Sedanjost Poučevanja Jezikov V Zgodovinski Perspekrivi

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AbstractThis essay deals with language teaching / learning today as seen from a historical perspective. “True” language teaching, that has begun with teaching of classical languages, differs significantly from previous, spontaneous cases. Classical language teaching is oriented toward the past and is not concemed directly with current issues of society. Since the appearance of the nation-state, classical language teaching has been superseded by teaching national languages, which is strongly oriented towards the present.The language situation in Europe differs from that in Asia by widely spread polyglotism of modem languages, based primarily on strong cultural similarities. A much weaker counterpart in Asia would be the so called East-Asian “Chinese characters’ cultural sphere”, represented by the countries sharing classical Chinese vocabulary in the written form, but which is oriented towards the past.In most Asian countries, the vehicle of modernization was colonialism, resulting in the primacy of the me...