Styl (nie)oficjalny uczniowskich listów prywatnych
The (in)official style of students’ private letters

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the style of private letters – theoretical assumptions and genre features of this form of expression in opposition to the communicative reality of contemporary primary school students. Contemporary communication methods, tools, and platforms, such as short text messages (SMS), various instant messaging services, and smartphone applications, have definitely changed not only our conversational habits but also the form, content, and style of messages sent, and have successively transformed letter writing in the youngest generation. Writing private letters is certainly a dying art today. It is possible that one of the last situations that determine children and young people to write letters is school circumstances and requirements (separated from the communication reality and everyday needs). The article aims to present text-creating competence and the method of implementing the informal-private letter style by primary school students. The analyzed research material was collected while monitoring Polish language skills carried out among students of grades 4–7 in two primary schools in the Gniewino commune (Pomerania).

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