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Bilingual Education as an Instrument of Ethnic Minority Protection: The Case of Italian L2 in the Slovene Littoral

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: The educational system is an essential form of institutional support to ethnolinguistic vitality. In the bilingual areas of the Slovene Littoral, Italian as minority language is offered in schools with Slovene as language of instruction as a compulsory subject with the aim of educating learners for interethnic and intercultural communication. The article discusses the relationships between social and individual factors in the development of communicative competence in the minority language. Data were collected by means of a Likert scale questionnaire. The results reveal the language behaviour of Slovene speakers as age related and strongly associated to the subjective relevance of Italian in their private life. Differences in contact with Italian were also observed, however they appear to be more related to levels of language proficiency than age.

Source: Treatises and Documents Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo Revija za narodnostna vprašanja

DOI: 10.36144/rig87.dec21.195-209

Author: Anja Zorman

Institution: University of Primorska

Language: English

Topic: Multilingual Education and Policy

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4391412308

FWCI: 0.756

Cites: 15

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10