Attitudes Towards Teaching FL Segmental Phonology in Polish Public Schools: A Pilot Study

Citko, Michał Bartłomiej

doi:10.2478/slgr-2025-0013

Abstract

In this pilot study, 113 EFL teachers in Polish public schools (both primary and secondary level) were asked two types of questions: attitude questions concerning segmental phonology – orthography problems, and testing questions examining teachers’ knowledge of the English phonological system and grapheme-phoneme correspondence. The responses show that even though teachers are (declaratively) aware of the problems, they think the problems can either resolve spontaneously or are not that relevant. The responses also show greater focus on orthography over segmental phonology in their teaching practice. Such attitudes coincide with teachers’ poor knowledge of the phonological system and grapheme-phoneme correspondence. The results of the pilot encourage the use of a teacher attitude survey (TAS) together with a teacher knowledge survey (TKS) in a future study. This would allow performing a comprehensive statistical analysis of the results and finding possible correlations between teacher’s knowledge and their attitude towards teaching segmental phonology.

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Attitudes Towards Teaching FL Segmental Phonology in Polish Public Schools: A Pilot Study

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