Kultura u nastavi hrvatskoga kao stranog jezika
Culture in teaching of Croatian as a foreign language

Summary/Abstract: Foreign students who are studying Croatian language at the universities abroad have the perception of Croatia as a country of natural beauties, folklore and folk music, where there was a war, catholic country, the country of successful sportsmen, divided between nationalism and Yugoslavian nostalgia. The Croatian cultural identity is not recognizable. There are many reasons for this situation in practice, but only a few of them define the nonexistence of unambiguous definition of culture, moving the borders between so called elite and popular culture, the complexity of Croatian cultural identity, not adequate competence of the lecturers teaching Croatian culture abroad, nonexistence of systematical methodic of Croatian as a foreign and second language, the diversity of functioning of high school institutions abroad, the teaching of wider philological slavistics programs so called Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, insufficient number of lexicons and manuals on Croatian culture abroad etc. To improve this situation into raise level of cultural competence on the level of language competence, the programs of Croatian language abroad should be dedicated to the enclosure of the Croatian culture in the teaching of Croatian language from the very beginning with the special accent on the Croatian history in its continuity. Only such programs of Croatian language which contain a clear concept of Croatian culture and which are performed by lecturers with an adequate cultural competence are the guarantee for the conserving of Croatian language and its way to interculturality in multilingual and multicultural community of European languages.

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