Anna Ni¿egorodcew graduated from the English and Psychology Departments of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland. She took her PhD at the Philosophical Faculty of the same university. She is Professor in applied linguistics and Chair of the Applied Linguistics Section of the English Department at the Jagiellonian University. She has published a number of books and articles in the areas of teaching English, SLA and second/foreign language teacher education.