Oral statements of primary school students in Polish language classes – analysis of (selected) rhetorical skills in the context of research and educational practice

Abstract

The new curriculum for Polish primary school emphasises strongly on rhetorical skills of pupils, along with their language skills. In the paper we confront those assumptions with the everyday practice in the classroom. We analysed the utterances of 7th-grade pupils, which required from them the argumentative skills as well as selecting literary examples, with the focus on the obligatory readings material. The subject of our analysis was the diversity in topics and examples provided by pupils in spontaneous utterances, analytical and deductive skills of pupils and their linguistic awareness. In result we point to the problematic areas and propose solutions.