Dissemination of research conducted in the didactics of Polish as a foreign language

The aim of the volume is to focus on research interests that are rarely presented in the literature on the subject and that arise from the currently perceived needs of the developing didactics of Polish as a foreign language. The research results presented in the contributions provide a new look at the process of acquiring and/or teaching/learning Polish from the following aspects: the peculiarities of Ukrainian speakers learning Polish; problems of acquiring Polish by students from Japan, China, France and Lebanon, methods of developing language skills and activities, and specific phenomena in teaching Polish as a business language. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed analyses, as well as experimental corpora, allow the results described to be considered important for the developing discipline.

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Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw E. Gebal studierte Germanistik und romanische Sprachen in Wroclaw, Berlin und Paris. Er ist Professor für Angewandte Linguistik, Vergleichende Fremdsprachendidaktik und fremdsprachendidaktische Lehrerforschung am Institut für Angewandte Linguistik der Universität Danzig, Polen. Sein Forschungsgebiet umfasst interdisziplinäre Lehrerforschung, Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik, Didaktik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache sowie des Polnischen als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. Prof Dr Iwona Janowska, PhD in linguistics, is head of the Department of Polish as a Foreign Language at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Her research interests include the application of an action-oriented approach to language learning and teaching, the reception of CEFR in the didactics of Polish as a foreign language and the development of language activities.