Interdisciplinary Research in Education – Examples from Foreign Language Education

U navedenom radu govori se o istraživanjima u glotodidaktici. Nakon uvodnihnapomena o glotodidaktici kao interdisciplini i njezinom dosadašnjem razvoju usvijetu i u Hrvatskoj, autorica daje pregled pristupa istraživanju različitih tema vezanihuz proces učenja i poučavanja stranoga jezika. Analizu situacije u Hrvatskoj izvodi najprijeiz dijakronijske perspektive, kako bi se lakše mogli razumjeti suvremeni trendoviu hrvatskim studijama. U središnjem dijelu rada autorica detaljnije analizira studije iztri istraživačka potpodručja glotodidaktike: rano učenje stranih jezika, afektivni faktorite strategije učenja stranoga jezika. Pri analizi svakoga potpodručja najprije se opisujuglavne studije provedene u različitim dijelovima svijeta, a potom istraživanja u Hrvatskoj.Rad završava opisom predviđenih trendova u budućim istraživanjima.This review paper focuses on research carried out in the field of foreign language education.After an introduction in which she defines foreign language education as a research field, theauthor discusses different approaches to researching topics related to the processes of foreignlanguage learning and teaching. In order to make the current trends in Croatian researchstudies more transparent she first resorts to analysing the Croatian foreign language educationresearch from a diachronic perspective. The central part of the paper contains detailedanalyses of research carried out within three broader research topics in foreign languageeducation: early learning of foreign languages, affective factors and language learning strategies.In the analyses she first describes major international studies, and then focuses on thosemade in Croatia. At the end of the paper the author offers her view of future trends in foreignlanguage education research