Innovation in Language Learning
Petra Jesenská
Institution: Matej Bel University
Country: Slovakia
Petra Jesenská is a university teacher, guarantor of the bachelor's study program of pedagogical sciences, member of the MBU Faculty of Arts committee for research and publishing management.
Petra graduated in British and American Studies from the Prešov University (Prešov, Slovakia) in 2000. Since then, for the last 22 years, she has constantly been working in the field of English language education at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In 2007, she defended her dissertation on Anglicisms in the Daily Press from a Sociolinguistic Aspect (2007, 160 pp.) at the Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovakia). In 2009, she defended the rigorous work Presenting Gender Roles and Stereotypes in Selected English Language Textbooks for Adult Learners (159 pp.) at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, MBU in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In 2013, in the field of general linguistics, she defended her habilitation thesis Interdisciplinary Aspects of Enriching and Cultivating Slovak Vocabulary through Anglicisms at Faculty of Humanities MBU in Banská Bystrica.
Since 2000, Petra has participated in several lecture and study stays and mobility stays abroad in the UK, USA, the Czech Republic and Poland.
In total, so far she has participated in more than 30 domestic and foreign conferences, where she presented the results of her research findings.
Petra leads lectures and seminars in bachelor's, master's, and postgraduate full-time and part-time studies. She teaches academic courses of English Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscape and English Through Literature seminar. In postgraduate studies, she conducts seminars on Scientific and Academic Communication Skills in English Language. As a supervisor, she conducts final bachelor's, master's, and rigorous theses.
Some of her recent publications and papers include:
• Humor v médiách počas súčasnej pandémie (Humor in the media during the current pandemic). In Lingua Viva: a professional journal for the theory and practice of teaching foreign languages and Czech as a foreign language. České Budějovice: University of South Bohemia, 2022. ISSN 1801-1489. Vol. 18, no. 34 (2022), pp. 37-46. ERIH PLUS;
• Jazyková krajina v pedagogickej praxi (Linguisitc Landscape in Pedagogical Practice). In: Theory and practice of training future translatologists and English language teachers III. Proceedings of peer-reviewed papers from the International Online Conference held on 8-9 September 2021 (ed. A. Slatinská), BB: A Grafik, spol. Ltd. in cooperation with KAA FF UMB in BB, 2021, pp. 11 -115. ISBN 978-80-972004-1-1;
• Skúmanie základnej jednotky jazykovej krajiny (Examination of the basic unit of a linguistic landscape). In: From Text To Translation XV Part 2 Linguistic Landscape (eds. A. Ďuricová, J. Lauková), Prague: Jednota tlumočníků a překladatelů, 2021, p. 45-51. ISBN 978-80-7374-132-7 (Part 2);
• The Future of English after Brexit – Tendencies and Perspectives. In 1st Nitra Postgraduate Conference in English Studies: Trends and Perspectives. Conference Proceedings Prague: Verbum, 2020, pp. 18 - 32. ISBN 978-80-87800-65-2 (invited lecture at the domestic conference 24.10.2019 published in the proceedings);
• Teaching Linguistic Landscape to Future English Teachers Supported by the Moodle Application. In: Innovation in language learning : conference proceedings, 15. international conference, 10.-11.11.2022 : hybrid edition.1st ed. Bologna: Filodiritto Publisher, 2022. ISBN 979-12-80225-42-9. - ISSN 2384-9509. - Pp. 61-65. Available at: https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/files/ict4ll/ed0015/FP/8000-ELRN5707-FP-ICT4LL15.pdf;
• Úvodné poznámky na margo výskumu jazykovej krajiny Národnej ulice v Banskej Bystrici. In: Od textu k prekladu 14 (ed. Alena Ďuricová) 2nd part, Linguistic Landscape. 1st ed. Prague: Jednota tlůmočníků a překladatelů, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7374-128-0. Pp. 24-28. Available at: https://www.ff.umb.sk/app/cmsSiteAttachment.php?ID=7945;
• Selected chapters in English lexicology: phraseology and word-formation / Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová, Petra Jesenská; part II. 1st ed. Prešov : Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity, Prešov, 2019. 132 pp. ISBN 978-80-555-2285-2;
• English Vocabulary Stratification. Banská Bystrica: Belianum, 2019, 85 pp. ISBN 978-80-557-1604-6 (university textbook).
