Abstracts
NATALIA GÓRALCZYK
Are Foreign Language Teachers Prepared to Teach Older People? The research examines teachers’ preparation for teaching older learners foreign languages, their experience and interest in glottogeragogics. The majority of the participants did not have any classes dedicated to this topic during their studies. Almost half of the participants have problems identifying their level of preparation to teach older learners. Over half of those surveyed assess their experience as moderate. The need to broaden their knowledge in glottogeragogics is small or the teachers are undecided. Their opinion concerning what kind of knowledge of glottogeragogics and form of presentation would be the most relevant for them was collected. JAN ILUK
Silence in a Classroom Discourse: Reasons and Prevention Silence is an expression and a tool in communication. In intercultural contexts it may lead to communication breakdown and critical incidents. In a classroom context, silence is seen as an undesirable way of avoiding verbal communication. The article focuses on the reasons for this avoidance and ways of preventing it during a lesson. MAGDALENA KARASEK, MATEUSZ GAZE
What Polish as a Foreign Language Teachers Know about the Verb Persons studying to be teachers of Polish as a foreign language at the University of Lodz declare that their main concern during classes is the presentation of grammar. The article presents and discusses the results of the analysis of the questionnaire on basic problems of functional grammar of the Polish language in the field of verbal inflection, such as: conjugation, aspect, iterativity, passive voice. The questionnaire was carried out in two groups: those who completed both the specialization and internships, and those having started specialization who had no experience in teaching foreigners.
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