CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF TEACHING ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN A MULTICULTURAL CLASS
CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF TEACHING ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN A MULTICULTURAL CLASS

Summary/Abstract: This study has been devised having several reasons as a starting point. A teacher of Romanian as a foreign language must be able to understand cultural diversity in a multicultural class. There is no precedent of this type of class in the Romanian educational system. Due to immigration, the world has become “a small village”, therefore Romanian teachers have had to adapt to this new sociopolitical context. During communism, Romanian teachers had mostly monocultural classes (with very few exceptions in certain areas in the country) and thus students had many things in common, in theory. Nowadays, in multicultural classes, teachers of Romanian as a foreign language are facing several challenges and they have to use communication skills and a thorough cultural background.

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