Perspektywa komunikacyjna jako warunek językowej biegłości

The object of observation is the situation of Polish school in a fast changing world. The author pays attention to often only declaratory changes in ways of teaching, the lack of treatment of the student and the adaptation of teaching methods and materials. There are excessive encyclopaedism, a stress on acquisition of knowledge of descriptive grammar in terms of language education. It notices a necessity to develop pupils’ language skills, because a communication skill may be extremely important in everyday and future adult life. The use of sociolinguistic perspective in Polish language teaching is the way of developing pupils’ communicative competences. Implementation of the students to build and analyse statements taking into account a communication context and also transceiver roles. In the article there have been presented sample lesson solutions, which emphasizes the use of the language in situations close to pupils and avoiding encyclopaedism. It pays attention to the depth of the processed information that serves learning and memory, and also the relationship between teaching methods and the development and functioning of the brain.