Note on the Author
Ewa Barbara Krawczyk received her PhD from the College of Education specializing in Curriculum and Instruction, Bilingual Education, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (tesol) and Educational Learning Technologies at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Ewa was born and raised in communist and post-communist Poland where she graduated from Teachers’ College of English and was a teacher of English as a foreign language in a public high school in the years 1993–1999. She immigrated to the United States in 1999 where she gained her personal experience through her work with adult individuals with intellectual disabilities in Seattle, Washington and Boston, Massachusetts areas, and homeless, immigrant, and refugee women with children in Seattle. Ewa obtained her educational experience through receiving Bachelor’s degree in American Studies in 2007 and Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics, majoring in Teaching English as a Second Language in 2009, both at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. In spring 2015 Ewa conducted a research for three months in Poland observing and interviewing five English as a foreign language public high school teachers focusing on the ways the teachers manifest their pedagogies in developing their students’ communicative, and cooperative skills with a particular focus on language production, which resulted in publication of this book. Ewa’s interests include multiculturalism, diversity, bilingual education, tesol (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), social justice issues, immigration issues and policies, culture, society, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition and the use of technology in the process of teaching and learning. During the years: 2016–2018 Ewa taught developmental English at the College of the Marshall Islands in Majuro, the capital of the Republic of Marshall Islands, South Pacific. Presently, Ewa lives in Seattle, where she teaches English to immigrants and refugees. Checks Ewa’s other recent publications:
DeCoursey, C. A., & Krawczyk, E. B. (2017). The major in cultural context: Choosing liberal arts in the Marshall Islands. English Language Teaching: Canadian Center of Science and Education, 10(11), 214–228. Retrievable from http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/article/view/71338
Krawczyk, E. B. (2016). Comparative discourse analysis: Dichotomous reality from a polish immigrant’s perspective. In P. W. Orelus (Ed.), Language, race, and power in schools: A critical discourse analysis (Ch. 12, pp. 171–181). New York, NY: Routledge. Routledge Research in Education Series. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Language-Race-Power-Schools-Discourse-ebook/dp/B01N1Q6B02/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1542498859&sr=8-2&keywords=pierre+orelus