Original scientific paper

ENGLISH IN CROATIA – FROM NEEDS TO ACHIEVEMENTS

Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović ; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Vesna Bagarić ; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku

Abstract

The paper focuses on the aims and research methodology of
the Croatian national project English in Croatia. The authors, one of whom headed
the research team, point out that reasons for such a project are connected with the
need to conceptualise FL education policies on the basis of research-based insights
instead of what has been common practice up to now – on unverifi ed individual
intuitions. The authors also explain at length the choice of measuring instruments
used in the project. They stress that the Hungarian battery of tests used represent
measures validated in a similar socio-educational context, that they make possible
comparative studies of the same phenomena and that the communicative tests in
the battery, aiming at the CEFR A2 and B1 levels, coincide with the language
communicative competence set out by the Creational national curriculum. The
paper offers a detailed description of the piloting of all the instruments used.
Besides the new insights about the status of English in Croatia, the authors
also draw attention to some additional project results concerning development of
new research competences in the fi eld of FL education investigations.

Keywords

CEFR levels; assessment of affective learner characteristics; assessment of communicative competence; pre-testing of instruments

Hrčak ID:

26941

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26941

Publication date:

14.5.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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