Positive Aspects of Plurilingual Competence of the Foreign Language Teacher

Abstract

The focus of this article is the multilingual approach to foreign language teaching, in this case German language. In order to find out in which way the mother tongue and the first foreign language affect the learning process of second foreign language,a questionnaire was applied with students from Serbia, whose mother tongue is Serbian, L2 is English, while German represents L3. The research was done with first year students (N = 120) from the departments class teacher, pre-school teacher and boarding school teacher at the Faculty of Education in Jagodina, which can be one of the practical solutions for integrating plurilingualism and interculturalism into the school system.