Udier, Sanda Lucija.
(2016).
Philological Approach to Teaching Croatian as a Second Language.
Croatica: časopis za hrvatski jezik, književnost i kulturu, 40(60).
pp. 139-152.
ISSN 1849-1111
Abstract
Teaching Croatian as a second language to philology majors from foreign universities
holds a prominent place within the Croatian studies as a national philology because it
takes Croatian studies beyond the national boundaries and makes its topics accessible
to foreign scholars and experts. Croatian studies as a national philology in Croatia,
either from the perspective of linguistic or language teaching group of courses, focuses
on studying and teaching Croatian language from the perspective of native speakers
(i.e. Croatian viewed as a first language). Furthermore, most scholarly research projects
related to the Croatian studies rely mostly on a theoretical rather than applied research
perspective. In spite of that, scholarly research projects realized as a part of the mentioned discipline serve as the most common and most important resource for teaching
Croatian as a second language.
This article aims to portray the implicit influence of Croatian studies as a national
philology on teaching Croatian as a second language, at the same time influencing the
formation of the so-called philological approach to Croatian language teaching that
underpins teaching methods at Croaticum ‡ Center for Croatian as a second and foreign
language.
The majority of contemporary approaches to second language teaching rely on
applied linguistics (Ellis and Shintani 2014, Loewen 2015) and start from actual, communicative needs of students who are the target group for the mentioned second language learning program. In other words, contemporary approaches to second language
teaching are mostly oriented towards creating conditions for facilitating everyday communication by using the language in question. In line with the mentioned tenet, they
normally do not entail philological contents. In contrast, philological approach to teaching
Croatian as a second language that is implemented at Croaticum and some other Croatian
or Slavic studies abroad, entails and integrates philological and general cultural contents. In this way it contributes to the status of Croatian national philology within the
contemporary international and interdisciplinary Croatian studies, Slavic studies, as
well as, generally speaking, the humanities.
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