Published: 2020-10-29

Contemporary approaches to the practice of determining grammatical gender 
and teaching Polish as a foreign language

Anna Seretny Logo ORCID , Wiesław Tomasz Stefańczyk Logo ORCID

Abstract

In contemporary Polish linguistics, there are two approaches to determining grammatical gender classes: the traditional and the contemporar formal. According to the traditional concept, derived from the classical school, the nominative case is the basis for the division into gender classes. In modern Polish language, the traditional approach distinguishes the following classes: masculine, feminine, and neutral and in the plural form there is also the masculine­personal and non­masculine­personal. On the other hand, in the contemporary approach the basis for division into gender classes is the accusative case, and less frequently, the genitive case. In didactic practice however, and especially in teaching Polish as a foreign language, the traditional approach is applied as it is the most transparent, understandable and accessible to learners.

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Seretny, A., & Stefańczyk, W. T. (2020). Contemporary approaches to the practice of determining grammatical gender 
and teaching Polish as a foreign language. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 19(1), 71–85. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10116

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2017)
Published: 2020-11-02


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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