TIRANA, August 27 – About 170 primers are known in the history of the Albanian language, which played a role for national unity, the education and training of Albanians, wherever they used to reside. But from now pupils of the first grades in Albania and Kosovo will learn with the same primer. The printing of the joint Albania-Kosovo primer has started in Albania, while in Kosovo it has been completed and started to be distributed to be in the hands of students soon.
Mimoza Gjokutaj, Tereza Babasuli, Naser Zabeli, and Saranda Bozhegu are the authors of the joint primer. The media of Kosovo, where the primer has started to be distributed, have published the cover of the primer. Kosovo media write that the common primer will first be distributed to the schools of the country’s villages and then to those of Pristina.
The Ministry of Education in Tirana informed that the printing of the first textbook in Albania has not yet been completed, which will be inaugurated on September 1, on the first day of school in Kosovo. In a special ceremony, the new joint primer will be presented, and the Minister of Education, Evis Kushi, and her counterpart, Arberie Nagavci, are expected to attend this event.
Mimoza Gjokutaj, one of the authors of the new primer, is quoted by News24 as saying that the joint Albania-Kosovo primer is a text that first preserves the historical tradition of learning the Albanian language in its standard level. Gjokutaj spoke of the features of the new edition, which, according to her, are related to contemporary methods of writing and reading, has a new content that reflects the new social-national context, relies on interactive teaching activities, and is accompanied by the digital version, a model that is applied for the first time.
Regarding the dialects spoken in Albania and Kosovo, Gjokutaj said that they are an inexhaustible source of the Albanian language and many of their forms are included in the lexicon of this text.
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