Beliefs and attitudes of teachers of secondary education regarding the teaching of modern Greek as a foreign language, and the role of ICTs

Abstract

This research focuses on attitudes and beliefs of professors of secondary education regarding the teaching of Modern Greek as a second/foreign language to students. Initially, are mentioned the multiculturalism models and the basic principles of intercultural education. It is very important to distinguish the mother language (L1) from second (L2) and foreign (FL) language and to find the factors that influence their acquisition or learning. In the research part, is described the research methodology and the main purpose of research. More specifically, the sample of survey was 70 professors of Greek language and the research tool was the questionnaire. The attitudes of teachers are investigated with correlation to gender, level of education and years of teaching experience. Finally, follows the results in comparison with the results of other similar researches. Although teachers seem to support and apply to a large extent effective teaching practices for an intercultural education, do not seem to feel ready to support non-native speaker students in learning Greek. Therefore, it is necessary to be made radical changes to educational system in order to tackle assimilation and help teachers have confident to promote a real multicultural education.