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Academic Interests and Expertise

Specializations

  • Psychology of Reading, Language and Communication
  • Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Research
  • Language Arts Methods
  • ESL/Bilingual Methods
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Language Testing and Assessment

Research Interests

Interface of language and cognition; psychology of reading, language and communication; metacognition and learning; psycholinguistics and socio-pragmatics of communication; socio-linguistic and psycho-social development; intersubjective, interpersonal and organizational aspects of argumentation and reasoning; instructional moves and discourse; critical thinking; discourse processing; language/literacy testing and assessment

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Latawiec, B. M. (2016). Metacognition and a moving target of reading comprehension: Effective instructional practices and paradigms. In H. Kyuchukov (Ed.), New Trends in the Psychology of Language: Lincom Studies in Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (pp. 107-143). Munich, Germany: Lincom Academic Publisher.

  • Latawiec, B. M., Latawiec, C., & Bokus, B. (2016). Dynamic Assessment of Pan-Slavic Persuasive and Interactive Performance. In H. Kyuchukov (Ed.), New Trends in the Psychology of Language: Lincom Studies in Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (pp. 54-82). Munich, Germany: Lincom Academic Publisher

Journals - Refereed

  • Sekulowicz, M., Boroń-Krupińska, K., Kwiatkowski, P., & Latawiec, B. M. (2020). Sense of coherence, resiliency and coping as correlates of parental burnout in the context of children with autism and other disabilities: The new burnout screening instrument. Niepełnosprawność. Dyskursy Pedagogiki Specjalnej [Disability. Discourses in Special Education], 36, 254-268.

  • Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., & Ma, S. (2017). Socialization via metadiscourse in children’s Collaborative Reasoning discussions and persuasive essays. Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois: Champaign, IL.

  • Ma, S., Anderson, R. C., Lin, T.-J., Zhang, J., Morris, J. A., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., Miller, B. W., Jadallah, M., Scott, T., Sun, J., Grabow, K., Latawiec, B. M., & Yi, F-H. (2017). Instructional influences on
    English language learners' storytelling. Learning and Instruction, 49, 64-80. doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.12.004

  • Ma, S., Zhang, J., Anderson, R.C., Morris, J., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., Miller, B., Jadallah, M., Sun, J., Lin, T-J., Scott, T., Hsu, Y-L., Zhang, X., Latawiec, B., & Grabow, K. (2017). Children’s productive use of academic vocabulary. Discourse Processes, 54, 40-61. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2016.1166889

  • Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., Ma, S., & Nguyen-Jahiel, K. (2016). Influence of Collaborative Discussions on metadiscourse in children’s essay. Text & Talk, 36(1), 23–46. DOI: 10.1515/text-2016-0002.

  • Zhang, X., Anderson, R. C., Morris, J., Miller, B., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., Lin, T-J, Zhang, J., Jadallah, M., Scott, T., Sun, J., Latawiec, B., Ma, S., Grabow, K., & Hsu, Y-L. (2015). Improving children’s competence as decision makers: Constructing effects of collaborative interaction and direct instruction. American Educational Research Journal, 53, 194-223. doi:10.3102/0002831215618663

  • Latawiec, B. (2010). Text structure awareness as a metacognitive strategy facilitating ESL/EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement. International Journal of Learning, Vol. 17(5), 25-48 (www.Learning-Journal.com).
  • Latawiec, B. (2004). Selectivity of Human Memory (book review). Jezyki Obce w Szkole [Foreign Languages in School], 3, 188-192.

Under Review:

  • Latawiec, B. M. Discipline-specific instructional metadiscourse with gestures and epistemic beliefs of pre-service teachers.

  • Latawiec, B. M., Anderson, R. C., & Ma, S. Instructional metadiscourse supporting intersubjectivity, autonomy, argument elaboration and inclusion of quiet/shy children in Collaborative Reasoning discussions.

In progress

  • Latawiec, B.M. & Fiorini, J. Mindfulness, intersubjectivity and empathy in counseling trainees’ professional discourse.

  • Latawiec, B. M., & Sekulowicz, M. (in progress). Mindfulness, intersubjectivity and empathy in American and Polish counseling dyads.

