Descrizione
In the settlement area of the Slovene national and linguistic minority in Italy the situations in
which Slovene language varieties are used are scarce. The main share of the responsibility for
developing effective communication skills in Slovene is therefore transferred to the didactically
structured environment. This paper examines the obstacles faced by educational institutions
in developing communicative competence in Slovene, the extent to which these obstacles are
tackled in the didactic-methodical structure of Slovene lessons conducted at Slovene-language
schools in Italy, and the manner in which this is reflected in national examinations, the matura
examination, i.e., a school-leaving examination at the end of the upper-secondary school, and
the INVALSI examinations for different levels of schooling. The paper outlines the guidelines
for conducting communication-based lessons and offers an example of good practice, namely a
lesson plan developed within the project EDUKA 2 – Cross-Border Governance of Education.