Grammatical Error Analysis Approach in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language to Ukrainian Learners. A Review of Dominika Izdebska-Długosz’s Monograph “Błędy gramatyczne w polszczyźnie studentów ukraińskojęzycznych” (Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2021, ss. 472)

Abstract

The reviewed monograph is one of the few publications on error analysis approach to teaching grammar of Polish as a foreign language. The book provides an extensive theoretical study of errors from several perspectives (linguistic, psycholinguistic, didactic and sociocultural), with a particular focus on the analysis of grammatical blunders made by Ukrainian learners of Polish in their written assignments, as well as profound methodical guidelines and resources for practitioners engaged in the process of teaching Polish as a foreign language to Ukrainian students, whose linguistic competence profile is characterized on the basis of the contrastive analysis of Polish and Ukrainian. The research is grounded on the empirical data collected by the author in the course of her teaching experience, which makes the theoretical findings reliable and practical recommendations worth implementing in teaching practices.

Keywords

• error analysis
• grammatical error
• Polish as a foreign language
• Ukrainian learners of Polish
• teaching grammar