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Book SynopsisThis book presents a selection of papers on teaching English as a foreign language and the role of language education in human development. As thinking skills rely on language, language education should exceed utilitarian and everyday communicative needs and should be the basis for developing other school subjects. The book provides practical suggestions for language teaching, for the development of logical thinking and the understanding of the linguistic relationship between the first and the second languages in a historical perspective.
Table of ContentsContents: Ryszard Wenzel: A direction of general education – Marta Smalara-Lewandowska: Two languages in one mind: Towards a definition of the conscious bilingual – Mikołaj Rychło: The philological element in the education of a language teacher: Understanding the similarity between English and Polish – Karolina Janczukowicz: Aim-centered methodology – Olga Aleksandrowska: On the motivation of adult learners in English language education – Michał Daszkiewicz: Expressing knowledge as a personal educational event – Ryszard Wenzel: Language education and teaching by the learner’s text creation – Olga Aleksandrowska: Texts of culture in English language education – Michał Daszkiewicz: Testing as a source of personal educational experience.
