Kogo i jak teraz uczymy? Demografia a glottodydaktyka polonistyczna w zbiorowości polonocentrycznej USA

Abstract

The outline of the history of creation of Polish (Polonocentric) communities in the USA evidences the process of the demographic and social transformation of the diaspora from Polish populations of settlers to Polish communities abroad to Polonocentric circles, which has a substantive influence on education of Polish communities abroad in the areas of command of Polish and knowledge of Poland. The results of the research conducted in the period 2015–2022 in the educational system for Polish communities on the East Coast of the USA permit the conclusions on the necessity to modify the teaching methods, techniques, and materials used in teaching Polish to children and youth of Polish descent. Keywords: glottodidactics – Polish as a foreign language – inherited Polish language – Polish community in the USA