The participants of the project were education and training workers who already have experience working with foreign language students and currently have foreign language pupils in their classrooms or schools. In Zagreb, for example, there are foreign language pupils enrolled in 19 elementary and 12 secondary schools from 25 countries.
After two years of work on a Strategy on Learning and Instruction of Croatian as a Foreign Language project, the Education and Teacher Training Agency, in collaboration with the K-Education project office in Zagreb (KulturKontakt Austria), held a closing conference in Zagreb on 11 September 2012 to present the results, the experiences of participants, work methods, a collection of papers and a network of thirty trained education and training workers for the instruction of pupils who are entitled to receive education in Croatia but who do not know or are not proficient in the Croatian language.
The purpose of this project was to provide professional training for teachers and instructors of Croatian, classroom teachers, professional associates and directors that teach pupils for whom Croatian is not a mother tongue, i.e. for whom Croatian is a foreign, second or inherited language.
The participants of the project were education and training workers who already have experience working with foreign language students and currently have foreign language pupils in their classrooms or schools. In Zagreb, for example, there are foreign language pupils enrolled in nineteen elementary and twelve secondary schools from twenty-five countries.
The project and the results of the two-year training were presented by project leaders Marijana Češi and Sanja Milović, a senior advisor with the Education and Teacher Training Agency and Christine Okresek of the K-Education project office in Zagreb.
A collection of papers entitled The Foreign Language Pupil in the Croatian Language Environment—A Framework for Including Foreign Language Pupils in Training and Education in Croatian was presented at the closing conference written by the project participants and published by the Education and Teacher Training Agency. Find the handbook and more information at http://www.azoo.hr.