Slovene in higher education: should the question be worded and defined in Slovene?

Abstract

Prispevek predstavlja in komentira trenutno stanje in razumevanje stanja slovenščine kot učnega jezika na slovenskih univerzah, s tem pa tudi položaj slovenščine kot jezika znanosti. Prav znanstvena slovenščina lahko zlahka potrjuje, da je jezik izraz konceptualizacije lastne misli, tj. lastnih miselnih zmožnosti naroda. Torej znanstveni slovenski jezik za svoj razvoj potrebuje stalne objave na najvišji intelektualni ravni in hkrati kvalitetne učbenike z jasnimi opredelitvami slovenske terminologije; predstavljeno je trenutno stanje naštetega. The paper presents and deliberates on the current state of Slovenian as the language of instruction at national universities as well as its status as the language of science. Technical Slovenian straightforwardly confirms that language is the expression of our own conceptualized thought, i.e., the nation’s own mental capability. The development of technical Slovenian depends upon regular academic publications and high-standard textbooks in which Slovenian terminology is clearly defined and presented; this paper reviews the status of all recounted points.