THE TRIADIC MODEL FOR MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY: SEMIOTIC, TRANSLATIONAL, AND HUMANISTIC DIMENSIONS IN ECO, MILIČ, AND ÇABEJ
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Umberto Eco, Jolka Milič, Eqrem Çabej, Ur-Fascism, contemporary Slovenian youth literature, picture books, ideology, language teaching methodology, semiotics, humanistic linguistics.Abstract
The aim of this article is to present the Slovenian translation of Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism (1995), translated by Jolka Milič. While this essay is widely recognized, it is less well known that Eco also wrote three short contemporary fairy tales addressing ecology, pacifism, and anti-war themes, published in picture book form. Eco’s theoretical framework is employed to analyse the fourteen characteristics of Ur-Fascism as reflected in selected contemporary fairy tales by Slovene authors. The study integrates the linguistic and pedagogical contributions of Eqrem Çabej, whose pioneering research on the historical development and structure of the Albanian language persists in shaping linguistic pedagogy across the Balkans, within the broader context of modern language instruction methodologies. The paper proposes a Triadic Model for Modern Language Teaching Methodology, a framework that integrates critical semiotics, intercultural awareness, and linguistic humanism in contemporary education, by amalgamating Eco's semiotic theory, Milič's translational mediation, and Çabej's humanistic linguistics.
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