Mistakes in adaptations of literary texts (based on works by Polish Language Teaching as a Foreign Language specialization students)

Abstract

The Polish Language Teaching as a Foreign Language specialization, which has been run by The Department of Applied and Cultural Linguistics at the University of Łódź for more than 10 years, is presented briefly in the article. A special attention is drawn to the subject of culture, literature and knowledge about Poland in teaching Polish as a foreign language in which students of the specialization are asked to prepare an adaptation of a chosen literary text. The purpose of the article was showing the mistakes that students commit during preparation of work. The analysis of those mistakes indicated what future lectors have the greatest difficulties with, what knowledge they lack. The material was assessed in terms of methodological and linguistic mistakes, which indicated the general level of future lectors. The conclusions will enable university lecturers to improve the type of information passed on and the way it is conveyed to students from the perspective of the entire glottodidactic specialization.