Abstracts
ELIZA CHABROS
Senior Learners in a Mixed Group – How to Support and Motivate Them More and more frequently, elderly people become participants of language courses. The article determines a role of a teacher in the process of motivating seniors to learn a foreign language in a group with an inconsistent age structure. The analysis covers maintaining motivation and eliminating the influence of demotivating factors that result from the advanced age of learners, such as memory disorders, decreased attention span, weakened senses, radically different educational profiles from other participants, and specific goals and interests. An important task of the teacher is to create new motifs which in a given educational context may effect a greater motivation of a learner. The role of interaction, emotions and the attitude of the teacher towards senior students are discussed in greater detail. JUSTYNA HRYNIEWICZ
KIKUS Digital – Interactive Educational Software for Young Learners The process of teaching languages in the context of migration, multilingualism and the new media needs to account for important changes which affect both teachers and pupils. KIKUS digital is an interactive software designed to support early foreign language learning, and is a brand new teaching aid with eight languages available, including Polish and German. The article presents the basic elements of the KIKUS teaching method, as well as explains the functioning of KIKUS digital. Moreover, it shows the possibilities that the use of this educational software brings to Polish and German classes when teaching vocabulary and grammar in primary schools. MARCIN JURKOWICZ
Organizational Aspects of Project-Based Learning at School The article discusses how project-based learning at school should be organized in order to be conducted efficiently and successfully. There is considerably more to it than simply telling pupils they are going to do a project and asking them to bring the necessary tools and materials to the classroom. The author shows that one of the essential factors determining the success of pupils’ project work is their ability to communicate and cooperate within a group, which needs to be practised. Also, the article discusses the role of the teacher in pupils’ project-based learning. KATARZYNA KODENIEC
Translation as a Form of Language Mediation The paper presents translation as a valuable element of language teaching. Translation is presented addressing a few basic assumptions concerning its nature, especially seen as a form of communication. As such, it belongs among other areas of language teaching outlined in CEFR. The skill of translation can be developed at various levels, 131
