Languages in Action: From Classroom Practices to Societal Visibility

Languages in Action offers multi-perspective insights into language education, professional communication, cross-cultural understanding, and the visibility of language in society. The volume brings together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and practical applications from classrooms, higher education institutions, and public spaces. Readers will find innovative approaches to language learning and teaching, linguistic landscapes, and interdisciplinary research linking emotional expression with identity and migration.

From drama-based pedagogy to multimodal learning environments and the use of social media, the thematic breadth makes this volume a valuable resource for educators, researchers, and anyone interested in how language evolves and functions across contexts.

Published in honour of Professor Danuta Wiśniewska, the book also reflects her person-centred approach, academic vision, and lifelong commitment to action-oriented language education.

Jakub Przybyl, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, researches self-regulation, emotion, and personality in language learning, and explores the foreign language effect in self-related processing.

Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak is an Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her academic work bridges the fields of multilingualism, diversity in education, and discourse analysis, especially offensive language, hate speech, and radicalisation.

Adamczak-Krysztofowicz's research interests are: glottodidactics in general, didactics and methodology of German as a foreign language, culture reflexive learning and communication, Polish-German-Dutch intensive exchange seminars, hate speech as well as tandem learning for rescue services.

Jańczak's research focuses on Polish-German language contact, including intercultural communication and language use in Polish-German families, language contact in border and borderland contexts, immigrant integration, as well as the identity and language practices of linguistic minorities.

Anna Kurzaj's research focuses on Polish-German literary translation, focussing particularly grammatical structures. Currently she works as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.