Police and Security, Vol. 18 No. 3, 2009.
Professional paper
Foreign Languages in Police Offlcers' Education
Dragica Dragičević
; Police Academy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Croatian direct contacts with native speakers of European languages have a very long history because in the past some parts of contemporary Republic of Croatia were under the governance of Austro-Hungarian Empire as well as Italy. Foreign language learning has become obligatory in Croatian schools and colleges in the second half of the 18th century. The cooperation between experts and scientists requires a good knowledge of foreign languages. Police, as a specific field of profession, require a special language for police purposes. However, there are a lot of differences between the general language and the language for special purposes. It is not sufficient to memorize only the lexis, but also to know the word and structure formation and their functioning. The comparison of four European languages will show the difficulties and complexity of foreign languages for police purposes and the reason why they have to be taught in a systematic and methodical way in secondary schools and colleges as well.
Keywords
police; foreign language; language for special purposes; noun; nominal structures
Hrčak ID:
79356
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Publication date:
15.12.2009.
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