Attitudes towards multilingualism and knowledge of the language of the community as an element of the educational policy in Kosovo and Metohija
Abstract
The paper starts from the adopted European concept of multilingualism and lists the results of its application in Serbia‘s language policy. The results are shown of the research into the attitudes of the students in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija towards foreign language learning, as well as learning the language of the other ethnic community. The research was conducted at the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 on the stratified quota sample among the students in Kosovska Mitrovica and Priština, by applying the field survey technique. According to them, it can be concluded that both populations are aware of the need to learn one (English that is dominant) or more foreign languages, the knowledge of which is relatively well self-evaluated; however, there is no developed awareness of the need to know the language of the other ethnic community, so there is a pronounced opposition to its introduction in the schooling system.
References
Đurić, Lj. (2016). Foreign Languages in the Educational Policy of Serbia. Beograd: Univerzitet u Beogradu, Filološki fakultet. [In Serbian]
Filipović, Ј, Vučo, Ј, Đurić, Lj. (2008). Critical Review of Language Education Policies in Compulsory Primary and Secondary Education in Serbia, Current Issues in Language Planning, 8 (2), 222–242. https://doi.org/10.2167/cilp103.0
Ignjačević, A. (2006). The English Language in Serbia. Beograd: Filološki fakultet. [In Serbian]
Kasumi, H. (2016). The implementation of Kosovo Curricula regarding the English Language Teaching. Conference: ICLLC International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Priština, (2014–222) Volume 1.
Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe, 2017. Available at: http:// eacea.ec.europa.en/education/eurydice/documents/key_data 10/11/2017
Lisbon European Council, Presidency Conclusions, 2000, March 23th–24th. Available at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/summits/lis1_en.htm 05/06/2014
Milosavljević, S., Radosavljević, I. (2000). The Basics of the Political Science Methodology. Beograd: Službeni glasnik. [In Serbian]
Pavlović, M. (2003). Education in Serbia 1945–1950. In: R. Petković, V. Krestić, T. Živković (eds.) Education among Serbs throughout Centuries. Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Društvo istoričara Srbije i Istorijski institut (289–305). [In Serbian]
Petrović, J. (2016). On the methodology of implemented empirical research (information on sample, instrument and field implementation). In: U. Šuvaković, J. Petrović (eds.) Students in the North of Kosovo & Metohija: The Results of Empirical Researches (9–18). Kosovska Mitrovica: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Prištini. Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzVmKuYYMVVqSkxBUTJBSmZiblk/view?resourcekey=0-zUHdOpRi1aYGkocbabOJow [In Serbian]
Pušić, Lj. (2008). An Image of Multiculturalism in Vojvodina: Language as a Condition for Communication, Sociologija 50 (2), 175–190. DOI: 10.2298/SOC0802175P [In Serbian]
Reljić, M. (2011). Cryptoglossia as Part of Linguistic Practice of the Slavophone Population of Kosovo and Metohija, Južnoslovenski filolog 67, 241–254. DOI: 10.2298/JFI1167241R [In Serbian]
Šuvaković, A. (2018). Results of European Multilingualism Policy in the First Decade of the 21ST Century in the Member States of the European Union and Serbia, Srpska politička misao No. 2/2018, 99–113. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22182/spm.6022018.6 [In Serbian]
Šuvaković, A. (2019). Communication as a Necessary Factor of a Collective Remembrance of the Common Life on the example of Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, Zbornik Matice srpske za društvene nauke, No. 171 (3/2019), 327–339. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/ZMSDN1971327S [In Serbian]
Šuvaković, U. (2004). Political Parties and Global Social Goals. Beograd: Treći milenijum [In Serbian]
Šuvaković, U. (2019). Ethnic Distance among the Students of Serbia, RUDN Journal of Sociology 19 (2), 203–2011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2019-19-2-203-211
Šuvaković, U., Petrović, J. (2016). Ethnic Distance of the Students in the North of Kosovo & Metohija and in Belgrade. In: U. Šuvaković, J. Petrović (eds.) Students in the North of Kosovo & Metohija: The Results of Empirical Research (45–55). Kosovska Mitrovica: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Prištini. Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzVmKuYYMVVqSkxBUTJBSmZiblk/view?resourcekey=0-zUHdOpRi1aYGkocbabOJow [In Serbian]
Tripković, M. (2005). Multiculturality, Multiculturation and Minority Rights. Sociološki pregled 39 (1), 81–95. DOI: 10.5937/socpreg0501081T [In Serbian]
Vučković, B. (2021). Media Transmission and Preservation of the Serbian Cultural Identity in the Territory of Kosovo and Metohija (1999–2015) (doctoral dissertation). Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Prištini, Kosovska Mitrovica. Available at: https://nardus.mpn.gov.rs/handle/123456789/18844 [In Serbian]
Vučo, J (2006). In Search of Own Model of Bilingual Education, Inovacije u nastavi, 19 (3), 41–54. Available at: http://www.inovacijeunastavi.rs/wp-content/uploads/arhiva/2006/INOVACIJE_3_06.pdf [In Serbian]
Vučo, J., Šuvaković, A. (2010). Analytical Review of Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. In: D. Maliković (ed. in chief) Kosovo and Metohija in Civilizational Flows, vol 1, S. Miloradović (ed.) Language and Folk Tradition (43–60). Kosovska Mitrovica: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Prištini. Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzVmKuYYMVVqU1JiN2VwWkpST2c/view?resourcekey=0-tBVmnM5GQA-0DfKmYvTbTQ [In Serbian]