Latgalian in Latvia
| pre-primary education | primary education | secondary education |
| Nautreni Secondary School |
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Nautreni Secondary School
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| Contactperson | Nellija Zogota |
| Website | http://skola.nautreni.lv/index.htm |
| Total number of teachers | 25 |
| Total number of pupils | 225 |
| Languages taught as subject | Latvian (2/3 hrs), English (3 hrs), Russian (3hrs) , German |
| Languages of instruction | Latvian |
| Languages used outside formal lessons | Latgalian |
| Skills trained in the minority language | Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing, mediation (= all sorts of communication in which a language user acts as an intermediate, e.g. translation, paraphrase, summary) |
| Availability of the teaching material | Bad; teachers and students have just ABC, grammar book, Latgale: valoda, literatura,folklora by J.Kursite, A.Stafecka |
| Quality of the teaching material | Good; the mentioned books are made by professionals |
| Developers of the teaching material | Publishing houses |
| Remarks |
Our main problem is the lack of sufficient teachting materials. We would like to cooperate with schools in different countries facing the same problems of teaching and studying minority languages, for example, in Estonia- Viru language, in Poland- Kashubu language, in Lithuania- Žemaiciu language etc. |
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