STATE LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR HUNGARIAN MINORITY IN SLOVAKIA

This study examines the characteristics of the teaching of the Slovak language in schools with Hungarian as the language of instruction in Slovakia, analyzing the factors that affect the teaching process and discussing the legal framework of education in Slovakia. An analysis of the place of the Slovak language among the school subjects is also given, together with an outline of the national school curriculum of the teaching of Slovak Language and Slovak Literature, as it is regulated by law in Slovakia, at the various educational levels. An analysis of the national school curriculum of the teaching of the Slovak Language and Slovak Literature as a school subject is also provided in order to get an insight into the acquisition of reading and writing competencies in the Slovak language [1] [2]. The curricula and the textbooks are analyzed from a methodology of teaching point of view. The study points out some problems arising from the lack of a theoretical foundations for [3], [4] as well as from acquiring writing and reading competencies in Slovak as a second language in developing Slovak language competencies at the first and second stage of Hungarian-language primary schools in Slovakia.