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Linguistic environment - incentive or obstacle for learning Croatian

The processes of acquiring and learning a language are intertwined in the course of early childhood, first it is a spontaneous process and then the process of learning linguistic rules starts: grammar, writing, orthography and vocabulary. Practically it means development of language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking. Through the language and communication, a child learns about the world. Extralinguistic factors are also important: linguistic environment, level of parent’s education, time spent in the kindergarten etc. In this research, it is our goal to examine parents' and pupils’ attitudes (N=42) towards learning Croatian as the language of the environment in international American International School of Zagreb (Croatia). Also, we examined pupils’ language competences in Croatian. (N=15).

acquiring language, learning language, Croatian language, attitudes, language competence

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