Naslov
Mastering morphological competence in the acquisition of Croatian as L2

Autori
Pavličević-Franić, Dunja ; Aladrović Slovaček, Katarina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Approaches and Methods in Second and Foreign Language Teaching

Urednik/ci
Akbarov, Azamat ; Cook, V.

Izdavač
Internacionalni Burč univerzitet

Grad
Sarajevo

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
187-198

ISBN
978-9958-834-07-3

Ključne riječi
communicative competence, Croatian language teaching abroad, heritage speakers, acquisition of Croatian as L2

Sažetak
During the project “Development of Communicative Competence in the Early Croatian Language Discourse” (2006-2011), a research on the mastering of Croatian as a second language was carried out among the children of Croatian emigrants to Germany. Although all participants were born in Germany and German is their dominant idiom, most of them (76.5%) consider Croatian to be their mother tongue. However, the study has shown that all participants use German as the first language of communication and their Croatian language competences are lower. This means that, despite their personal attitudes towards Croatian as their mother tongue, Croatian is in fact the second language (L2) of these speakers. The research has been carried out on the sample (N = 100) of participants belonging to different age groups and different groups according to the number of years they had studied Croatian. As Croatian morphology is one of the most difficult grammatical contents, the primary aim of the research was to investigate the mastery of the morphological competence as that segment signals the general level of the mastery of the standard Croatian language. The instrument used in this study was the Test of Communicative competence in the Croatian language. For the purpose of this paper the part dealing with the mastering of the morphological competence of the standard Croatian language was analysed. The data were analysed with the SPSS statistical analysis software. The method used was Pearson’s correlation coefficients to show correlation between the dependent variable (mastery of the morphological competence) and the independent variable (years they had spent learning Croatian). Research results will be used for the purpose of the analysis of language competences in pupils whose second heritage language (L2) is Croatian and the estimation of the successfulness of Croatian language teaching abroad.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

Napomena
Rad je kao predavanje prezentiran na skupu 2nd International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics "Intercultural lingusitic competence and foreign/second language immersive environments", održanom od 04.-06.05.2012., Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina ; objavljen u Knjizi sažetaka ; 2012 ; str. 84-85.

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