The most common mistakes in using prepositions in the Croatian language by native speakers of the Spanish language Cover Image

Najčešće pogreške u uporabi prijedloga hrvatskoga jezika kod izvornih govornika španjolskoga jezika
The most common mistakes in using prepositions in the Croatian language by native speakers of the Spanish language

Author(s): Josipa Korljan Bešlić
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning, Language acquisition, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Pécsi Tudományegyetem
Keywords: Croatian as a foreign language; beginner language learning level; prepositions; teaching Croatian as a foreign language;

Summary/Abstract: Prepositions are an invariable type of word, but quite often used at the sentence level. The central question posed by this paper is what mistakes native speakers of Spanish, who are learning Croatian at beginner levels (A1 and A2), make when using Croatian prepositions, considering that Croatian and Spanish prepositions differ in usage. The mistakes were analyzed based on essay texts written in the Croatian Language for Foreigners course at the CEHAS program at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split. The errors were systematized according to prepositions and cases. In the final part of the paper, possibilities for eliminating and preventing this type of errors are outlined.

  • Issue Year: 4/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-59
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian
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