The article deals with changes in the linguistic situation in Latvia. The main focus is here at the reactions on this changes in school. The linguistic conditions in Latvia are described and the socio-linguistic situation are examined. Particularly introduced are the changing role of foreign languages in the school and the shift of their status. Furthermore the pedagogical orientation of the teaching of foreign languages are explained. Then the discussion deals with revisions of the curriculum

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... n the field of foreign languages under consideration of that socio-linguistic and intercultural orientation, that shall support the learning of foreign languages in Latvia in a way which orientates toward the learners. Under this circumstances priority is given to the development of the personality and the integration into society. This leads to reformulated aims in the field of foreign languages: discovery and support of everybody's opportunities of individual development, the creation of possibilities and conditions for such a self development and the task to accustom everybody to the use of his own possibilities and his own experiences in the examination of the real surroundings and the linguistic diversity. (DIPF/Orig.)