Bilingual Education as an Instrument of Ethnic Minority Protection

The Case of Italian L2 in the Slovene Littoral

Bibliographic Data

ID19002123
AuthorsAnja Zorman (Fakulteta za humanistične študije , Univerza na Primorskem , Titov trg 5 , Koper, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume87
Issue87
Pages195-209
Publication date2021-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTreatises and Documents Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo Revija za narodnostna vprašanja (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0354-0286 • E-ISSN: 1854-5181
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.36144/rig87.dec21.195-209
OpenAlexW4391412308
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

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

Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Language proficiency · Likert scale · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Sociology · Vitality · Anthropology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology

Tools

Open DOIOpen Access