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Springer-Verlag. Recently, she has co-edited Positive psychology perspectives on foreign language learning and teaching, Berlin: Springer-Verlag (with Danuta Gabrys-Barker). She is also one of the main organizers of the annual international SLA conference held in Szczyrk, Poland.



Adam Wojtaszek is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of English, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. His major fields of interest include linguistic pragmatics, psycholinguistics and the language of persuasion. He has published two books on advertising language, Deciphering Radio Commercials - A Pragmatic Perspective (2002) and Theoretical Frameworks in the Study of Press Advertisements - Polish, British and Chinese Perspective (2011), as well as a number of articles on the topic. Within the area of psycholinguistics and second language acquisition studies he has co-edited a number of volumes reporting on recent studies and developments. Together with Danuta Gabrys-Barker, he is an editorof a new journal (est. 2015), Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, published by the University of Silesia Press. He is also one of the organizers of the annual international SLA conference held in Szczyrk, Poland and initiated in the mid-1980s by Janusz Arabski.



Pawel Zakrajewski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Silesia in 2015. His scientific interests centre on discourse analysis, rhetoric and communication (especially new media), translation, and cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparative studies. Recently, he has been involved in a number of projects related to genre and linguistic analysis, effective communication, public relations, and ESP translation. Dr. Zakrajewski is also (together with Dr Dagmara Galajda) the co-founder and organizer of the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars (SMYS) - an international conference intended to compare, enhance, and promote linguistic research among Ph.D. candidates from different countries around the globe.