ABOUT JUSTIFIABILITY OF ESTABLISHING NEW DEPARTMENTS FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE IN BiH

Abstract

UDK 378.014.15.096:811.411.21(497.6)

We discuss the issue of justifiability of establishing new departments of Arabic language in BiH in the existing context of the Conception of nine years primary education and the Outline teaching plan and programme for primary schools in FBiH wherein Arabic language is given the equal status with all the other World languages in our schools, thus securing a prospect for employment for more graduates of these departments. Inadequate position of Arabic language is not a result of imaginary resistance of primary schools towards this language, but it is result of a lack of activity in more extensive and continuous promotion of this language and our expectations that someone else will improve the position of Arabic language in relation to other foreign languages. Presently, the number of profiled teachers of Arabic language is insufficient to cover schools in all the Cantons that have implemented the programme for teaching Arabic language. Larger number of personnel is required to be engaged in  creating an awareness of parents, students and schools, and thus initiate teaching of the Arabic language and secure working places for themselves, which have otherwise been vacant for more than ten years.