Text-creating competence in an inherited language. Creativity and games in the process of text composition Cover Image

Kompetencja tekstotwórcza w języku odziedziczonym, czyli o kreacji i zabawie w procesie tworzenia tekstów
Text-creating competence in an inherited language. Creativity and games in the process of text composition

Author(s): Bernadeta Niesporek-Szamburska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Western Slavic Languages, Preschool education, School education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: text-creating competence; inherited language; levels of language proficiency (Cummins’ theory); playing with texts

Summary/Abstract: The article author presents the methods of developing text-creating competence of students in a Polish diaspora. The article begins with a short presentation of discourse specificity in Polish diaspora teaching. The author also defines such notions as text competence and text-creating competence and explains their specific position in teaching bilingual students for whom Polish is an inherited language. The author refers to Cumming’s theory of two levels of language competence. Next, she discusses creativity and games as important elements supporting education and developing text-creating skills. The article concludes with several examples of exercises for students.

  • Issue Year: 22/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 101-119
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish