The enhancement of state and foreign language teaching to national minorities in Georgia
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Multilingual Education, Georgia, ethnic and language minorities.Abstract
This article discusses the results of the research carried out within the frame of a joint project of two faculties Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Psychology and Education) ‘’Elaboration of Multilingual Education strategies for integration of ethnic minorities into society’’ and focuses on the degree, quality and effectiveness of competence in the Georgian and English languages revealed by non-Georgian speaking students enrolled in Georgian Universities within the frames of the programme referred to as 4+1.
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