Teaching Strategies for Managing a Heterogeneous Foreign Language ClassroomPrelesnik, Petra (Avtor) Šifrar Kalan, Marjana (Mentor) Skela, Janez (Mentor) heterogeneous classroomteaching strategiesprimary schoolsecondary schoolforeign language teachingThe master’s thesis explores the issue of heterogeneous foreign language classrooms in Slovene primary and secondary schools. The thesis points out the advantages and challenges of heterogeneous foreign language classrooms followed by an array of teaching strategies for alleviating the challenges. A Likert-type questionnaire was administered to 50 primary and 57 secondary school teachers, among whom 86 teachers teach English and 30 teachers teach Spanish as a foreign language. The purpose of the questionnaire was twofold – first, to examine the challenges foreign language teachers are faced with in a heterogeneous setting, second, to identify the strategies they use to overcome them. The results demonstrate that the challenges primary and secondary teachers face overlap only partially. Moreover, it was found that English and Spanish teachers predominately use the same teaching strategies. However, teachers’ years of experience do make a difference as to what teaching strategies they use.20212021-09-23 13:34:17Magistrsko delo/naloga131229VisID: 483721COBISS_ID: 77730563sl