Areas of expertise: English lexical semantics, English lexical morphology, sociolinguistics, expression of gender in English and Slovak languages, invisibility of women in language, implementation of gender sensitive language, linguistic landscape.
Petra graduated in British and American Studies from the Prešov University (Prešov, Slovakia) in 2000. Since then, for the last 22 years, she has constantly been working in the field of English language education at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In 2007, she defended her dissertation on Anglicisms in the Daily Press from a Sociolinguistic Aspect (2007, 160 pp.) at the Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovakia). In 2009, she defended the rigorous work Presenting Gender Roles and Stereotypes in Selected English Language Textbooks for Adult Learners (159 pp.) at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, MBU in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In 2013, in the field of general linguistics, she defended her habilitation thesis Interdisciplinary Aspects of Enriching and Cultivating Slovak Vocabulary through Anglicisms at Faculty of Humanities MBU in Banská Bystrica.
Since 2000, Petra has participated in several lecture and study stays and mobility stays abroad in the UK, USA, the Czech Republic and Poland.
In total, so far she has participated in more than 30 domestic and foreign conferences, where she presented the results of her research findings.
Petra leads lectures and seminars in bachelor's, master's, and postgraduate full-time and part-time studies. She teaches academic courses of English Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscape and English Through Literature seminar. In postgraduate studies, she conducts seminars on Scientific and Academic Communication Skills in English Language. As a supervisor, she conducts final bachelor's, master's, and rigorous theses.
Some of her recent publications and papers include:
• Humor v médiách počas súčasnej pandémie (Humor in the media during the current pandemic). In Lingua Viva: a professional journal for the theory and practice of teaching foreign languages and Czech as a foreign language. České Budějovice: University of South Bohemia, 2022. ISSN 1801-1489. Vol. 18, no. 34 (2022), pp. 37-46. ERIH PLUS;
• Jazyková krajina v pedagogickej praxi (Linguisitc Landscape in Pedagogical Practice). In: Theory and practice of training future translatologists and English language teachers III. Proceedings of peer-reviewed papers from the International Online Conference held on 8-9 September 2021 (ed. A. Slatinská), BB: A Grafik, spol. Ltd. in cooperation with KAA FF UMB in BB, 2021, pp. 11 -115. ISBN 978-80-972004-1-1;
• Skúmanie základnej jednotky jazykovej krajiny (Examination of the basic unit of a linguistic landscape). In: From Text To Translation XV Part 2 Linguistic Landscape (eds. A. Ďuricová, J. Lauková), Prague: Jednota tlumočníků a překladatelů, 2021, p. 45-51. ISBN 978-80-7374-132-7 (Part 2);
• The Future of English after Brexit – Tendencies and Perspectives. In 1st Nitra Postgraduate Conference in English Studies: Trends and Perspectives. Conference Proceedings Prague: Verbum, 2020, pp. 18 - 32. ISBN 978-80-87800-65-2 (invited lecture at the domestic conference 24.10.2019 published in the proceedings);
• Teaching Linguistic Landscape to Future English Teachers Supported by the Moodle Application. In: Innovation in language learning : conference proceedings, 15. international conference, 10.-11.11.2022 : hybrid edition.1st ed. Bologna: Filodiritto Publisher, 2022. ISBN 979-12-80225-42-9. - ISSN 2384-9509. - Pp. 61-65. Available at: https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/files/ict4ll/ed0015/FP/8000-ELRN5707-FP-ICT4LL15.pdf;
• Úvodné poznámky na margo výskumu jazykovej krajiny Národnej ulice v Banskej Bystrici. In: Od textu k prekladu 14 (ed. Alena Ďuricová) 2nd part, Linguistic Landscape. 1st ed. Prague: Jednota tlůmočníků a překladatelů, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7374-128-0. Pp. 24-28. Available at: https://www.ff.umb.sk/app/cmsSiteAttachment.php?ID=7945;
• Selected chapters in English lexicology: phraseology and word-formation / Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová, Petra Jesenská; part II. 1st ed. Prešov : Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity, Prešov, 2019. 132 pp. ISBN 978-80-555-2285-2;
• English Vocabulary Stratification. Banská Bystrica: Belianum, 2019, 85 pp. ISBN 978-80-557-1604-6 (university textbook).
Areas of expertise: English lexical semantics, English lexical morphology, sociolinguistics, expression of gender in English and Slovak languages, invisibility of women in language, implementation of gender sensitive language, linguistic landscape.
