Początki autonomicznego uczenia się języków obcych na wybranych przykładach samouczków języka niemieckiego dla Polaków

Abstract

This paper will present the results of a study devoted to the first attempts at language self-learning with the use of didactic texts designed for this purpose. The main research material consists of self- study books – belonging to the genre of text that was produced for autonomous learning, including independent language work. Using a few selected German self-study books from the second half of the 19th century as examples, including authors such as: Franz Ahn (1851), Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1873) and Plato von Reussner (1880), the main methodological guidelines were characterized, covering the forms of work recommended when learning a language without the help of a teacher. At the time, these studies were particularly popular. In the literature on the subject, little attention has been paid to this issue (e.g. Schramm 2008), even though teaching aids of this kind have been continuously developed and published since the 19th century. The topic under consideration is part of the research work devoted to glottodidactics from a diachronic perspective.