The importance of language culture in contemporary education
Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In the paper The importance of language culture in contemporary education, the author Jelena Stevanović, points to the status of functional style in the curriculum for 4th (final) grade of high school (gymnasium and secondary vocational school), and analyses the results which high-school students and students from non philological universities achieved in a functional style test. Her analysis highlights two important points. First, it is necessary to create a new curriculum which would not marginalize functional style - one of the three basic fields of the entire Serbian language curriculum for the secondary education - but organize it in a systematic, precise, and detailed manner. Since both high-school graduates and university students displayed insufficient knowledge of functional style in this test, and since practical application of a functional style was their main problem, it is crucial that students, especially in teacher education faculties where the language of the profession is virtually inevitable, have a mandatory subject which would teach the rules of Serbian literary language, i.e. its functional style, all in order to end the decline in the quality of oral and written discourse of young speakers of Serbian language.
Author: Jelena Stevanović
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3209549577