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Lexical features of Croatian Language textbooks for the firts grade of primary school

e reform processes in the education system of the Republic of Croatia began in 2005, and in 2019 new, competence-oriented, modern curricula of all school subjects were introduced, accompa- nied by new paradigms of teaching and assessment. ese changes are re ected in the textbooks, one of the basic sources of pupils’ knowledge. e textbooks must be harmonized with the curriculum in their content and pedagogical approach, and linguistically suitable for pupils. Textbook language appropriateness is crucial for the lower- level primary school pupils (age 6-10) since their language development is not yet complete. Serving as a source of language input for pupils, textbooks will a ect pupils’ language development, especially lexical. is paper explores lexical features of tex- tbooks for three 1st grade subjects of primary school: the Croatian language (a mother tongue), Mathematics, and Science and Society. Using the corpus linguistic tool Sketch Engine, an analysis of the textbooks’ vocabulary was conducted. e analysis showed that the textbook vocabularies di er quantitatively (by the number of words they contain, the length of texts, and the mean sentence len- gth), as well as qualitatively (by the representation and frequency of individual words).

textbooks ; Croatian language ; lexical diversity ; lexical density ; vocabulary

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