Attitudes of Parents Toward Learning Foreign Languages – a Slovene Case Study

• Authors: Sabina Lešnik , Mihaela Brumen , Milena Ivanuš Grmek

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with different attitudes parents have toward learning foreign languages in primary school. The main goal of the research was to determine the attitudes of parents towards learning foreign languages and whether there is a difference in their opinions depending on their level of education. The research was conducted on a group of parents of ninth-grade pupils attending Slovene primary schools (N = 200). Based on the results of our study, we found that the attitudes of parents towards learning foreign languages are fairly positive. A detailed analysis of the results, however, shows that there are differences in the attitudes of parents depending on the level of their education. Higher educated parents are more inclined to support learning foreign languages than parents with a lower level of education.

Keywords

EN

foreign language; parents’ attitudes; primary school; parents’ education

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 34
• Pages: 52-62

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Sabina Lešnik

• Primary School Malečnik

author

Mihaela Brumen

• University of Maribor

author

Milena Ivanuš Grmek

• University of Maribor

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.13.34.4.04

Biblioteka Nauki

16530325