THE BALKAN LANGUGES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS OF CROATIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

VOL. 55, BOOK 1, PART B, 2017, pp. 299 – 309 Full text (Hr)

Author: Ivančica Banković-Mandić

Affiliation: Univerisity of Zagreb

Abstract

The paper presents the relationship between the Croatian language and the Balkan context from a student’s perspective as regards established linguistic, geographic and cultural-historical frameworks. The paper discusses the term Balkan languages and provides a statistic analysis of the awareness and skills of exchange students of Croatian as a second and a foreign language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. A comparison is drawn with the data on the same issue, provided s by native speakers of Croatian – students of Croatian language and literature and students of other language teaching departements.

Key words: Balkan languages, Croatian language, language attitudes