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Word Associations in English as L1 and L2
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Marina Auguštin The organization of the human mental lexicon has been explored for many years through various psychological experiments. This paper focuses on exploring and comparing the first- and the second-language mental lexicon with the help of a word association test. Native and non-native (Croatian) speakers of English provided their associations to twenty words written in English, which were then analysed according to a modified version of a categorization system proposed by Tess Fitzpatrick. This...
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Working Memory in Word Recall
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Dunja Ševerdija The goal of this thesis is to determine whether a component of working memory known as the phonological loop and its rehearsal mechanism are naturally employed by participants when performing a free recall task. Before it delves into the specifics of the research, it offers a brief overview of existing working memory research, the phonological loop model and its function. It takes a look at free recall and the effects that often occur in the results of free recall tasks, namely primacy and...
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World of (English and) Warcraft: Prospects of learning English through MMORPGS
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Franko Jagorinec In the recent years, there has been a surge in research studies dedicated to prospects of learning English through video games, specifically MMORPGs. As video games grow in quality and popularity, so does their potential for learning English. Today, more than ever, MMORPGs focus on interaction between players as well as facilitating community building and cooperative gameplay via new and interesting gameplay mechanics. They provide authentic linguistic input as well as strengthen willingness...
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Writing skills development in L1 and L2: Perspectives of Croatian learners of English
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Matea Šuljak The acquisition of writings skills does not come naturally, it is a skill that needs to be taught, even in the mother tongue. An important question is whether pupils adopt the acquired practices in the second language once the writing skill is acquired in the first language. The aim of this paper is to compare the process of acquiring writing skills and common practices in L1 (Croatian) and L2 (English) from the student’s point of view. The first part of the paper looks into the most...
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XLV. govor sv. Grgura Nazijanskog u latinskom prijevodu Nikole Petrovića
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Marta Kontić Cilj rada bio je prije svega prijepis, a usto i kontekstualna obrada i analiza XLV. govora ("Εἰς τὸ ἅγιον Πάσχα") sv. Grgura Nazijanskog (4. st.) u latinskom prijevodu korčulanskoga humanista Nikole Petrovića (15./16. st.). Rad obuhvaća životopise obojice autora, osvrće se na njihov književni rad i donosi kratku bilješku o sadržaju samoga govora. Analizirane su stilske i jezične osobitosti Petrovićeva prijevoda te tehnike kojima se koristio prilikom prevođenja, a...
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You know, I mean: A Corpus Study of English Verbs of Cognition as Pragmatic Markers in Spoken Academic English Discourse
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Marta Bušelić The thesis explores using the cognition verbs know and mean in pragmatic markers you know and I mean in spoken academic discourse. For this purpose, the first part of the thesis is dedicated to discussing the notion of pragmatic markers and resolving the terminological issues of discourse markers versus pragmatic markers. Next, the class of cognition verbs is presented regarding especially its grammaticalisation and pragmaticisation with their specificity in representing mental processes....
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YouTube kao digitalna banka sadržaja
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Damir Sirković U ovom radu bit će pojašnjen rad YouTubeovog algoritma za distribuciju i promociju sadržaja
te način na koji se korisniku prikazuje i predlaže određeni sadržaj. Algoritam za distribuciju
integralan je dio YouTubea koji mu omogućuje da funkcionira kao digitalna banka sadržaja,
te da taj sadržaj automatizacijom proslijeđuje korisnicima. U uvodnom dijelu razmatraju se
povijest YouTubea, nastanak algoritma te princip njegova rada. Središnji dio rada bazira se
na obradi...
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Young YouTubers: Multimodality and Language Variety
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Petra Nizek The usage of the English language among the young speakers of other languages is often debated and discussed. This paper explores the usage of the English language in YouTube videos made by four young Croatian YouTubers. The goal of the paper is to show that the English language usage in this context can be explained through the concept of the community of practice and its three criteria: mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and shared repertoire. The analysis of twenty-four videos in total...
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Yōkai Kaidō kao dio turističke ponude Ōboke kanjona otoka Shikoku - perspektiva lokalne zajednice
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Marija Lakić Cilj ovog rada je predstaviti, analizirati i interpretirati lokalnu zajednicu kroz Yōkai Kaidō kao kreativni turistički projekt koji je zajednica pokrenula, osmislila, izradila i kojeg samostalno održava. Kritičkim osvrtom na literaturu, odlaskom na terensko istraživanje i polustrukturiranim intervjuom s glavnim organizatorima, opisan je nastanak, tematika, uzroci, posljedice i potencijal ovog eksperimentalnog projekta. Karakteristike lokalne zajednice i način života je oslikan kroz...
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Za ili protiv života na selu?
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Tihana Kuzmić Odlazak mladih sa sela predstavlja veliki problem za egzistenciju hrvatskih sela. Smanjenje broja mladih u seoskom stanovništvu uzrokuje senilizaciju stanovništva i postepeno propadanje sela. Odlazak visokoobrazovanog stanovništva još više pogoršava socio-demografsku sliku seoske populacije. U ovom radu prikazali smo rezultate istraživanja koje je provedeno 2020. godine na uzorku studenata 6 fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Cilj istraživanja je utvrditi žele li se studenti nakon...
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Zabranjeni, rizični i strašni, simbolički i stvarni prostori djetinjstva
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Maja Popinjač Ovaj rad za cilj ima predstaviti, analizirati i protumačiti simboličke i stvarne prostore koje odrasli ili djeca smatraju zabranjenima, rizičnima i strašnima s ciljem reprodukcije ideje suvremenog djetinjstva. U radu se propituju načini na koji se takvi prostori konstruiraju te odnos djece i odraslih prema njima. Fokus je stavljen na načine kontrole i discipliniranja djece zastrašivanjem. Tematski okvir rada predstavljaju pitanja vezana uz sama metodološka polazišta, zatim pitanja o...
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