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Kontekst nauczania języków obcych w Polsce – glottodydaktyczne implikacje dla drugich języków obcych
The context in Foreign Language Teaching in Poland – didactic implications for second foreign languages

Author(s): Radosław Kucharczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: multilingualism; multilingual competence; second foreign language; teaching; exams

Summary/Abstract: This article aims at defining the context of teaching second foreign languages in Poland. The article begins with a description of the main guidelines for the European education policy, in which the concept of multilingualism is on the foreground. We then present the assumptions of the language policy, whose main objective is to develop student’s plurilingual competence. In the next part of the article, we describe the Polish system of teaching foreign languages and system of external examinations of modern foreign languages, with an emphasis put on the space taken by the second foreign languages. The article ends with a proposal of systemic solutions that can increase the effectiveness in learning and teaching second foreign languages.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 195-212
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish