INTERVIEW WITH DR. HALINA SIEROCKA

Abstract

Dr. Halina Sierocka is an ESP expert, she deals with Legal English. She has received double education – in linguistics and law. This makes her so rare, the right person to speak about the controversies inscripted in the very essence of ESP, but also the related fields, like CLIL or EMI. Dr. Halina Sierocka is a lawyer-linguist. She received her MA from the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland, in 2000, and after that received the MA in Applied Linguistics, from the Faculty of Philology, at the same university. Now she has the academic degree of an Associate Professor, and holds the position of the Head of the Bialystok Legal English Centre at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok. Dr. Sierocka is in charge of the development of new courses (commercial and postgraduate ones) and development of materials, creating new projects, research into English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and methodology of language teaching in ESP. She is the author of numerous publications with renowned publishers, has taken part in outstanding domestic and international projects, and has been invited plenary speaker at prestigious conferences and events.