Međukulturalnost i kako nas vide drugi
Intercultural competence, or how the others see us

Summary/Abstract: The goal of learning and mastering foreign languages is to develop com­municational competence. Apart from liguistic, sociolinguistic and pragma­ linguistic, this also involves cultural competence. According to the CEFR, cultural competence is aquired by improving skills such as open-mindedness, curiosity and tolerance. These skills help learners to connect the foreign culture with their own and to play the role of a muticultural mediator. One of the crucial preconditions to achieving intercultural competence is overcoming collective as well individual stereotypes. In order to find out whether there are any stereotypical images about Croatia and Croatians among foreign students, the authors conducted surveys among Slavic/Croatian philology students at foreign universities. The goal of this research was to facilitate the implementation of an intercultural instruction approach for Croatian as a foreign language.

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