English Program Director of Studies

Dorota Czos, M.A., our DOS of the English Program is a Warsaw University Graduate in the field of Theoretical and Practical Linguistics. She obtained her teaching qualifications from the English Department of the Institute of Neophilology. During her studies, she specialized in phonology/phonetics, philosophy of language and translation. For over 13 years now she has been teaching English at all levels of advancement and in all age groups. She taught English also in Sydney, Australia, where she prepared children and adults from all over the world to begin their education and/or professional life in the English speaking environment.

Since 2004 Dorota Czos has been a DOS in bilingual studies, and she started co-operation with our kindergarten in 2006. In the course of her bilingual studies DOS career, she has written bilingual education programs for kindergarten and primary school (grades 1 - 3). She was responsible for the implementation of these programs in two institutions in Warsaw. For ‘Mali Odkrywcy/Little Discoverers' Bilingual Kindergarten Dorota Czos has prepared ‘Wielojęzyczny Świat Przedszkolaka/Multilingual Kindergarten World', the immersion program of teaching in English.

In the course of her professional career, Dorota Czos has written a number of non-standard English courses curricula for children, teenagers and adults. These courses are rooted in the principle of the natural process of language acquisition (through drama or projects, among others), or focus on specific language skills such as pronunciation, or academic writing. In 2006 she became interested in teaching/learning languages via the Internet.