Teaching and learning the language of the neighbour country : tools for mainstream primary education in the Slovenian-Italian border areaCavaion, Irina Moira (Avtor) neighbourg langagesteachinglearningmultilingual border regionlinguistic autobiographyEuropean language policyThe article presents two central tools for teaching neighbour languages in border areas within the didactic framework of the Contact-Based-(Neighbour-)Language-Learning-andTeaching method (CoBLaLT, Cavaion 2015; 2016; 2019), namely a teacher’s guide to contact-based neighbour language teaching and the digital portfolio ‘My multimedia autobiography of crossborder contacts’ for pupils aged 11 to 15. They were developed as part of a postdoctoral project between 2017-2019 in the Italian-Slovenian border region. The article highlights the importance of making language teaching research a collaborative process between a strong scientific and professional community that thus fosters innovation and effectiveness of methods and contents in neighbour language learning.20222022-04-12 11:21:55Neznano15013slKoprsko primorje (Slovenija); Italija; Copyright (c) 2022 Irina M. Cavaion