Lingvistička kompetencija nasuprot komunikacijskoj kompetenciji u ranojezičnome diskursu
Linguistic Competence in Contrast to Communicative Competence in Early Language Discourse

Summary/Abstract: In the institutional mother tongue learning, in early language acquisition phase, language also serves as a communication basis for other subjects and as a prerequisite for the development of both linguistic and psychosocial abilities. From all participants of that educational process are expected to have both linguistic knowledge about grammar norms (linguistic competence or knowledge about language) and communicative competence related to functional applications (knowing how to use language). Through theoretical analysis and study of early language discourse in practice, this paper attempts to answer an important linguistic, didactic and psychological question - is it more purposeful to base the learning/teaching of Croatian on developing linguistic competence or to pay greater attention to the communicative-functional approach? Will we promote in early language discourse the acquisition of so called declarative grammatical knowledge, or, will we developed metalinguistic and metacognitive abilities which include conditional knowledge and encourage general communicative abilities?

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