Published: 2025-06-30

Old materials for teaching Polish in an English-speaking environment as sources for researching the history of Polish glottodidactic discourse

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The article stems from the belief that glottodidactic materials documenting the history of teaching Polish as a foreign language should be more intensively included in the scope of diachronic research. The review, conducted from a discourseological perspective, covered Polish language textbooks written for English-speaking audiences from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. The study aims to describe the socio-cultural and institutional conditions as well as the subject matter of the Polish-language glottodidactic discourse in the English-speaking environment in the past. A preliminary analysis of the content of the textbooks allowed for establishing that the demand for Polish language proficiency in English-speaking countries was motivated by academic, integrative, and cultural reasons. Another factor contributing to the prestige of the Polish language was the political situation of Poland after 1918. The scope and manner of the presentation of the Polish language reflect the state of knowledge of the methodology of teaching modern languages at that time. The observations made in the study seem to confirm the usefulness of discursological analyses of old glottodidactic textbooks, also in order to supplement knowledge about the prestige and functional differentiation of the Polish language in the past.

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Kotlarska, I. (2025). Old materials for teaching Polish in an English-speaking environment as sources for researching the history of Polish glottodidactic discourse. Forum Lingwistyczne, 13(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2025.13.1.12

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-06-30


ISSN: 2449-9587
eISSN: 2450-2758
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FL

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