Original scientific paper

Pronunciation Assesment of Croatian as L2

Ines Šafarić
Ana Ćalušić
Vesna Mildner

Abstract

This paper presents results of a study
of assessment of pronunciation and attitudes towards speakers of Croatian as
L2. The experiment was conducted on 137 freshmen students of Croatian language
and literature and phonetics. They were asked to guess the mother-tongue of
non-native Croatian speakers and the time they have studied Croatian, and to
rate the quality of their pronunciation in various activities and situations
on a scale between 1 and 7. Ten samples of speakers of German, English,
Vietnamese, Hungarian and Spanish were used in the study and the students that
were being recorded were of different proficiency level in Croatian. The
results show English is the best guessed mother-tongue. Students have much
bigger tolerance for pronunciation in informal situations and smaller for
pronunciation of speakers on TV or radio stations.

Keywords

Croatian as a second and foreign language; assessment of pronunciation; attitudes; phonetics

Hrčak ID:

10579

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/10579

Publication date:

30.9.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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