Review article

Official assessment of Croatian as L2

Sanda Lucija Udier ; Zagreb, Hrvatska
Zrinka Jelaska ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

It is essential to know Croatian
language to function successfully in Croatian society. Assessing the
language knowledge of non-native speakers is a serious, demanding and
extensive job. Knowledge of Croatian for non-native speakers has to be
objectively tested for different purposes: university application,
foreign diploma and degree notarization, getting work or permanent
residency permit, citizenship etc. This paper deals with linguistic and
sociolinguistic premises which should be fulfilled in order to create,
standardize and professionally perform exams of Croatian language on an
official level. It is an extremely important issue in the time when the
Republic of Croatia is making progress towards the European Union, as it
was the case with other European countries at the same phase of their
European integration process. Beside the systematic outline of
linguistic and extra linguistic premises for official and professional
Croatian L2 assessment, the purpose of this paper is to show it's
different interdisciplinary aspects and its complexness.

Keywords

language politics and legislation; testing knowledge of Croatian for non-native speakers

Hrčak ID:

34723

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/34723

Publication date:

30.12.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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