Non-Peer Refereed:

  • Latawiec, B.M. (2012). Metadiscourse in oral discussions and written essays by children exposed to Collaborative Reasoning (Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois online repository. In preparation for publication by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing).
  • Latawiec, B.M. (in preparation). Text structure awareness as metacognitive strategy facilitating ESL/EFL reading comprehension and academic achievement. (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw); based on the longitudinal study, defended as Early Research Project at the Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois (2008), and presented at the International Learning Conference in Barcelona (2009).
Professional Experience

Assistant Professor (August 2015 – Present)

Counseling, Educational Leadership, Educational & School Psychology, Wichita State University, KS

COURSES:

  • CLES 904 – Psychology of Language and Discourse Processes (Hybrid), doctoral level

  • CLES 902 – Psychology of Leadership, Persuasion and Influence (Hybrid), doctoral level

  • CESP 831 - Social Psychology for Educational and Helping Professions (Hybrid)

  • CESP 875 – Practicum in Higher Education Leadership (Hybrid)

  • CLES 802 – Theories of Human Development for Counseling Professionals (Online-Hybrid)

  • CESP 729 – Theories of Early Childhood Development (Hybrid)

  • CESP 728 – Theories of Human Development (Online-Hybrid)

  • CESP 433 – Learning, Assessment, and Evaluation Theory: Evidence-Based Instruction (Online

Visiting Assistant Professor (August 2014 – May 2015)

Counseling, Educational Leadership, Educational & School Psychology, Wichita State University, KS

COURSES:

  • CESP 831 - Social Psychology for Educational and Helping Professionals
  • CESP 728 – Theories of Human Development
  • CESP 728 - Theories of Human Development: Early Childhood
  • CESP 433 - Learning, Assessment, and Eveluation Theory: Evidence-Based Instruction

Visiting Lecturer (August 2012 - May 2013)

Intensive English Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Test Specification and Task-Item Developer (March 2012 - June 2012)

EF/ Education First, HQs in London, United Kingdom & Luzern, Switzerland

Teaching Assistant and Primary Instructor (August 2007 – 2010)

Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Lecturer in Social Psychology, Human Development, and Sociology

(Psychology Department) 1997- 2003

EFL/ESL Teacher–Educator and Teacher-Trainer

(English Department) 2001-2007
University of Social Sciences and Humanities
(former Warsaw School of Social Psychology), Warsaw, Poland

EFL teacher, EFL-methods director and a co-manager

(September 1991 – 2006)
Foreign Languages School "Beyond 2000", Warsaw, Poland

ESL Teacher-Educator and Teacher-Trainer and ESL examiner

(October 1994 – Sept. 2003)
University of Warsaw, English Teachers’ Training College (ETTC), Warsaw, Poland

English teacher

(September 1991- Aug. 1992)
73rd Public High School, Warsaw, Poland

Teacher Trainee Intern

(September 1989 – June 1991)
Primus Inter Pares Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

Awards and Honors

  • April 2018 – College of Education/ College of Applied Studies Research Award. Wichita State University ($500).

  • December 2017-December 2018 – University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA). Internal grant for the study project “Mindfulness, intersubjectivity, and emphatic affinity in speech-language pathology counseling discourses”, Wichita State University ($4,500).

  • May-August 2017 – Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS). Internal grant for the study “Mindfulness, intersubjectivity and empathic affinity in counseling trainees’ professional discourses”, Wichita State University ($3,810).

  • December 2015 – College of Education Technology Grant for Online Course Development, Wichita State University.

  • April 2014 – Early Career Award granted by AERA Division H: Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools.

