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Starting from the need to analyse and to classify the lexical changes in the Italian language caused by the new dynamics in the field of employment, the goal of this paper is to collect an adequate corpus of neologisms, to analyse and to compare them to their Croatian equivalents. The corpus consists of the expressions …

Stolac is a little town in Lower Herzegovina and the center of the town district of the same name in the Hercegovacko-Neretvanska County. Since the Stolac area, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina in general, was not systematically researched by onomasticists, a more thorough approach was necessary. Thus this paper employs mostly fi eld research …

The paper approaches giftedness as a pedagogical problem. A research was conducted with the aim of establishing whether Split primary school Croatian language teachers differ in the perception of personal (in)competence when working with gifted students. This takes their experience and working internship into account. It was established that only working with gifted students contributes …

The paper presents the research results on the lower primary-school teachers’ relationship towards their pupils’ native (Chakavian) dialect, as well as towards native dialect cultivation in lower classes of primary school. The survey was conducted in primary schools in the city of Split and on the island of Korcula (Blato and Vela Luka) in 2011. …

The topic of this article is to identify some Croatian linguistic elements that can function as initial discourse markers and to compare them to the equivalent elements in the Italian language. The insufficient representation of their discourse usage in Croatian and Italian dictionaries and grammar books is pointed out by the authors. Some of the …

Games are some of the initial learning methods which provide new cognitions through personal experience. In the higher grades of primary school and in secondary schools there is no room for games in the teaching process. However, certain groups of subjects make use of some characteristics of games in such manner that they have become …

Dominance of one language as a prime means of communication worldwide and too frequent usage of its words loan in many offi cial languages has been causing disputes among linguists and mother tongue experts especially in European countries. The process of globalisation through which one language has evolved into a global or world language has …

The first Dalmatian newspaper of an administrative-political character, „Il Regio Dalmata – Kraglski Dalmatin”, was published from 12th July 1806 to 1st April 1810 as a bilingual (Italian-Croatian) publication. The Croatian text translated from the Italian original did not relate to the whole content, but just to those parts that were considered to offer particular …