Teaching and Learning Polish as a Second Language: Theoretical and Practical Remarks for Students and Teachers [Apprendre le polonais. Remarques théoriques et pratiques à l’attention des étudiants et des enseignants]

Hélène Włodarczyk

doi:10.31261/PS_P.2022.30.03

Published: 2022-12-12

Vol. 30 No. 2 (2022)

Teaching and Learning Polish as a Second Language: Theoretical and Practical Remarks for Students and Teachers [Apprendre le polonais. Remarques théoriques et pratiques à l’attention des étudiants et des enseignants]

Hélène Włodarczyk

Section: Language in theory and use

https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.30.03

Abstract

The author proposes that teachers of Polish as a foreign language should keep track of the development of contemporary general linguistics. However, in the process they need to focus on the specific problems of Polish while initiating students only into the necessary general linguistic knowledge, using it first and foremost to draw the students’ attention to their own native language, in order to be able to compare it with the second language. An important premise of the proposed method is that when teaching any foreign language we should constantly revisit traditional grammatical theory and terminology. In this way, conflicts resulting from differences between knowledge of one’s national language and a foreign language may be avoided. A specialist in a foreign language should be able to describe it in such a way that people who do not yet know either this language or its respective grammatical terminology are able to build in their minds some representation of it comparable to other languages they already know. Unfortunately, in contemporary general linguistics we do not usually have at our disposal concepts and theories for adequate description of a great variety of languages (except in fields such as phonology and morphology). Therefore, the final and decisive element of successful learning of a foreign language remains the passion and commitment of the
learners themselves..

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Polish as a foreign language , linguistic theory , didactic practice

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Włodarczyk, H. (2022). Teaching and Learning Polish as a Second Language: Theoretical and Practical Remarks for Students and Teachers [Apprendre le polonais. Remarques théoriques et pratiques à l’attention des étudiants et des enseignants]. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 30(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.30.03

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Hélène Włodarczyk

Helene.Wlodarczyk@sorbonne-universite.fr
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0277-0490

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Paris-Sorbonne University (professor emeritus) France

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HÉLÈNE WŁODARCZYK – emeritus professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Paris-Sorbonne University (now Sorbonne-Université), Paris, France. As a French native speaker, the author learned Polish as a foreign language, and then for 30 years she was a lecturer of Polish language and literature at Sorbonne University. She conducted scientific research in the field of linguistics since the 1990s she has become familiar with computer methods (experimentation of selected problems of grammar theory using the Prolog programming language and building databases and their analysis using artificial intelligence tools collected in the SEMANA platform). Her most important scientific interests are: Polish, Slavic, general theoretical and interactive (computational) linguistics, Polish literature of the 20th century. Her most important publications include: André Włodarczyk and Hélène Włodarczyk, The Interactive Method for Language Science and Some Salient Results, in: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa (Problems of Epistemology), Komitet Naukoznawstwa PAN, Warszawa, 2022, pp. 73–92; André Włodarczyk and Hélène Włodarczyk, Qu’est-ce au juste que la prédication ?, „Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris”, vol. CXIV (2019), fasc. 1, pp. 1–54.

Vol. 30 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2023-03-01

ISSN: 1898-1593

eISSN: 2353-9844

10.31261/PS_P

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