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Original scientific paper

The Impact of Local Speech of the Inhabitants of the Island of Vis on the Acquisition of Italian as a Foreign Language

Marijana Alujević ; Filozoski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Karla Mrčela


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Abstract

The paper contributes to the study and the preservation of local idioms of Komiža and Vis as well as to the study of the influence of Romance languages on their lexicon. In order to protect the local language heritage, empirical research was conducted among primary school students who, by means of questionnaires, indicated the extent to which they are aware of the cultural affiliation and knowledge of their native local idiom in the context of the pedagogical process. Students were asked to express their attitude toward their local speech and the potential awareness of interlingual similarities between their local idiom and Italian language on the lexical level. A translation of a short text from Italian into the local idiom was also used in order to identify Romance loanwords that build up the repertoire of everyday words used by the young population. The research also included semi-structured interviews with local teachers of Croatian and Italian who declared the presence of local idiom in the teaching process. Whether teachers in local schools on the island of Vis have the tendency to use contrastive analysis as a teaching method and whether they integrate dialectal contents into additional materials and activities was also examined. The results of the research testify to the amount of preservation and usability of the local idioms of Vis within the educational process. Furthermore, they spur the awareness of the need to use the interlingual similarities at lexical level between local idioms of Vis and Italian as the target language for didactic purposes.

Keywords

the island of Vis, local idiom, Romance loanwords, crosslinguistic influence, contrastive analysis, Italian language

Hrčak ID:

314764

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/314764

Publication date:

26.2.2024.

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