THE PLURILINGUALISM CONCEPT IN THE LEARNING OF THE SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The subject of this research is the plurilingualism concept in the second foreign language acquisition in schools. When the second foreign language learning begins, students already have acquired the knowledge and techniques from the mother tongue and the first foreign language. With this concept, students develop into active researches of the language they study. Mainly through transfer, students are able to find similarities between the languages they already know and the language they learn and then connect that with the knowledge they have already acquired and memorized. Furthermore, the role of mother tongue acquisition and first foreign language is emphasized which should cause sensitivity to the language and the language learning process. The role of the teacher is of great importance, he needs to be able to inspire discussion among the students and relate all their conclusions and hypotheses into
meaningful utterances.