INTERVIEW WITH DR. HALINA SIEROCKA

Authors

  • Nadežda Stojković Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

Abstract

Dr. Halina Sierocka is an ESP expert, she deals with Legal English. She has received double education – in linguistics and law. This makes her so rare, the right person to speak about the controversies inscripted in the very essence of ESP, but also the related fields, like CLIL or EMI. Dr. Halina Sierocka is a lawyer-linguist. She received her MA from the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland, in 2000, and after that received the MA in Applied Linguistics, from the Faculty of Philology, at the same university. Now she has the academic degree of an Associate Professor, and holds the position of the Head of the Bialystok Legal English Centre at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok. Dr. Sierocka is in charge of the development of new courses (commercial and postgraduate ones) and development of materials, creating new projects, research into English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and methodology of language teaching in ESP. She is the author of numerous publications with renowned publishers, has taken part in outstanding domestic and international projects, and has been invited plenary speaker at prestigious conferences and events.

Author Biography

  • Nadežda Stojković, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

    Nadežda Stojković, PhD, Associate Professor, Lecturer of English Language, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia.

    Main areas of interest and research: English for Specific and Academic Purposes, academic writing,  relationship between language and identity, literature.

    Author of textbooks Written and Spoken Communications in English for Science and Technology, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, 2005, and coauthor of English for Students of Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, 2012.

    Author of a chapter in each of the following books: Identity and Difference, Peter Lang Publishers, Switzerland, 2005, Metafrastikes Optikes: Epiloges ke Diaforetikotita. Athens University: Parousia, 2006, Languages for Specific Purposes – Searching for Common Solutions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, Education Landscapes in the 21st Century: Cross-cultural Challenges and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008, Recounting Cultural Encounters, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009, Identity Issues, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2010, ‘Cultural diplomacy as a Form of Intercultural communication’, Cambridge Schoolars Publishing, 2013 (pending), ‘The Liberation of the Self through a Self Imposed Exile’, in The Beauty of Convention, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 (pending).
    Initiator and the President of the Program Committee of the First International Conference on Teaching English for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Univeristy of Niš, 17-19 May, 2013.

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Published

2018-03-08

Issue

Vol. 6, No 1, 2018

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