Motivation of Lithuanian Saturday school heritage language teachers

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ID6154275
AuthorsKristina Jakaitė-Bulbukienė (0000-0001-5839-3757, Vilnius University, corresponding author), Akvilė Matulionytė (Vilnius University)
Year2024
Publication date2024-08-02
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Eurasian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1879-3665 • E-ISSN: 1879-3673
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/18793665241268282
OpenAlexW4401297477
LanguageEN
References cited7

Working (or volunteering) in a Lithuanian Saturday (or Sunday) school abroad is difficult. Teachers must balance work, family, and teaching in those schools, give up their free time to prepare for classes, and spend Saturdays working. Some of them need to find not only teaching materials, but also a place for teaching. Moreover, some parents often have very high expectations for the school—they do not speak enough Lithuanian at home, or not even at all, but they expect that the school will teach their child to speak it fluently in a half of a day. In addition, the Lithuanian language is a quite rare, non-international language for teaching and learning of which another motivation needs to be found rather than size, usefulness, and prestige. However, the number of schools abroad not only do not decrease in number, but every year more and more are established, and in more distant countries. The fact that this number of schools is growing tells us that teachers who want to take on the challenge can in fact be found. This article aims to find out why people choose to work or volunteer in these schools, what brings them there, and what keeps them there—what is their motivation. This article is based on the data of a quantitative survey about Lithuanian Saturday school teachers’ attitudes and motivation (2021–2022

Linguistics · Lithuanian · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Prestige · Sociology · Work (physics · Education Practices and Challenges · Educational Practices and Policies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology

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