The emergence of text production competence in the National Core Curriculum
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2023.2.5Keywords:
National Core Curriculum, communicative competence, text production, mother tongue education, content regulationAbstract
The National Core Curriculum is the highest-level common curriculum of the public education system in Hungary, which includes the necessary and indispensable content that pupils should acquire during their primary and secondary education. The present study uses document analysis to examine how and to what extent text-production competence is included in the principles and objectives, the descriptions of the fields of study and the priority development tasks of the five National Core Curricula published in Hungary so far. The study shows which knowledge of which text types is expected at different levels of education, which activities are prescribed for the development of text competence in the five documents, and also highlights how these expectations and activities have changed within the field of Hungarian language and literature during the changes in the National Core Curriculum.