Anna Skałba

Dr. Anna Skałba is a Laboratory Assistant at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Linguistics (expected 2025) and holds a Master's degree in English Philology (2020) and a BA in English Philology (2018). Her research focuses on psycholinguistics, bilingualism, mental syntax representation, eye-tracking, syntactic priming, and second/third language acquisition.

• PhD in Linguistics (2025, AMU)
• MA in English Philology (2020, AMU)
• BA in English Philology (2018, State University of Applied Sciences, Nowy Sącz)

Her work investigates cross-linguistic influences in multilingual contexts, particularly examining tense representation (e.g., English present perfect vs. French passé composé), phonological processing, and cognitive consequences of multilingualism. She employs eye-tracking, EEG, and self-paced reading experiments to study structural priming and language processing across Polish-English-French multilinguals.

Key research projects include: "Bidirectional interactions between grammatical gender systems" (2024-2027, PI: Kamil Długosz), "Multibridge" (2024-2025, PI: Magdalena Wrembel), and "Representation of grammatical tenses in the bilingual mind" (PI: herself, 2022-2023). She has presented at prestigious conferences including the International Congress of Linguists and EuroSLA.

Her teaching experience spans EFL instruction, English grammar, Business English, and Cambridge exam preparation. She has contributed to academic conferences through poster presentations and oral talks, including work on L3 Norwegian acquisition, syntactic CLI, and hiatus resolution differences across languages.