A Good Climate for Learning Polish. Standards of Simple Polish in Glottodidactics (on the Example of Texts on Climate Crisis)
Abstract
This article presents the results of the VF project “The V4 Humanities Education for the Climate”. In the face of accelerating climate changes, which affect all our lives, Polish glottodidactics must not remain indifferent and must address the topical issue of how to get involved in ecological humanities. Magdalena Zakrzewska-Verdugo shares her idea on how to make sure that authentic content related to the climate crisis is used as often as possible in classes of Polish as a foreign language. She suggests adapting the rules of Polish plain language and applying the editorial tools Jasnopis and Logios for language teaching purposes. Mentioned applications use qualitative and quantitative methods that enable an objective assessment of a text’s accessibility as well as simplifying texts to the desired level of learners’ competence. In the second part of the article, Zakrzewska-Verdugo presents original B2 level materials on environmental protection, prepared from authentic press articles with the help of this methodology and the web apps. She adds methodological commentary aiming to encourage other teachers to use authentic materials, the rules of simple Polish and the tools of Jasnopis and Logios.
Keywords
Polish glottodidactics; ecological humanities; glottodidactics for the climate; simple Polish
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Free University of Brussels Belgium
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2568-087X
MAGDALENA ZAKRZEWSKA-VERDUGO – PhD, Department of Polish Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels), Brussels, Belgium. She received her PhD in comparative Slavonic philology from Palacký University in Olomouc in 2016. From 2017 to 2022, she worked as a Polish language teacher at Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 2022, she has been working as a Polish language teacher at Free University of Brussels. Her research interests include Polish language glottodidactics, comparative linguistics and translation studies. Major publications: Przekład literacki jako problem filologiczno-kulturowy (na podstawie analizy tłumaczeń tekstów D. Masłowskiej, M. Witkowskiego i S. Shutego na język rosyjski) [Literary Translation as a Philological and Cultural Problem (Based on an Analysis of Translations into Russian of Works by D. Masłowska, M. Witkowski, and S. Shuty)] (Olomouc 2017), Полонистиката в чуждестранните
университети през погледа на лектора по полски език и литература („Чуждоезиково обучение” 2020), Polski na A. Część III. Podręcznik języka polskiego. (nie tylko) dla Słowaków [Polish for an A Grade. Part III. A Textbook of the Polish Language for Slovak Students (and Other Foreigners)] (Bratislava 2021).
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