“Educazione linguistica nella scuola albanese del secondo millennio”,

– After the overcome of the state of emergency which arose in the years of transition in Albania (1991-2000) the educational system has been the subject of radical reforms in terms of universities and school system. In the field of linguistic education new methods have been accomplished too. Finally, one became aware that the teacher’s ability and expertise is not solely determined by his pure knowledge of the curriculum but depends in a much higher degree on his educational strategies which enable the student to develop not only a learning aptitude but to create a critical personality. This modern psychoeducational approach which takes into consideration the students’ intellectual development yields tremendous effects in teaching Albanian as L1 and other foreign languages. Since up-to-date theoretical considerations were missing for a long time in the field of language teaching, teachers felt impelled to simply base on memorizing techniques. For a long period teaching mother tongue as well as foreign languages was primarily conducted on written texts. Only in recent times new approaches based on the latest findings in language teaching have been adopted.