Language –teaching material for the education of returning ethnic Greek and immigrant children in Greece

Abstract

The aims of this paper are the following: on the one hand, the presentation of the theoretical framework and the purposes of the program realized by the Centre of Intercultural Education of the University of Athens, which concerns the integration into the Greek culture and society of immigrant children, Roma children and Greek refuges returning from countries of the Eastern Europe, and their linguistic development; on the other hand, the evaluation of the language education material created by the specialized scientist of the Centre of Intercultural Education for the linguistic and communicative development of the above mentioned populations and used for the implementation of the intentions of the program. The criteria of the language teaching material assessment are pedagogic, sociolinguistic, aesthetic, cultural and educational and their theoretical basis are the acculturation theory, the theories for the linguistic adequacy of the population used non standard
varieties and the principles of the communicative second language teaching.