Natalia Czopek
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-3127
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University, Department of Portuguese Studies
Poland
Bio Statement:
Natalia Czopek graduated in Hispanic Philology (specialisation in Linguistics) from the Jagiellonian University, where she completed her MA thesis entitled Implantação e situação actual da língua portuguesa em África (The establishment and current status of the Portuguese language in Africa). In the academic year 2002/2003, she studied at the University of Coimbra. In 2009, she obtained her PhD degree with a dissertation supervised by Professor Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz entitled O subjuntivo / o conjuntivo como um dos meios de expressão de modalidade nas línguas espanhola e portuguesa (The subjunctive as one of the means of expressing modality in Spanish and Portuguese). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies at the Jagiellonian University, where she teaches practical Portuguese language courses, Portuguese descriptive grammar (morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics), and undergraduate linguistic seminars. In 2021, she published the monograph O fenómeno de transferência interlinguística gramatical na aprendizagem do português L3 no contexto do ensino superior polaco. O caso do modo conjuntivo (The phenomenon of grammatical interlinguistic transfer in learning Portuguese as an L3 in the context of Polish higher education: the case of the subjunctive). Since 1 October 2023, she has served as Head of the Department of Portuguese Studies at the Jagiellonian University.