L’apport des études sur les parlers bilingues dans l’enseignement/ apprentissage du polonais en milieu francophone

The contribution of research on bilingual speech to the teaching/learning of Polish in a French-speaking environment The paper attempts to show aspects of bilingualism as investigated in the new light of such phenomena as code switching, interference, and errors. A bilingual is no longer seen as a sum of two monolinguals, but rather as a person with a varied linguistic and cultural repertoire which he or she can use, depending on the situation. Researchers such as Swiss linguist Bernard Py have shown the relationship between a language learner and a stabilized bilingual. The example of acquisition of Polish outside Poland – in France, in Switzerland, in an institution as L2, or within a Polish family – very accurately confirms the general processes that recur in different time periods and in the contact of Polish with different languages. The richness of Polish research attests to this. In the area of language pedagogy, the notion of error and the status of error evaluation have changed dramatically: error is now considered an integral part of the acquisition of a foreign language, and error evaluation requires a multifaceted analysis.