ABSTRACT
Many teachers are interested in various innovations and enhancements in the field of education.
They are profoundly convinced that the process of teaching / learning languages should be modified
and enriched in order to meet both global challenges and students` growing expectations. There is an
abundance of teaching / learning techniques, methods, strategies, and suchlike. However, everyday
observations (at least in the Polish educational system) emphasize that the most widespread model of
teaching foreign languages is instructing, drilling, telling what and how to do, ordering to memorize
vocabulary. There are a few reasons excusing such a model, for instance, insufficiency of financial
means supporting Polish education or reluctance to try out innovative teaching / learning models. On
the other hand, in order to be reserved in leaping at inferences, it is reasonable to admit that there are
more and more teachers who take advantage of new, more effective teaching aids, methods, solutions
or models have been more and more noticeable.
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( Received 02 February 2015; accepted 26 February 2015
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