JĘZYK POLSKI MNIEJ LUB BARDZIEJ DZIEDZICZONY – O CZYNNIKACH WPŁYWAJĄCYCH NA KOMPETENCJĘ JĘZYKOWĄ DZIECI POLSKICH EMIGRANTÓW
The more or less inherited Polish language. Factors infl uencing the language competence of Polish emigrants’ children

Summary/Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the impact of the family situation on the motivation of emigrants’ children to use Polish. The material for the research was provided by survey questionnaires fi lled in by teenagers and students who came to Poland to attend a Polish language course. The results of the survey demonstrate that maintenance of a command of Polish is extremely important to a vast majority of Polish parents. It also turns out that factors such as the family’s affl uence, ist social position or parents’ education have an insignifi cant infl uence on the level of language mastered by their children. What facilitates a high level of language competence is the respondents’ age – the group of students contained defi nitely more persons with a very good command of Polish than the group of teenagers.

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