Kształcenie kompetencji akademickich w zakresie prowadzenia projektów badawczych (na przykładzie programów praktyk dla studentów polonistyki Przykarpackiego Uniwersytetu Narodowego im. Wasyla Stefanyka)

The article analyses the development of academic competence in conducting research projects (on the example of internship programmes for students of Polish Studies at the The Precarpathian National University). During the internship, students improve their socio-cultural skills, closely intertwined with communicative competences, with respect to various spheres and stages of life of local Poles who are bilingual. Fostering translation competence while working on authentic utterances delivered in the Borderland dialect is an example of the practical applicataon of qualitative methods in the students’ training during the internship. Listening to and transcribing authentic texts is facilitated by conversations held with bilinguals. The trainees try their hand as researchers through the possibility of participating in modern research in dialectology and sociolinguistics. Such attempts not only enhance the development of linguistic competence, but also general competence of the students.