A Teacher Facing Educational Changes: Language Teaching in a Secondary School Using Coursebooks Published by the Operon Publishing House (the Description of the Good Practice)

Abstract

The article presents opportunities and challenges connected with teaching the mother tongue in contemporary secondary schools in Poland. The subject of reflection is the concept of language teaching included in the newest core curriculum for high schools, technical schools, and vocational schools as well as its implementation in the series of coursebooks (7 volumes) published by the Operon Publishing House in 2019–2022. Both the school content and the detailed realization in coursebooks as well as additional materials reflect the tendencies in contemporary didactics. The adopted solutions functionalizing the language knowledge and shaping the students’ language skills were analyzed. There have been pointed out difficulties that the authors of coursebooks and Polish teachers encounter while not being able to identify the detailed school content in the core curriculum. The suggested conclusions are to complete the content described in the core curriculum by giving more details about set readings. That way, students would be informed about issues in the areas of language teaching in accordance with the current language scientific knowledge.