Sukcesy i porażki fonodydaktyki języka polskiego jako obcego. Uwagi postronnej obserwatorki
Successes and failures of teaching the pronunciation of Polish as a foreign language. Comments of an outside observer

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses and evaluates the present state of teaching Polish pronunciation to foreign learners, points to its strengths and weaknesses, and indicates directions for future development. The author regards the importance attached to the phonetic training of language teachers and auditory training of foreign learners, the competent employment of exercises based on minimal pairs, tongue twisters, poems and songs as well as techniques taken from speech therapy and speech training as significant merits of Polish pronunciation teaching. She criticizes the small number and low quality of publications devoted to teaching pronunciation, the lack of pronunciation syllabuses for different levels of language learning, the marginal place of phonetics in Polish coursebooks, no integration of pronunciation teaching with the remaining linguistic subsystems, too narrow scope of taught phonetic and phonological issues, the improper use of analytic techniques of pronunciation teaching, the lack of studies on the acquisition of Polish pronunciation by foreign learners and on the perception of foreign-accented Polish that are an empirical foundation of phonetic instruction, and the insufficient use of pronunciation teaching techniques developed for teaching pronunciation of other foreign languages in the Polish pronunciation teaching materials.

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