The Development of Your Speaking Ego through Linguistic Concepts

Michał Daszkiewicz, PhD (Poland, University of Gdańsk), specialises in educational applications of linguistics and linguistic foundations of education. He is an academic, a sworn translator and an English teacher. His work and academic papers relate to (a) speaking – including 'On personal experiencing of spoken English by Poles, A directed utterance as a personal educational event and a tool for seamlessness between (L1 and L2) reception and production, Language conventions – paradoxically – as grounds for EFL students' (oracy-oriented) personal experience'; (b) language composing – including 'Compose Your Own English. Theoretical foundations and practical aspects of a personalised speaking-oriented EFL approach'; (c) linguistic education – including 'Language personality as a four-dimensional construct falling outside university students' reflection, Language composing as the conceptual axis of a four-domain educational paradigm'; and (d) the language in/of democracy – incl. 'Language as the basis of democratic education, Democracy as a – socially and disciplinarily – negotiated personal construct'.