I am the assistant in the Department of English-Polish Contrastive Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, where for the past few years, I have been teaching practical English to freshmen. My research interests focus on teaching English as a foreign and second language, learner autonomy, teaching English to preschool children and young learners, nonverbal acts of communication in the context of foreign language learning, emotional intelligence and English for special purposes (veterinary science). Since 2007, I have been working for Morehampton Language Institute in Dublin tefling children, students and adults from around the world.