Polish as a foreign, second and heritage language : teaching trajectories

Teaching Polish as a foreign, second, and heritage language are three different though partially overlapping dimensions of Polish teaching. In each of them, the teacher has to organize the learning/teaching process in a slightly different way in order to satisfy the needs, possibilities and expectations of diverse learners. The text focuses on the specificity of those three dimensions in the context of language status change. It shows also the results of preliminary research which was conducted in order to show what particular difficulties with specific input reception at B1 concern pupils for whom Polish is, respectively, a foreign, second or heritage language. B1 is the final stage of developing basic language communicative competences. Then, pupils need to develop specific skills, depending on the status of the target language in their present or future lives.