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The article deals with the implications of the anthropocentric language theory by F. Grucza for foreign/second language teaching and learning process design. In the first part the anthropocentric language theory is presented in connection with other modern linguistic theories such as the model of language processing by W.J.M. Levelt and discourse theory. The first part is also concerned with the problem...
The discussion is aimed at directing both linguists' and educators' attention toward culture viewed as a competence building element of second language education. The presented point of view underscores the need for expanding linguistic competence by adding cultural competence to it, bearing in mind that language is an integral part of culture. Besides, the stress is put on such a knowledge shaping...
The article presents the main directions of Polish research in the field of applied linguistics in its traditional sense. Moreover, it analyses the most significant achievements of the Polish linguists on the basis of the monograph Lingwistyka stosowana. Zarys jej historii, zadań i dokonań. (Applied Linguistics. History, objectives, achievements.) by Professor Franciszek Grucza. The first part discusses...
Among various writings about the field of glottodidactics as a science, this article asks the question: in what sense is the term ‘science' used in the expression ‘Glottodudactics as a science? The conception outlined here uses such criteria of ‘normal' science as the goals of the discipline, its relationships with the empirical reality and other disciplines, and the kinds and levels of its reasoning...
For years second language acquisition (SLA) studies have been using research methods originally employed in other social sciences, e.g. in psychology and sociology. A unique character of SLA investigations, resulting from their specific conditions and actions (i.e. researching language skills versus knowledge), allowed for a number of developments in research methods, especially in the area of validity...
The concept of language competence has evolved over the decades from linguistic competence (Noam Chomsky) via communicative competence (Dell Hymes) to intercultural communicative competence (Michael Byram). The process of communication has attracted attention of numerous researchers from different disciplines: linguistics and applied linguistics, language education, ethnography and cross-cultural...
The article deals with the implications of the linguistic study of bilingualism and bilingual education for second language teaching in early educational stages: in pre-school children and primary school children. In the first part, the question is raised which age is optimal for the beginning of language learning. The second part touches upon didactic and methodological problems of language teaching...
This article makes an attempt at reflecting on the need to separate an area described as “comparative for-eign language didactics” from among the areas of contemporary foreign language didactics. Its first part outlines the development of European and Polish didactic thought, understood as parallely developing areas of research activity, generating and using free flow of academic ideas. It constitutes...
Foreign language teachers’ training is one of the research domains of the Polish foreign lan-guage didactics as an academic discipline. It is also an area of practice in the perspective of which we have to distinguish scientific knowledge, personal views [germ. subjective theorien], teaching practices in class and academic studies. In the present paper I discuss some results of the meta-analysis of...
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