The book aims to demonstrate the diverse shapes that foreign language teaching and learning can have in various educational contexts, in terms of age groups (children, adolescents and adults), learning purposes (general language instruction vs. language for specific purposes) and instructional paradigms (language-oriented, interaction-oriented and post-method approaches). Special attention is paid to such key concepts in language teaching as motivation, auto-nomy, evaluation and assessment. This book tries to merge the macroperspec-tive, founded on such aspects of language instruction as defining competence, setting aims and objectives, developing curricula, planning lessons and evaluating learners' performance in general terms, with the microperspective of Poland as a place in which language instruction is run and whose specific problems are to be solved.
Hanna Komorowska is a full professor of applied linguistics and language teach-ing at the SWPS University in Warsaw. She has served as the Polish delegate to the Council of Europe, member of the EU High Level Group on Multilingualism, a consultant to the ECML in Graz and the president of the European Language Label Poland.Jaroslaw Krajka is an associate professor of applied linguistics and language teaching, head of the Division of Applied Linguistics of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin and the editor-in-chief of the journal Teaching English with Technology.
