Review article
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.51.3.2
Interdisciplinary Research in Education – Examples from Foreign Language Education
Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
orcid.org/0000-0002-9430-7526
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Department of English, Croatia
Abstract
This review paper focuses on research carried out in the field of foreign language education.
After an introduction in which she defines foreign language education as a research field, the
author discusses different approaches to researching topics related to the processes of foreign
language learning and teaching. In order to make the current trends in Croatian research
studies more transparent she first resorts to analysing the Croatian foreign language education
research from a diachronic perspective. The central part of the paper contains detailed
analyses of research carried out within three broader research topics in foreign language
education: early learning of foreign languages, affective factors and language learning strategies.
In the analyses she first describes major international studies, and then focuses on those
made in Croatia. At the end of the paper the author offers her view of future trends in foreign
language education research.
Keywords
foreign language education; early learning of foreign languages; attitudes and motivation; foreign language anxiety; language learning strategies
Hrčak ID:
115062
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Publication date:
3.2.2014.
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