THE IMPACT OF HOMEWORK ON THE QUALITY OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS AT AN EARLY AGE
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At the time when Serbian education system is in a deep crisis, it is necessary to consider all aspects of the teaching process that could contribute to a timely remedy. The goal of this paper is to inspire current and future teachers of foreign languages to reflect on and question the established educational practices and to constantly improve them, in order to raise the quality of education in our country to a higher level, which would inevitably lead to raising general cultural and pedagogical awareness. One of these conventional practices is assigning homework by default, according to an established pattern, without devoting too much attention to the goals and purpose of such tasks, and about the potential impact of inadequately designed activities on the motivation and attitudes of young learners towards the foreign language they are learning, as well as their language proficiency (Holland et al. 2021). On the other hand, meaningful and purposeful activities, given at the right moment, can only contribute to raising the quality of learning and teaching.
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