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Fall 2026 NAATPl Event: Beyond the First Year: “Pani Kowalska” and a New Vision for Second-Year Polish

What goes into creating a language textbook, and how can instructors evaluate and adapt teaching materials for their own classrooms? These questions will be at the center of the second North American Association of Teachers of Polish event of the Fall 2026 semester, featuring Dr. Izolda Wolski-Moskoff of the University of Chicago. In this presentation, […]

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Fall 2026 NAATPl Event: Translation Exercises in Teaching Polish as a Foreign Language

Translation exercises are among the most common language-learning activities, particularly at advanced levels. While they are often associated with practicing grammatical structures, translation tasks can also help develop a wide range of linguistic and communicative skills. In this event, we will explore the role and value of translation in the Polish language classroom. In the […]

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Spring 2026 NAATPl Special Event: Polski. Krok po kroku (new edition) Presentation

The 2025 NAATPl Polish Language Survey found that Polski. Krok po kroku is the second most widely used textbook in first- and second‑year Polish courses across North America. With the release of its new edition, we are pleased to invite our members to a special event featuring the textbook’s authors. With another academic year nearly […]

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Spring 2026 NAATPl Event: Building a Successful Polish Program

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.

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Fall 2025 NAATPl Event: Reusable Polish Teaching Materials

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.