he work in question isABC metodyki nauczaniaje ?zyka polskiego jako obcego[The ABCs of Methodology of Teaching Polish as aForeign Language] by Seretny and Lipin ?ska (2005). The fact that it is referred toas the first textbook on this topic does not imply that there had been no earlierpublications with similar titles. One should certainly mentionMetodyka na-uczania je ?zyka polskiego jako obcego[Methodology of Teaching Polish as aForeign Language] edited by Lewandowski (1980), an anthology of articles theearliest of which appeared in 1966. It predominantly features studies by polonistsfrom the University of Warsaw, who, with their hands-on experience in teachingPolish in Europe and elsewhere, were the first specialists in glottodidactics in thehistory of our language to consider teaching Polish to foreigners as a subjectworthy of scientific reflection and research. Worth mentioning are such scholarsas Bronis?aw Wieczorkiewicz, Stanis?aw Skorupka, Danuta Buttlerowa, BarbaraBartnicka, Janina Wójtowicz and Jan Lewandowski. This volume bears witness tothe emerging awareness that those teaching Polish in Europe and throughout theworld require aid and their skills need to be developed by making available newstudies of the structure and didactics of Polish.