Sylwia Adamczak-Krysztofowicz

About

Sylwia Adamczak-Krysztofowicz is professor extraordinarius at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and the Editor-in-chief for Glottodidactica, an International Journal of Applied Linguistics. She worked also at the universities in Frankfurt/Oder, Darmstadt and Marburg. In the years 2022 until now she has been the Polish leader of the GIP-Project “Kultur- und Sprachreflexivität in der internationalen Lehrer*innenbildung im Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache”, co-financed by the DAAD. Adamczak-Krysztofowicz is the author of four books and over 100 articles published in scientific monographs, lexicons or professional journals, the editor of seven collective monographs and three issues of the Info DaF journal. 

Research areas

• Glottodidactics in general
• Didactics and methodology of German as a foreign language
• Culture reflexive learning and communication
• Hate speech
• Tandem learning for rescue services
• Polish-German-Dutch intensive exchange project seminars
  

Awards 

• Polish Prime Minister’s Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation (2003)
• AMU Rector’s Prize for research achievements (2010)
• The President of Poland’s Bronze Medal for long-lasting excellent services (2010)
• AMU Rector’s award for didactic achievements (2012, 2014, 2021, 2025)
• Polish Minister’s of Education Prize for outstanding achievements in teaching (2019)
• The President of Poland’s Silver Medal for long-lasting excellent services (2024)
  

Memberships

• Member of the International Association for German Studies (IVG)