Dr. Marta Kopinska
Marta Kopinska holds a BA in Ethnolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan (AMU, Poland) and an MA in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings (LAMS) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Dr. Kopinska received her PhD in 2017 within the program ‘Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings’ with a dissertation entitled “The use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Foreign Language Classroom: Students’ attitudes, motivation and L2 Selves” supervised by Prof. David Lasagabaster.
In 2008-2011 she worked at the UPV/EHU as Polish lecturer. During the years 2016-2017 she taught English in Primary Education degree at the Mondragon Unibertsitatea (MU, HUHEZI) and worked as well as a research assistant at the Language and Speech group (LASLAB, UPV/EHU). From the academic year 2017-2018 on
Web of Science ResearcherID: H-8892-2017ORCID: 0000-0003-3382-384X
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, EFL and second/third language acquisition, language attitudes and motivation, multilingual education and CLIL, English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) in tertiary education
Projects
- Language and Speech – Established Research Group (Type A – Excellence) (2022 - 2025)
- English-Medium instruction at university: A study focused on interaction in content lectures (EMIUNI) (2021 - 2025)
- Balancing interaction and L2 grammar learning by children in an EFL context (INGREFL) (2021 - 2025)
- Language and Speech – Established Research Group (Type A – Excellence) (2016 - 2021)
- Interaction and written production. The potential of collaborative writing in the learning of English as a foreign language by primary school learners (2016 - 2020)
- Team teaching in English-Medium instruction programmes at university: Fostering language and content teacher collaboration (2016 - 2020)
- El aprendizaje de contenidos en inglés en educación secundaria y universitaria: un estudio longitudinal de factores afectivos y metodológicos (2013 - 2015)
Books
Journal Papers
- Janire Guerrero Gómez, María Orcasitas-Vicandi, Marta Kopinska. (2024) Enhancing young EFL learners’ written skills: The role of repeated pre-task planning. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. :-. Abstract
- Marta Kopinska, Agurtzane Azkarai Garai. (2020) Exploring young EFL learners’ motivation: individual vs. pair work on dictogloss tasks. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching. 10 (3):607-630. Abstract || PDF
- Marta Kopinska. (2020) Beyond the novelty effect: EFL learners’ attitudes towards ICT use in the classroom. Hungarian Educational Research Journal. 10(1):1-15. Abstract || PDF
- Agurtzane Azkarai Garai, Marta Kopinska. (2020) Young EFL learners and collaborative writing: a study on patterns of interaction, engagement in LREs, and task motivation . System. accepted:-. Abstract
Book Chapters
- Marta Kopinska. (2016) Motivational drive of a technology-based ‘weak’ version of CLIL. Ed.: Lasagabaster, D. and Doiz, A.. Pub.: Peter Lang. Pags: 99-124. Abstract
Conference Papers
- Marta Kopinska, Janire Guerrero Gómez, María Orcasitas-Vicandi. (2024) Exploring the role of young learners’ individual differences in collaborative writing. Early Language Learning Reseach Association (ELLRA 2024) Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. Abstract || PDF
- Janire Guerrero Gómez, Marta Kopinska, María Orcasitas-Vicandi. (2023) “Maria have a nightmare. His dad say to fight his dream”: The impact of form-focused instruction on young EFL learners’ written production. AESLA Mérdia. Abstract
- Agurtzane Azkarai Garai, Marta Kopinska. (2019) Motivation among young EFL learners: Comparing pair and individual work with a dictogloss. Eighth International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching (August 19-21, 2019) TBLT: Insight, Instruction, Outcomes Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada). Abstract
- Agurtzane Azkarai Garai, Marta Kopinska. (2019) Exploring young EFL learners’ patterns of interaction in collaborative writing: Engagement in LREs. Shanghai Center for Research in English Language Education: First Biennial Conference Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai (China). Abstract
- Agurtzane Azkarai Garai, Marta Kopinska. (2019) Level of engagement and patterns of interaction in young EFL learners during collaborative writing. 2nd International Conference on Child Foreign/Second Language Learning (CFSLL): Facing heterogeneity in the young learner classroom Kraków (Poland). Abstract
- Marta Kopinska, Agurtzane Azkarai Garai. (2019) Young EFL learners and motivation: the dictogloss task. AESLA Valladolid. Abstract
- Marta Kopinska, Agurtzane Azkarai Garai. (2018) Motivation and the dictogloss task: a study with young EFL learners. Individual differences in second language learning and teaching II: The individual and the context Konin (Poland). Abstract
- Marta Kopinska. (2016) Native English-speaking teacher vs. non-native teacher supported by technologies: students’ motivation, attitudes and beliefs. 34th International Conference of Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) University of Alicante, Spain. Abstract
- Marta Kopinska. (2015) Technology-based ‘weak’ version of CLIL. 33rd International Conference of Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) Technical University of Madrid, Spain. Abstract
- Marta Kopinska, Ibon Manterola. (2013) Linguistic Autobiographies, Language Attitudes and Multilingualism among Secondary Education Students of the Basque Autonomous Community: Basque, Spanish and English in the Trilingual Framework. XXXI AESLA International Congress La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. Abstract
- Marta Kopinska, Durk Gorter. (2012) Linguistic landscape and linguistic behaviour: language choice and linguistic preferences of Basque-Spanish bilinguals. XXX AESLA International Congress Lleida, Spain. Abstract
- Marta Kopinska, Durk Gorter. (2012) Linguistic landscape and the use, perceptions and preferences of second language speakers. EuroSLA 22 Conference Poznan, Poland. Abstract || PDF
- Marta Kopinska. (2011) Attitudes towards Basque standard (Euskara Batua) and dialects of Basque. XXIX AESLA International Congress Salamanca, Spain. Abstract || PDF