Rozwijanie kompetencji międzykulturowej za pomocą książek o Polsce napisanych przez cudzoziemców
Developing intercultural competence through books on Poland written by foreigners

Summary/Abstract: In the present article, two books on Polish culture written by foreigners are analysed in detail from the point of view of the intercultural approach to teaching foreign languages, namely Berlin-Warszawa-Express. Pociąg do Polski (2013) by Steffen Möller and Jestem Kazu. Japończyk w Polsce (2017) by Kazutaki Sasaki. The author explains why this kind of text constitutes relevant material to develop intercultural competence during classes of Polish as a foreign language. The definition and methods of shaping intercultural competence are recalled in the article. The author emphasizes that books by foreigners create an opportunity to discover not only Polish culture, but also the cultures represented by the authors of the texts discussed. Moreover, they enable students to talk naturally about their own respective cultures in the context of comparisons with Polish culture. The article contains proposals of exercises aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue in the process of teaching Polish as a foreign language, which are based on chosen fragments of the analysed books.

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