Training teacher trainees of the Slovak language and literature teacher in a minority environment

Forms and methods of teaching a second language in a minority environment are reviewed and incorporated in new textbooks and teaching guides. Research and many studies are being conducted in order to form textbooks with a more effective impact on the communicative competence acquisition. Therefore the outcome of teaching and learning the Slovak language may be in accordance with the interest in a second, language of minority students. The aim of minority community education in Slovakia is to develop communicative competence in the Slovak language in addition to keeping the mother tongue as ethno-significant factor with its specific features and linguistic-cultural specificities of a certain ethnic minority. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.