The Greek Language as a Foreign Language: “Playing… With the Language, Playing… for the Language”

Abstract: The communicative dimension of language, which prevailed in the “New” School, is strengthened — and it should so — in the context of a school of multicultural awareness and learning, that now defines (to some extent) essence of both the modern — but absolutely monolingual — Greek school and monolingual or multilingual foreign language schools of other European countries. Thus, students with different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds in the Greek school, as Greek students abroad too, aim to learn Greek as a second or — mostly — as a foreign language in a school educational process that necessarily follows the developments of today’s society. The purpose of this presentation is to expound a didactic genre-based approach (task-based) proposal in teaching of modern Greek as a foreign language at level A2. This didactic scenario aims at the possibility of socially now identified students to meet daily communication needs, in short, to meet the absolutely necessary daily communication (personal information, daily needs, family, entertainment).

Key words: second/foreign language, multiliteracies, task-based learning, social identities