  • April 2012 - Awarded Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching (2012), Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • April 2011 – Center for the Study of Reading Conference Panel Award (AERA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10
  • August 2010 - Hardie’s Conference Award, UIUC, (paper presentation for the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL)
  • 2010 - University of Illinois “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students”, Center for Teaching Excellence, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  • June 2009 – Hardie’s Conference Award, UIUC, (the International Learning Conference in Barcelona, Spain)
  • April 2010 - Slavic Department Talent Show live performance with Latawce family band and the Polish and Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian classes instructed/ co-instructed at the UIUC; Head’s Honorary mention
  • 2009 – University of Illinois award “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students”, Center for Teaching Excellence, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  • April 2009 – Slavic Department Talent Show Co-organizer and live performer with “Latawce” family band, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/UIUC, IL
  • Jan. 2009 – May 2010, Polish-in-the-Slavic-Context/ Central European Conversation Table & Movie Night series’ organization, in collaboration with a Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/UIUC, IL
  • July 2007 – Psychology Department Conference Award, University of Warsaw (paper presentation at the International Pragmatics Association/IPrA, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • 1991- 2006 Participation as a translator in Polish and International Folk Festivals in Zakopane, Australian Embassy in Warsaw and the National Agency of Land and Village Restructuring in Warsaw, Poland
  • 1994-2003 Honorable director’s mention for Coordination of Academic Reading for II Year Students at the English Teachers Training College (ETTC), University of Warsaw
  • 1998 - Delineation and Implementation of the Unified Testing of English at the ETTC, University of Warsaw
  • 1998 – Grant within the SOCRATES program (in the pursuit of doctoral research) – supporting English Language Teachers in Europe, post-graduate educators and examiners program at the Thames Valley University, London, the United Kingdom
  • 1997 - SOCRATES Program Grant for Conference participation and workshop at the International Conference for the Educators of English in the Carpathian Euro-Region, University of Debrecen, Hungary
  • 1996 - Individual Award of the President of the University of Warsaw – in recognition of the outstanding work in the Recruitment Committee, at the English Teachers Training College
  • 1992 – Teaching of English (as a second language) Certification, upon MA degree conferral
Areas of Service
Committee Work and Local Community Activities
  • Judge for the 16th Annual Graduate Research and Special Projects/GRASP Symposium, WSU (May 2020)

  • Coordinator of Educational Psychology Comprehensive Exam Committee, CLES, WSU (Jan. 2019 - Present)

  • Member of EdD Educational Leadership Advisory Council, CLES, WSU (February 2017 - Present)

  • Member of Educational Psychology Advisory Council, CLES, WSU (August 2014 - Present)

  • Member of Curriculum Committee, College of Education, WSU (August 2015 – Present)

  • Member of Advisory Steering Committee, College of Education, WSU (August 2015 – May 2019)

  • Member of Graduate Showcase Organizing Committee, College of Education, WSU (Sept. 2016 – May 2018)

  • Member of Social Psychology (in English) Examination Committee (1997-2002)
  • Member of EFL-Teacher Work and Thesis Assessment Committee (1998-2003)
  • Member of Unified Testing of English, English Teacher Training Colleges Consortium (1998)
  • Coordinator of Academic and Critical Reading (2nd Year) Comprehensive Exams (1994-2003)
  • Representative of English Teacher Training College/ETTC in Warsaw in the Center for Teaching Excellence Council [Centralny Osrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli/CODN] in Warsaw (1999-2001)
  • Counselor of Student Affairs (1st Year students), English Teachers Training College, University of Warsaw
  • Vice-Chair of the Recruitment Committee, English Teachers Training College, University of Warsaw (1996)
  • Member of PRINCE Warsaw Cluster, University of Warsaw (1998)
Service to the Profession:

  • Editorial Board Member [Scientific Council] of the Education [Edukacja] Quarterly. The Institute for Educational Research (2018-Present)

  • Reviewer for Discourse Processes, journal of the Society for Text & Discourse (November 2019 – Present)

  • Reviewer for AERA Teacher Education Division K (August 2019 - Present)

  • Reviewer for AERA Learning and Instruction Division C: Literacy Section (2012-Present)

  • Reviewer for the Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (JALPP)

  • Reviewer for the National Council for the Teachers of English Assembly for Research (2017-2019)

  • Reviewer for Psychology of Language and Communication Journal

Additional Information
  • Fluent English and Polish
  • French (high-intermediate), moderate Czech, Russian, Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian and Spanish
  • Computer skills: Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, Access, Publisher; classroom technology incl. Wimba/Audacity; Illuminate; PBworks/ PBwiki, blogs; transcribing and qualitative analysis software – Transtool, NVIVO 1.2- 8, NUDIST, PINNACLE; InqSCRIBE: PYTHON: statistical packages - SPSS, R, SAS.
  • Fast-typing skills, short-hand writing in Polish (certified and licensed)