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TEACHING MATERIALS DESIGN VERSUS LINGUISTIC AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING (BASED ON THE POLISH COURSE-BOOK BY M. MAJEWSKA-MEYERS) (Polish title - below)
(Title in Polish - 'Konstrukcja materialów nauczania a rozwijanie kompetencji jezykowej i interkulturowej w dydaktyce jezyków obcych (na przykladzie podrecznika do nauczania jezyka polskiego M. Majewskiej-Meyers)'). The article gives an overview of trends in foreign language teaching material design with special emphasis on ways of developing language proficiency and against the background of dynamically changing communicative needs and the linguistic policy of the Council of Europe and the European Union. Implications are then sought for FLT materials design and an analysis follows typical difficulties and shortcomings in course-book content and structure. Criteria for materials design are discussed as built around the theory of language status and range based on a distinction between languages taught as 'linguae francae' and those taught as non-international languages as well as around the assumptions connected with the relation of language and culture in language teaching. Efficient and educationally valuable solutions are then presented as demonstrated in M. Majewska-Meyers' course-book for the learning of Polish as a foreign language to self-learning adult German speakers.