Word Order in Teaching Slovenian as a Foreign Language Based on a Sample Text About a Slovene–Austrian Sustainable Mobility Project

Abstract

As experience shows, word order is a challenging syntactic topic in the teaching of Slovene as a foreign language. As a linguistic foundation, the paper summarises well-established findings on Slovene word order and outlines categories involving free and fixed word order positions. The linguistic rules are illustrated with examples drawn from a newspaper article on an Austrian–Slovene sustainable mobility project, thereby linking cognitive and affective learning objectives. The paper also includes exercises designed to consolidate word order patterns based on the text about the aforementioned Austrian–Slovene sustainable mobility project. These exercises are suitable for use at elementary to advanced levels of Slovene instruction (CEFR A2 and above).