Please join us in congratulating Dr. Artur Gałkowski on his open-access monograph “Onomastic Competence in the Teaching and Use of Italian as a Second Language. The Polish Context”.

The monograph presents the results of research conducted for glottodidactic purposes from the perspective of teaching and use (learning/application) of Italian as an L2 by Polish students and users. Italian is one of the foreign languages taught in public education institutions, language schools, and universities in Poland, including departments of Italian studies and language courses in other disciplines.

The book consists of three chapters in which the author provides a comprehensive scientific discussion on integrating onomastic competence with other competences in the Italian language teaching. The aim is to validate the efficacy of this approach for enhancing the students’ language skills and cultural awareness.

The study’s major outcome is the conviction that the objectives to be achieved as a result of onomastic competence should be explicitly integrated into the process of teaching Italian L2 at different levels of knowledge and didactisation, within the framework of Italian realia, including linguistic units (also proper names).
The postulate to establish onomastic glottodidactics as one of the branches of language education leads to the conclusion that this field of glottodidactics is a result of cooperation and a part of a broader humanistic perspective that aims at introducing and integrating onomastics with interdisciplinary areas of science and pedagogy, including the didactics of foreign languages.