The University of Warsaw (UW, 1816) – a public research-oriented HEI, Poland’s largest & finest university. From its beginning it has played a major role in the intellectual, political, cultural life of Poland, and is recognized worldwide as a leading academic centre in Central Europe. It has 21 faculties, 31 independent teaching & research units; 47,600 students (incl. 3,200 PhD), 3,400 post-diploma learners; 7,100 staff incl. 3,500 researchers/teachers; 150 study programs in Humanities, Earth, Social, Natural Sciences at first/second/third cycles (Bachelor/Master /Doctoral levels), 5-year Master studies in Law, Psychology; 23 degree programs in English; 25 Joint Master Programs; hundreds of courses in foreign languages, vocational training, e-learning, summer education.
UW participates actively in
UW is a member of international associations & networks, i.a. EUA, UNICA, HUMANE, NOHA, BSRUN.
The Institute of Applied Linguistics (ILS), University of Warsaw, is an independent research and training unit, educating translators, linguists and foreign language teachers.
The Institute’s staff members conduct research in the field of linguistics (communication theory, language teaching and translation studies), interdisciplinary approaches to language and society, as well as in areas pertaining to cultural studies and literary theory. The following subfields of linguistics are of particular interest to our staff: discourse analysis, text-type analysis, foreign language teaching, grammar, contrastive grammar, cognitive linguistics, text linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, semantics, semiotics, sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, terminology and terminography, conference interpreting, translation studies and specialised translation.
Participating staff