Edukacyjna odpowiedź na horyzont oczekiwań językowych dziecka
An educational response to the horizon of a child’s linguistic expectation

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the following article is the reflection on the issue of the linguistic education of children in a younger school age. I propose herein to juxtapose the features of the horizon of linguistic expectations of children before school education, along with proposals of language education at school. First, a description of the cognitive mechanisms which accompany the development of a child’s linguistic skills is presented. I reach for various learning theories here so as to describe the features of the progress of the complex process of learning a language. Subsequently, I perform a general (and out of necessity simplified) reconstruction of the features of various linguistic messages encountered by contemporary children before going to school. Such an image of the horizon of a child’s linguistic expectations is confronted with a proposal of the school linguistic education. Then, the following question is answered: what is education’s response to the horizon of a pupil’s linguistic expectations? Approaching the issue regarding the linguistic education of children in younger grades, taking the linguistic disposition of the pupil into account enables a critical assessment of a school’s offer, which is significant to forming education curricula and strategies.

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