A REFLEXIVE-COLLABORATIVE EXPLORATION OF BEAUTY THROUGH READING

Abstract

Teaching Romanian as a foreign language to foreign citizens in a one-year academic programme, which was especially tailored for foreigners who plan to study in Romania, is always challenging and fully linked to the student-centered education principle. Thus, for teachers working with students from The Romanian Language Preparatory Year it is crucial to find functional, useful methods in order to enable the students’ critical thinking, develop knowledge, activate and contextualize vocabulary items of general use and introduce specific terms. Building learning and producing language are targets which need to be set. As a result, our paper is meant to expose some suggestions of how to explore beauty and learn Romanian through the means of the reflective-collaborative learning frame.