The Communicative Approach in New Programs and Textbooks for Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language
Wladyslaw
Miodunka
Though the first program based on the communicative approach
The Threshold Level English,
elaborated by the Council
of Europe, was published in 1975, the first Polish program based on
that approach was published almost twenty years later, in 1992 in the
volume entitled J&enasal;zyk polski jako obcy. Programy
nauczania (Polish as a Foreign Language. Teaching
Programs). This does not however mean that before 1992 there
were no communicative textbooks for teaching Polish; Mów
do mnie jeszcze (Talk to me more), a communicative
textbook for teaching Polish as a foreign language by W. Martyniuk,
had already been published in 1984.
This paper concerns the realization of communicative programs in
both textbooks for teaching Polish as a foreign language that were
published in the nineties and the video program Uczmy si&enasal;
polskiego (Let's Learn Polish). It aims to reveal
how particular authors understand the notion of the communicative
approach, as well as which elements of that approach they teach and in
what way. The paper will also analyze the relationships between the
communicative approach and teaching languages like Polish, which is
more distant from English than French, German and Spanish.