ROMÁN NYELV TANÍTÁSA AZ ERDÉLYI MAGYAR KISEBBSÉGNEK
TEACHING ROMANIAN LANGUAGE TO THE TRANSYLVANIAN HUNGARIAN MINORITY

Author(s): Imola Katalin Nagy, Gabriella Kovács
Subject(s): Language acquisition, School education
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: teaching Romanian language and literature; Hungarian pupils in Romania; textbook analysis; post-communicative language teaching;
Summary/Abstract: Romanian language and literature is a compulsory subject for students of the Hungarian minority in Romania. The teaching of Romanian to Hungarian children and its shortcomings is a controversial and much-debated topic among teachers, parents, researchers, and policy-makers involved in the process. In recent years, several attempts have been made to bring about the expected paradigm shift in the teaching of Romanian in order to allow Hungarian pupils to learn Romanian as a foreign language. This has been successfully introduced in the elementary classes, but there is a significant difference in the levels and content of the textbooks for the 4th and 5th grades, which causes serious difficulties for 5th graders. Our study presents the initial stages of a textbook analysis. We examine the extent to which one of the textbooks available for 5th graders follows the methodological shift of communicative and post-communicative language teaching and makes use of the possibilities offered by the learners’ linguistic repertoire.

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