Čiliaková, Ružena2025-12-192025-12-1920251897-23492657-5760https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/1168In: Eunomia : rozwój zrównoważony - sustainable development. Raciborz : Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa, 2025. ISSN 1897-2349. Vol. 110, no. 2 (2025), pp. 163-171.The author deals with the importance of cultural aspects as supporting elements in teaching Slovak as a foreign language. The research focuses on the views and pedagogical practices of Slovak language teachers and volunteers working abroad at various levels of education. The aim was to find out their views, to what extent they consider the cultural environment to be the basis of teaching, and what methods and approaches they use to integrate them into the pedagogical process. The results indicate that the majority of respondents perceive the cultural context as a key factor in motivating students, building their language skills, and deepening intercultural understanding. In this regard, the principles of education for sustainable development play a crucial role in shaping teaching strategies that integrate cultural heritage into language education, fostering long-term linguistic and intercultural competence among Slovaks living abroad. Nevertheless, they also point to certain challenges, such as the lack of appropriate didactic materials or the time-consuming nature of teaching preparation. Author presents the educational material system "Let's play about Slovakia in Slovak" as innovative teaching materials for Slovak as a foreign language (mainly for Slovak living abroad) as outputs of the project financed by The Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic.enCC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0. Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessvýučba cudzích jazykovcudzojazyčná výučbaforeign language teachingkultúrne prostrediecultural environmentskúsenosti učiteľovteachers' experienceobsahová integráciacontent integrationinovácieinnovationsmetodicko-didaktické materiályArticle