Academic Year and Language of Instruction in Poland

Poland has a tradition of multi-lingual education in its schools and universities. Of course, Polish is the primary language and is taught compulsorily, but many other foreign languages such as English, French, and German are also included in higher education. 

There is no requirement to learn foreign lingos at this level. They are not comprised in the curriculum. Still, most children start foreign languages in pre-primary schooling. The learning method involves 'playing' with a specified language, by means of new method and techniques suitable for children. The most common foreign tongues are English, German and French. 

In primary schooling a single foreign language is compulsory from the first grade. This condition can transform for the better after 2014, once a new education restructuring will be fully effective. The most prevalent foreign languages are English, German and French. The state of affairs in primary education is positive.

Throughout secondary education scholars continue to study the overseas language selected in primary school. They, correspondingly, start a second foreign language in the very first year of secondary level. Two foreign languages are mandatory and students can select their second foreign language from among English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. In some institutes, students are trained in Chinese. There are subordinate schools with an intercontinental baccalaureate (CIB) and the syllabus is based on contents as well as language education.

At the professional training level, the learning of extraneous languages faces many difficulties: the curriculum and syllabus is shaped locally. Vocational schools are sovereign in building their final linguistic requirements; though, there is connection to the CEFR. The class assurance and procedures linked with final assessment are not widespread. One of the possible changes could be the overview of a common platform for negotiation between vocational establishments in order to craft common external language requirements containing a syllabus and final examination. 

Universities have obligatory foreign language courses in their packages. The colleges in Poland are autonomous and the programme of a specified subject should be accepted by the Faculty Board. It is very problematic to regulate foreign language programmes at universities. 

Poland has endured substantial modifications in the area of education. A range of European documents have shaped a common agenda for making Polish people more conscious of being European residents. The quantity of pupils learning foreign languages at universities is continuously rising, with a prevalence of English taught to majority learners at primary, lower, and secondary schools.