GLAGOLSKA MORFOLOGIJA U UDŽBENICIMA HRVATSKOGA KAO STRANOGA JEZIKA
VERB MORPHOLOGY IN TEXTBOOKS FOR CROATIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The acquisition of verb morphology presents a challenge for learners of Croatian as a foreign language for a number of reasons (such as various phonological and morphological features, or the unsystematic presentation of content in grammar books). Therefore, our aim was to analyse the presentation of verb morphology in beginner-level textbooks for Croatian as a foreign language. We based our reasoning on the communicative approach to grammar and looked at the following: a) the order of presentation of tense and modality, b) the underlying principles of presentation, and c) the methodological approach. Although textbooks differ in their approaches to verb morphology, the analysis indicates that some of them are moving toward the communicative approach to grammar, appropriately applying the principles of prototype, frequency and progression.

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