Badania nad kompetencją fonologiczną, ortoepiczną i ortograficzną w zakresie dźwięków odpowiadających literom ą oraz ę w grupie cudzoziemców uczących się języka polskiego .......... 229

RESEARCH ON PHONOLOGICAL, ORTHOEPIC AND SPELLING COMPETENCE IN THE AREA OF SOUNDS CORRESPONDING TO THE LETTERS ‘Ą’ AND ‘Ę’ IN A GROUP OF FOREIGNERS LEARNING POLISH

The  paper  contains  a  brief  description  of  the  research  carried  out  for  the  purposes  of  the author’s doctoral dissertation Perception, articulation and spelling of sounds corresponding to  the letters ‘ą’  and  ‘ę’  in  the  process  of  acquiring  Polish  by  foreigners.  The  primary  aim  of  the study was to examine the phonological, orthoepic and spelling competence in the area of sounds corresponding to the letters ‘ą’ and ‘ę’ in a group of 99 foreign-language respondents, who spoke 11 native languages and were on 3 language levels of Polish (A, B and C). The results obtained in four stages were compared in accordance with the respondents’ level of  Polish  and  the  belonging  of their  native languages  to  the  group  of  Slavic  or  non-Slavic  languages.  Selected  forms  of pronunciation  by the  foreigners  were  evaluated  by  60  Polish  native speakers. The article presents the most important results obtained in each of the five stages of research.