Abstract
Norwegian and Scandinavian languages in general have grown quite popular among Polish students in recent years and more and more Polish universities are trying to offer Bachelor’s and even Master’s programmes in a Scandinavian language.
 Based on experience as a teacher of a Norwegian grammar course at the University of Szczecin and as a teacher of grammar at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences which in 2016/2017 hosted around twenty Erasmus+ students from Szczecin, some of the challenges for Polish students of academic Norwegian will be reflected upon, as well as some of the challenges for a teacher of Norwegian who has very little knowledge of Polish. The main purpose of this paper will be to argue for the importance of grammar skills in language education and especially in language teacher education. This study is a contribution to the Educational Role of Language network.
Highlights
This paper was presented at the Second International Conference “Educational Role of Language, Social and Cultural Determinants” at the University of Gdansk in June 2017 (ERL 2, 2017)
The Division of Research on Childhood and School at the Department of Education organises an international network of researchers (ERL Network, 2017) that collaborates in order to answer a variety of questions related to the educational role of language (ERL)
The present contribution to the ERL network has its background in the situation that Norwegian and Scandinavian languages in general have grown quite popular among Polish students in recent years, with an increasing number of Polish universities offering undergraduate and even graduate programmes in a Scandinavian language
Summary
This paper was presented at the Second International Conference “Educational Role of Language, Social and Cultural Determinants” at the University of Gdansk in June 2017 (ERL 2, 2017). The present contribution to the ERL network has its background in the situation that Norwegian and Scandinavian languages in general have grown quite popular among Polish students in recent years, with an increasing number of Polish universities offering undergraduate and even graduate programmes in a Scandinavian language. I have been a teacher of Norwegian grammar at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences where we in 2016/2017 hosted around twenty Erasmus+ students from Szczecin. The main question in this paper is as simple as asking what a language teacher needs to know. We will look at some more questions related to the goals of the ERL network
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