ZAGREB, Oct 10 (Hina) - About 85 percent of Croatian elementary schools have applied for a project of teaching foreign languages from the first grade, officials of the education ministry said at a news conference in Zagreb on
Monday.
ZAGREB, Oct 10 (Hina) - About 85 percent of Croatian elementary
schools have applied for a project of teaching foreign languages
from the first grade, officials of the education ministry said at a
news conference in Zagreb on Monday. #L#
Of the 829 primary schools in the country, 705 have applied for the
project and the ministry has given the green light for the
implementation of the programme in all the schools.
Most of the parents (85.5 percent) have opted for English. The
German language was chosen by 14.3 percent of parents. Only 0.1
percent of parents opted for Italian and French.
Under the project, from the fourth grade pupils will learn a second
foreign language as an optional subject. Forty-two percent of
parents would like to see their children learn German as a second
foreign language. German is followed by English (33.6 percent of
parents), Italian (22.4 percent), French (two percent) and Spanish
(0.1%).
The ministry approves school curricula, while schools choose
languages which will be taught to children. The final choice is a
compromise between parents' wishes and the school's possibilities
as regards the employment of foreign language teachers, the
ministry said.
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