Albanian Language Pedagogical Dictionaries and Their Importance in Explanation of Pedagogical Terms

Abstract

Numerous connections exist between language and pedagogy, which has prompted linguists and methodologists to compare the evolution of pedagogical terminology in all its components in educational institutions. From the point of view of the way of their creation and evolution, linguists emphasize that both pedagogy and language, are based on a set of rules, so they are systems. In this paper, various pedagogical dictionaries are observed: Dictionary of pedagogy, Dictionary of Terms in Education, Pedagogical Dictionary, published recently in Albanian language. The object of the analysis focuses on a) the construction of pedagogical dictionaries underlining the tendency that appears in recently published dictionaries including the term and its definition and b) on the ways of terms formation included in the corresponding dictionary, pointing out how the ratios between these approaches have changed in the different dictionaries and the trends that are observed. The analysis treats issues that appear in terminological dictionaries in the field of pedagogy. In conclusion, it is pointed out what is mandatory to be considered in drafting future terminological dictionaries in the field of pedagogy.

Received: 12 April 2024 / Accepted: 22 June 2024 / Published: 8 July 2024