Kluczowe dane dotyczące powszechności nauczania języków obcych w podstawowym i średnim szkolnictwie w krajach zachodniosłowiańskich – stan na rok 2012

The following article entitled Key Data on Teaching Foreign Languages in West-Slavic Countries (2012 status) demonstrates a range of carefully selected data on the provision of foreign languages at primary and secondary schools across the three West-Slavic countries, i.e. in Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic. The data have been selected from within the findings of the in-depth report entitled Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe 2012, published by Eurydice and Eurostat in strict liaison with the European Commission. The report includes a range of detailed educational data from 32 European countries (27 of them belonging to the European Union, 3 of them being the part of the EFTA/EEA area, and 2 other countries standing for the EU at the time). Having presented the selected data in a range of clear tables, the author of the article makes an attempt at drawing constructive conclusions regarding the nature of the phenomena taking place across the educational systems in Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic – all in reference to teaching/learning foreign languages these days.