Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak

Phonolapsology of English graded readers, Virtual Worlds in EFL

Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak is professor of English linguistics in the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Over the 31 years of his academic career he has researched and taught English phonetics and phonology, humorology, lexicography and CALL. His "English Phonetics for Poles" (first published in 1996, now in third edition) is the most widely used EFL pronunciation textbook in Poland. Sobkowiak is also author of "Metaphonology of English paronomasic puns" (1991), "Pronunciation in EFL Machine Readable Dictionaries" (1999), "Phonetics of EFL dictionary definitions" (2006) and about a hundred scholarly papers and reviews. He has co-authored a number of EFL textbooks: "The lighter side of English" (1997), "Limericks" (1997) and "Matchbox English" (2001). Back in 1993, he co-authored one of the first EFL CALL programs in Poland, "Pop-English", which gained enormous popularity and is still used in EFL teaching and learning in Poland.