North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPl)
As the 2025–26 academic year is well underway, we take a closer look at Polish language enrollments across North American institutions. Following the 2025 NAATPl Polish Language Enrollment Survey (due December 1, 2025), we invite all Polish-teaching faculty and anyone interested to join us for a discussion summarizing this year’s survey results. The NAATPl 2025 Polish […]
Creating additional instructional materials has become a standard practice for instructors and teachers of Polish as a foreign language (PFL), although such materials are often limited to specific grammatical or cultural topics. Reusable teaching materials (also known as reusable learning objects) address this problem by promoting the development of resources that can be adapted for use across different student levels and cohorts.
Polonicum: Center for Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners at the University of Warsaw (Centrum Języka Polskiego i Kultury Polskiej dla Cudzoziemców) has released a call for papers for the conference Glottodydaktyka jako okno i lustro, which will take place in early 2026 at the University of Warsaw. Please see below for more details. The […]
Traditionally, textbooks for teaching Polish as a foreign language (PFL) have been written to promote standard-language knowledge and vocabulary. But what happens when PFL students arrive in the classroom with language skills in nonstandard or regional varieties, such as Kashubian (kaszëbsczi jãzëk), Podhalian, or Silesian (ślůnski)?
A general meeting of North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPl) members and two presentations on the teaching of Polish as a foreign language (PFL) mark the 2025 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) conference in February. 2025 annual NAATPl meeting As an affiliated organization, the North American Association […]