Publications

Publication details [#52688]

Nikolov, Marianne, Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović and István Ottó. 2008. A comparative study of Croatian and Hungarian EFL students. Language Teaching Research 12 (3) : 433–452.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural context | foreign language acquisition | language proficiency | testing

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study demonstrates that Croatian 8th grade students perform significantly better on English as a foreign language (EFL) proficiency tests than their Hungarian peers, even though Hungarian learners start earlier, with more frequent English classes, and in smaller groups.