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The Attitude to the New Approach to Teaching Cases Proposed by the Croatian Language Curriculum
Vesna Bjedov
; Osijek, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The paper is based on the questionnaire
of teachers' attitudes towards a new approach to Croatian language Case
teaching which has been proposed in the new Croatian curriculum. There were
498 participants who are teachers of Croatian in primary schools (5-8 grade,
ages 10-15) in eastern Croatia, its five counties (županija) with their
capital towns Osijek, Vukovar, Slavonski Brod, Požega and Virovitica. Part of
the questionnaire was analysed, especially on the participants attitudes after
the new approach was introduced to them, their own application of it in their
teaching (the questions for nouns and other declinable word were asked
separately), and the change of their attitude after their own experience in
class. Teachers answered about the positive and negative effects they
presupposed and experienced. The results were analysed according to the five
counties. They were compared according to the following criteria: being
informed, interest, inclination to trust the curriculum makers, willingness to
take the challenge, consistency and change of attitudes. It was interesting to
find not only that counties differed according to the mentioned criteria (some
were by far more interested in answering, willing to try and positively
oriented after their personal experience), but a minority of the teachers were
not aware of their own prejudices. They had answered the part concerning the
change of the attitudes after their own personal experience of the new approach
in teaching, and given that they did not apply it in teaching, according to
their own words, were in effect ineligible to answer at all. Although a lot of
teachers still have either an ambiguous attitude or cannot characterise their
attitude easily, many of the teachers that have applied the new approach have
changed their attitude into positive one.
Ključne riječi
Croatian language; teaching; grammar; Cases; questionnaire
Hrčak ID:
45251
URI
Datum izdavanja:
14.10.2009.
Posjeta: 5.196 *