• Struktura Studium

• Dydaktyka

• Pozostała działalność

• Kursy i egzaminy

  • Polish for Foreign Students
  • Kursy językowe dla doktorantów
  • Kursy specjalistyczne i profilowane
  • Kursy e-learningowe
  • Kursy jezykowe dla pracowników
  • Certyfikaty międzynarodowe - oferowane kursy i egzaminy

The Department of Foreign Languages at the AGH University of Science and Technology provides Polish language courses to foreign students, scholarship holders of the university and the Polish government, and also the holders of scholarships entitled to them by the governments of their countries, trainees, grant holders of the Fulbright Foundation and UNESCO, as well as students without grants, in other words, those individually paying for their studies. According to the resolution of the AGH-UST Senate of 19 November, 2008, from the first year at the university, the students of AGH-UST are required to participate in Polish courses and learn Polish as the first language for the duration of four semesters (4 hours a week). Studying the Polish language is completed by the act of passing a qualifying exam at the B-2 level according to the Common European Framework of Languages. Students from all over the world come to study at AGH-UST. At present, the largest group are the students from Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Africa, Vietnam, and recently from China, Mongolia and Albania. These students have usually completed an elementary course of Polish at the University of Lodz, the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska or the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and the Institute of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners at the Jagiellonian University. Due to the students’ different command of Polish, they are divided into three levels of proficiency: pre-intermediate A-2, intermediate B-1 and upper-intermediate B-2. The Department of Foreign Languages at AGH-UST offers Polish courses at beginner level, the so-called “Survival Polish”, as it was the case on the AGH-UST Rector’s commission with the groups of students from the Czech Republic, Mexico, and recently, the students from China and the UNESCO scholarship holders. An intensive, one-year course of Polish at beginner level designed for students from Albania has provided very good results. The proof of this is that courses for the Albanian students are now conducted entirely in Polish at the Faculty of Management. Taking students’ needs into account, one must take into consideration the differences between the syllabuses and programmes for foreigners applied in Poland, and the programmes used abroad. Ukrainian, Belorussian and Kazakhstani students learning Polish have decided to learn the language due to their origins, their interest in studies at AGH-UST, their contact with the Polish people, as well as Poland and its culture. However, the foreigners coming to Poland are students who have made a decision to learn Polish, therefore spend their time and money in order to learn the language well enough to begin studies in the Polish language, to build up and extend their technical vocabulary, pass their courses and exams, and to write their master thesis and prepare for its defence in Polish. The syllabus of teaching Polish as a foreign language has been designed by a team of methodologists at the Institute for the Study of the Polish Community at the Jagiellonian University, and it is also based on lengthy research and experience of a Polish teacher at the Department of Foreign Languages at AGH-UST who has substantial experience in designing her own teaching programmes and preparing her own materials and exercises. In a sense, the syllabus is a collection of Polish language teaching programmes, and it can be understood and a combination of teaching the morphological and syntactic structure, vocabulary, the ways of expressing notions, as well as the intuition and language behaviour in different situations and in reference to various subjects. The subject programme has been extended to the elements of Polish history and culture. Another section is a set of questions relating to the technical language, as it is based on the teacher’s experience who always takes the student’s programme of studies into consideration. Therefore, we can say that the suggested syllabus reflects the contemporary knowledge of Poland, the world, and at the same time, it is parallel with the trends in designing teaching programmes of the so-called “world languages”. Spoken texts and written literary and technical Polish constitute the language material prepared by different authors. More information about teaching Polish as a foreign language can be obtained from the Pubic Information Newsletter (BIP) of 15 May, 2008, in an article by Bogumila Osiak, M.A., a teacher of Polish at the Department of Foreign Languages at AGH-UST.

Tłumaczenie - mgr Grzegorz Kłopotowski