, University of Warsaw, 1950
• Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, University of London, 1958
• PhD, University of Warsaw, 1970
• 'Habilitation' (upper doctorate), University of Warsaw, 1984
• Full professorship, University of Warsaw, 1998

Scholarships and fellowships:

• 1957 - 1959 - British Council scholarship: University of London Institute of Education, and University of Durham (England).
• 1971/72 - Fulbright grant: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington
• 1978/79 - Longman Fellowship: University College London
• 1985 (February - July) - Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

Teaching and administrative duties:

• 1950-1957 i 1959-1960 - Teaching English at a secondary school and at university - level schools in Warsaw
• 1960/61 - Research assistant at University College London
• Since 1961 - Teaching and research at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw (since retirement in 1996, part-time).
• 1969-1982 and 1985-1991 - Founding, and then directing the Applied English Linguistics Division of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• 1978 - 1984 - 1978-1984 Director of the Institute of Eglish Studies, University of Warsaw.In 1986/87 (winter semester), visiting professorship at the University of Hamburg (Germany)
• 1960/61 - Research assistant at University College London
• At present - as well as during several periods in the past - chair of the Institute Council at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Since October 1999 - professorship at the Higher School of Marketing and Foreign Languages in Katowice

Research interests:

• Syntax and semantics of Modern English (also treated contrastively, in comparison with Modern Polish). In particular: the semantics of adjective comparison, generic use of determiners, conditional sentences, categorization of verbs, the grammar and pragmatics of forms of address (in English and Polish)
• The influence of English upon Polish, both at the lexical and the syntactic level
• C. Second-language acquisition and learning (in particular, computer-assisted language learning)

Awards, medals, and orders:

• A share in a collective second-class award of the Minister of Education: 1965. Individual award (third-class) of the Minister of Education: 1985
• Gold Cross of Merit, Medal of the National Education Commission (of the 18th c.), [Knight of] the Polonia Restituta Order, Cross of the Warsaw Uprising

Courses taught (since 1960):

• English phonetics and phonology
• The grammar of English (also from a contrastive point of view)
• Semantics
• Language acquisition
• Language teaching methodology
• Theory and practice of teaching English
• Language testing
• 'Practical English': classes in communication in English
• MA seminars
• PhD seminars

List of publication (a selection):

A. Linguistics: English and Polish

Books

• Front-placed Clauses and Parenthetic Clauses in Present-Day Spoken English Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego [University of Warsaw Publications]. 1971
• Adjectives and Comparison in English: A Semantic StudyLondon: Longman. 1985

Articles (a selection)

• 'Studies in the correspondence of prosodic to grammatical features in English'. (Co-authors: Randolph Quirk, Anne P. Duckworth, J. Svartvik, A.J.T. Colin.) In Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Linguists, Cambridge, Mass., 1962. The Hague: Mouton and Co. 1964: 679-691
• 'The development of contrastive linguistics'Interlanguage Studies Bulletin (Utrecht). Vol. l/l (1976): 12-44
• 'Latent bilingualism' Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Vol. 12 (1980): 79-88
• The semantics of antonymic pairs of adjectives: elicitation test evidence from English and Polish'. In: Kastovsky, Dieter and Aleksander Szwedek (eds)Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries, Vol. 2: Descriptive, Contrastive and Applied Linguistics . Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986: 1427-1441
• 'Conditionals: fact vs. hypothesis' (abstract of a paper). In: Kühlwein, Wolfgang und Berndt Spillner (eds), Sprache und Individuum, Tübingen: Gunter Harr Verlag, 1988: 106-107
• 'Generic sentences, classes of predicate, and definite generic noun phrases'. In: Daniel Weiss and Maciej Grochowski (eds) Words are Physicians for an Ailing Mind . München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1991: 363-370
• "Postawy wobec języka w Anglii i w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki Północnej dawniej i dziś" ['Attitudes towards the (native) language in England and in the United States, formerly and today']. In Normalizacja języka w krajach Zachodu ,['Standardisation of language in the western world']. Pod red. Andrzeja Markowskiego i Jadwigi Puzyniny [Edited by Andrzej Markowski and Jadwiga Puzyna]. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper [Semper Publishers], 1994: 9-28
• 'Friends true and false; or a contrastive approach to the lexicon'. In: Janusz Arabski, ed. Time for Words. Studies in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002: 71-81
• 'Obscene and scatological words and expressions in English and Polish: a contrastive study' (Co-authored with Magdalena Kizeweter) PASE Papers, 2005 [in press].

B. Methodology of foreign language learning and teaching

Book

• O nauczaniu języków obcych ['On teaching foreign languages']. Warsaw: Państwowe Zakłady Wydawnictw Szkolnych [State Coursebook Publishing House], 1964

Articles (a selection)

• Kontrola i ocena pracy uczniów w pierwszych latach nauczania języka obcego" ['Control and assessment of learners' work in the first years of teaching a foreign language']. In: Z zagadnień nauczania języków obcych (praca zbiorowa) ['Problems in teaching a foreign language' (a collection of papers)]. Warsaw: Państwowe Zakłady Wydawnictw Szkolnych [State Coursebook Publishing House], 1956: 181-199
• "Ćwiczenia w kursie żywej mowy" ['Exercises in a course of living speech']. Języki obce w szkole ['Foreign languages in the school'], 1963: 229-238
• "Gramatyka generatywna, psycholingwistyka, a nauczanie języków obcych" ['Generative grammar, psycholinguistics, and foreign language teaching'], Języki obce w szkole ['Foreign languages in the school'], 2/1973: 91 - 97
• "Czego uczymy, gdy uczymy języka obcego? (Czyli o socjopragmatycznych i sytuacyjnych uwarunkowaniach użycia języka)" ['What do we teach when we teach a foreign language - remarks on the sociopragmatic and situational conditions of language use'] , Języki obce w szkole ['Foreign languages in the school'], 1/1985: 3-10
• "Nauczanie wspomagane komputerem: możliwości i ograniczenia" ['Computer-assisted teaching: potentialities and limitations'], Języki obce w szkole ['Foreign languages in the school'], 4/1991: 312-316
• 'The teaching of English in postwar Poland: the first 35 years (1945-1980). A personal view' The Polish Teacher Trainer Vol. 2, No. 1 (1994): 24-29
• 'Language improvement schemes in teacher training programmes as seen by teachers and teacher trainers' Studia Anglica PosnaniensiaXXIX, 1995: 119-124
• Context, concordance, and what next? Suggestions for computer-assisted teaching of reading in a foreign language' Teaching English with Technology Vol. 2, Issue 2, March 2002

C. Syllabi (published)

• Second language acquisition'. Module no. 7 in: MA in English Language Teaching. Framework and Course Descriptio edited by Anna Murkowska and Hanna Komorowska. (Project financed by the TESSA programme). Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 1997. Str. 91-104. [Also published in Polish.]

D. Language teaching materials (a selection)

• 8 radio courses of English, both for beginners and for intermediate students (co-authored mostly by Janina Smólska, but also by Hilda Andrews, Barbara Szymańska, and others): 1959 - 1980
• S4 printed courses of English, for beginners and for advanced students (co-authored mostly by Janina Smólska, but also by Hilda Andrews, and others); some of them consisted of two or three books, and were accompanied by records or tapes: 1962 - 1981
• A course of English on gramophone records (co-authored by Janina Smólska): 1969
• 4 calendars for learners of English - including one on CD-ROM (co-authored by various persons): 1990 - 2000
• S2 programs for intermediate learners of English, on CD-ROM: 1995 and 1996