Theory and Practice 
of 

Second Language Acquisition

Vol. 6 (1), 2020

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2020



Editors-in-Chief
Danuta Gabryś-Barker

University of Silesia, Katowice
Adam Wojtaszek

University of Silesia, Katowice

Language Editor
David Schauffler

University of Silesia, Katowice

Editorial Board

 Janusz Arabski  (University of Silesia, Katowice/Vistula University, Warsaw)
Larissa Aronin (Oranim College of Higher Education/Trinity College, Dublin)
Jasone Cenoz Iraqui (University of the Basque Country, Donostia – San Sebastian)
Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin)
Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls)
Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck)
Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw)
Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney)
Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional 

Education, Konin)
Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (University of Opole, Opole)
Andrzej Porzuczek (University of Silesia, Katowice)
David Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin/University of Pannonia, Veszprem)
Eva Vetter (University of Vienna, Vienna)
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź, Łódź)
Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia, Katowice)

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Contents

Preface (Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Adam Wojtaszek)                                              5 

Articles

Jorge Pinto
Chinese Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Translanguaging and Its Uses in Portuguese 
Foreign Language Classrooms                                                                         11 

Dominika Dzik
Variations in Child-Child and Child-Adult Interactions―A Study of 
Communication Strategies in L3 Spanish                                                         31 

Katarzyna Papaja, Marzena Wysocka-Narewska
Investigating Code-switching in a Content and Language Integrated Learning 
(CLIL) Classroom                                                                                          51 

Teresa Maria Włosowicz
Translanguaging as the Mobilisation of Linguistic Resources by Learners of 
Spanish as a Third or Additional Language                                                        65 

Katarzyna Rokoszewska
Intra-individual Variability in the Emergence of Lexical Complexity in Speaking 
English at Secondary School––A Case Study of a Good, Average, and Poor 
Language Learner                                                                                          107 

Adam Palka
Metaphors We Academicize the World With?––Metaphor(icity) Perceived in the 
Context of Academia (A Case Study of English Philologists-to-be)                     143

Reviews

Sarah Mercer, Marion Williams (2014). Multiple Perspectives on the Self in 
the SLA (Bristol: Multilingual Letters)––by Marek Derenowski                           185



Contents4

Małgorzata Bielicka (2017). Efektywność nauczania języka niemieckiego na 
poziomie przedszkolnym i wczesnoszkolnym w dwujęzycznych placówkach edu-
kacyjnych w Polsce (Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM)––by Zofia Chłopek 189
Vaclaw Brezina (2018). Statistics in Corpus Linguistics. A Practical Guide 
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)––by Jolanta Latkowska                       195

Style Guide for the Authors                                                                            203