VYUČOVANIE SLOVENČINY V ČASOPISE SLOVENSKÁ REČ

The aim of the paper is to summarize and characterize the contributions in the Slovenská reč journal that have covered the issue of Slovak language teaching in the journal’s 90-year history. We analyse 82 contributions related to the teaching of Slovak at all stages of school education. This mostly comprises teaching Slovak as a mother tongue; scant attention is also paid to Slovak as a foreign language. The analysis shows that the development of opinions on Slovak language teaching reflects not only the linguistic and pedagogical thinking of the time, but also the historical milestones that Slovak society has gone through over the past ninety years. This is also related to the intensity of interest in the issue of teaching. In the Slovak Language journal, the issues of teaching Slovak were most intensively addressed in the period from the founding of the journal in 1932 to 1955, when a total of 69 articles were published. Only 13 articles have been published in the past sixty-seven years. The interest or rather the lack of interest in teaching issues has had specific causes and manifestations in each period.