Joanna Stanek
Polish Language Teachers and Tutors Online

About me:

I’m optimistic. I like to be surrounded by people who emit positive energy and at the same time I try to share my joy with them. What I appreciate most in being a teacher is the contact with other people. I adore travelling and discovering new places, sometimes with a guidebook in hand or more often by absorbing their special atmosphere with all my senses. I’m passionate about theatre, I collect masks, I love South-American literature, small cinemas, bicycle and mountain trips, picnics behind the walls of old castles and long sessions of charades or board games with my friends. I get lots of joy and satisfaction when playing with children.

Qualifications and experience:

I hold a degree in Polish Philology from Jagiellonian University, with a specialization in Theater Studies, as well as a postgraduate degree in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language from the University of Silesia. My journey with teaching foreigners has been ongoing since 2007. During this time, I have mainly taught at the Glossa Language School, both in-person and online, conducting individual and group classes at all levels of proficiency. I am the author of the textbook "Fonetyka, polski w praktyce" (Polish Phonetics in Practice), co-author of the teacher’s textbooks for the 'POLSKI krok po kroku' series, and have contributed numerous exercises and materials available on the e-polish.eu platform. I have also conducted many highly popular in-person trainings in Poland and abroad, as well as methodological webinars for teachers.

Methods of teaching

In the lesson I focus on communication. I speak English, a bit of French and Russian but in the lesson – in order to make my students dive into the Polish language – I only use gestures and facial expression. With a variety of games and authentic situations role-plays I motivate my students to speak Polish, even if they still have limited vocabulary. I try to make them feel as if they were in a real Polish restaurant, a shop or a post office. I know how important it is to extend and memorise vocabulary so I don’t forget about revisions. Without proper pronunciation, communication can be very difficult, so I often turn to various phonetic exercises.. But above all I’m sensitive about individual needs of my students and I’m willing to adapt teaching materials as well as the way I manage each lesson to their interests and expectations.

Availability

Teacher Joanna Stanek is available on the dates listed below. They are already in your time zone which is: GMT.

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1 lekcja = 50 minut