The Shaping of Applied Linguistics and the Emergence of Glottodidactics

This article focuses on the development of glottodidactics understood as a scientific discipline concerned primarily with teaching and learning foreign languages, as well as language acquisition, foreign language teacher training, and the design of teaching materials. We investigate the origins of glottodidactics and its gradual isolation from applied linguistics, we look at its research areas and problems it encounters as it emancipates from other sciences. Finally, our attention is turned to the achievements of glottodidactics in Poland.