Terapeutyczne aspekty nauczania języka obcego dzieci ze specjalnymi potrzebami edukacyjnymi (na przykładzie uczniów z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną w stopniu lekkim)

The paper is an attempt to present an overall approach to special educational needs as revealed by children with mild intellectual disability in the course of learning a foreign language. It presents the results of an action re-search study conducted among primary special school pupils. The research aimed at identifying the possible range of basic skills involved in learning a foreign language, and in addition, determining the degree to which the foreign language stimulates the use of the mother tongue by those children. The paper also presents the limitations on the therapeutic aspects of teach-ing foreign languages to learners afflicted by intellectual disability.