Challenges of bilingual students from Polish diaspora schools – a therapeutic perspective
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46941/2024.1.9Schlagworte:
bilingualism, Polish diaspora schools, Polonia, students’ difficulties, speech therapy, psychology, emigration.Abstract
This text presents the challenges faced by children from Polish-speaking families living abroad. The first part of the article describes the specificity of bilingualism along with a division and discussion of its various types. Next, it discusses the topics related to the Polish diaspora and the schools attended by children of Polish nationality. Subsequently, the difficulties of bilingual children for whom the language of the host country is the second language are discussed. Problems are mainly considered from the perspective of speech therapy and psychology. Then, the challenges that Polish diaspora schools are trying to meet are described. The text is supported by the authors’ many years of experience in working with bilingual students and cooperation with teachers from Polish diaspora schools. The conclusions formulated in the text are based on the experience of the “Flying Clinic” project, which was implemented by the Centre for the Development of Polish Education Abroad (ORPEG)
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