Introduction

Abstract

The collection of texts presented here comes from experienced university teachers of practical English classes and other foreign languages and from university lecturers in content courses run in English. The teaching approaches presented range from more teacher-centred ones in the areas which require a stronger theoretical focus, to more learner-centred ones in the areas which aim at skills development. These approaches also express the individual preferences and teaching styles of individual teachers developed over their professional careers. Each of the texts opens with a theoretical background discussing the major characteristics of language acquisition/learning processes involved in developing a given aspect of language competence or a language subsystem and their teaching implications. [fragm. tekstu]