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ENGLISH IN CROATIA - A GLIMPS INTO PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

In the paper a short history of teaching English as a foreign language in Croatia is presented. It is strssed that English always went its own way, apart from the traditional ways other foreign languages, predominantly German and French , had been taught English kas been officialy introduced into curriculum of the Croatian schools only after the World War II. The present of English in Croatia has been investigated and presented by the researhers that took part in the Project English in Croatia. However, the author of the present article expresses some of her own pinions . As for the future, it seems to be optimistic because of a lot of enthusiasm on the side of both researhers and practicing teachers who want to make most of the oportunities offered so far by the state of the art in the applied linguistics and the related disciplines.

English; project; research; teacher; foreign language

Rad je objavljen i na hrvatskom jeziku u istom broju na str. 8-16