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How much grammar is enough? – learners’ grammatical competence in first and foreign language at the end of primary education

The aim of this paper is to examine learners’ grammatical competence, more precisely morpho- syntactic aspect of that competence, in Croatian as mother tongue and grammatical competence in English as a foreign language. The results of this research indicate that it is crucial to pay attention to learners’ individual differences, circumstances and factors in evaluating linguistic-communicative level in educational context especially when developing curricular documents since they provide the framework for teaching, task design and evaluation of learning outcomes. The results will give insight into developmental patterns of morphological acquisition as an element of grammatical competence of learners of Croatian as a mother tongue and English as a foreign language. The results might encourage teachers to rethink their approach to designing teaching materials aimed at developing grammatical as well as communicative competence.

grammatical competence, first language, Croatian, EFL, compositions

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