ŚWIADOMOŚĆ JĘZYKOWA MŁODZIEŻY – WYBRANE ZAGADNIENIA
Language awareness among youth – selected issues

Summary/Abstract: This paper falls into the category of language culture. The aim of the study was to test 13-year-old youth’s language awareness in terms of developing their own language skills, proper speaking, and declared language model. The methodology covered a survey supported with an interview questionnaire and inspection of internal documents of the school where the survey was conducted. The analysis of the responses given by 115 students showed that a majority (ca. 80%) of the school youth liked speaking, were able to specify which speaking could be called “nice”, had a declared language authority, although it not always corresponded to linguists’ expectations. Fewer than a half of them (ca. 40%) had a positive attitude to activities developing language skills, saw the point in further improvement, and had some knowledge of how it could be achieved. The most common language model was members of the closest family and teachers, as well as other students and people known from the television.

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