Iwona Dronia, Agnieszka Ślęzak-Świat

Iwona Dronia, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She received her PhD and habilitation in Linguistics from the University of Silesia. Her main areas of interest are SLA theory and research, discourse analysis (especially academic teacher discourse), development of pragmatic competence and cross-cultural communication. Recent publications include Communicating with Generation Z. The development of pragmatic competence of advanced Polish users of English (2022) and “Maintaining respectful? communication by Generation Z students. The case of written discourse in the academic settings” in Language, culture, identity. Between ethnolinguistics and ethnomethodology (2022).

Agnieszka Ślęzak-Świat, an assistant professor at the University of Silesia (Institute of Linguistics) in Katowice, Poland, where she completed her PhD on components of strategic competence in advanced language users. She specializes in applied linguistics, language education and foreign language teacher training. focuses in her research work on the reading skills set in the context of reading popular versus specialist texts. Her recent publications include Development of digital literacy: translanguaging and transmedia note taking formats for academic reading (2022) and Specialist texts’ readers—super-smart society’s backbone (2021).