Published: 2025-01-31

Para cantar coma min – poetry and song in teaching minority languages: a Galician case

Maria Filipowicz-Rudek
Zeszyty Łużyckie
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1429

Abstract

Teaching peripheral languages is not significantly different than teaching languages spoken by larger human communities, however, some fundamental aspects play an important role in the process of effective language acquisition. In the case of small languages struggling with a gradual decline in users, i.e. struggling for survival, the key seems to be fostering the motivation to start and continue learning. Language cannot, and should not, be learned only as means of communication, but taking into account its cultural identity, distinctive character in the context of languages and cultures in contact, and the legitimacy of any effort to protect the language and culture. The latter efforts also include dissemination of information and knowledge beyond the given territorial area. The author of the article bases on more than twenty years of experience in teaching Galician within the academia to present interesting applications of poetry and song in the teaching of this language, which offer an effective response to the abovementioned challenges related to the acquisition of Galician.

Keywords:

glottodidactics, minoritized language, songs, poetry, academic environment

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Filipowicz-Rudek, M. (2025). Para cantar coma min – poetry and song in teaching minority languages: a Galician case. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 61(2), 39–53. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.1429

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