Digital technology strongly shapes the modern world, its usage also has an important role in the first years of primary school education. Traditional teaching methods are replacing and supplementing modern teaching methods, one of which is teaching with the help of digital technology. D. Volčjak and M. Žveglič (2017) claim that using digital technology is one of the major factors of lifelong learning. Usage of digital technology is stressed even in the Curriculum for the Slovene language (Program osnovna šola, 2018). During the pedagogical practice we noticed that Slovene grammar and orthography is still taught in a classic way and that is why we wanted to find more interesting and modern ways of implementing digital technology for these educational contents. In the master’s thesis, therefore, we decided to research language classes, in which to include interactive videos, which concentrate on the students and engage them to be mentally active and increase their interest for the classes. We used the videos from the freely accessible web page Videoslovenščina, which started to operate in December 2021 as a part of The Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, project Developing language skills and consolidating the knowledge in the 4th year of Primary school using the interactive video explanations (Mejač and Pintar, in print). It is based on 18 videos with interactive tasks made in H5P. The common thread of videos are the stories, which include teacher’s motivation and students’ individual process of realization (Mejač in Pintar, in print). In the empirical part, a research in two parts was performed among the 4th grade students of primary school. In research A (qualitative research) we wanted to know if there is a difference in knowledge between the group of students who learnt how to write proper names in a traditional way and the group of students who learnt the same contents using interactive videos from the web page Videoslovenščina. In research B (quantitative research) we used a survey to assess how content the 4th grade students were with the usage of interactive videos in classes. Based on our findings, the conclusion comprises of guidelines for teachers, how to implement the videos in language teaching, so the classes are more enjoyable, active, and productive for students. Our aim is that the research has a great impact on the didactics of the Slovene language development.
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