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ELT Journal 2006 60(4):346-354; doi:10.1093/elt/ccl025
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Awakening to languages in primary school

Soca Fidler

Soca Fidler has been involved in language teaching at all levels in Slovenia for thirty years. In the past seven years, she has coordinated a programme for Teaching English to Young Learners at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana. She has published mainly in the areas of language portfolio and plurilingual language awareness. She is now working with the National Education Institute on introducing the plurilingual language awareness approach into the primary school curriculum

Email: soca.fidler{at}guest.arnes.si

This article reports on the Slovene share in the European project called Janua Linguarum—The Gateway to Languages. It highlights its forerunners and its outcomes, and gives an illustrative example of how primary school students encounter and explore various languages by using a relatively novel, plurilingual approach. All the materials produced as part of this project were trialled in class, and the feedback from students, their parents, and teachers has been extremely favourable. An attempt will also be made to put the Slovene evaluation into the wider context of the European project.


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