Developing writing skills in Polish language education in the 21st century – from efficiency to creativity

Abstract

The article presents a thesis that the increase of the importance of writing skills in the modern world seems necessary to reflect on teaching writing in L1 once again. The concepts of teaching such competence were developed in the 20th century, in a completely different cultural and communication reality and are continued in Polish language education to this day. The considerations presented lead to the identification of problems that should be looked into and issues that should be examined in order to give writing an appropriate educational rank in relation to the cultural and communicative rank and, as a result, take greater responsibility for the learning outcomes achieved. The didactics and practice of teaching writing in L1 require modification, and methodological inspiration can be found in the latest achievements of linguistics, as shown by the example of the use of Maria Wojtak’s concept of variants of the genre pattern to counteract the schematicism of texts written by students.