摘要：In the Croatian educational context, a special challenge is teaching the Croatian standard variety in non-Štokavian contexts where children are expected to either master two codes or gradually shift from their native to the standard code, which is often very distant from their first variety at the structural level. Departing from the idea that language policy consists of language ideologies, language practices and language management (Spolsky 2004, 2009), the aim of the paper is to analyze language practices of primary school students in the Makarska Coast region in formal and informal domains, especially in and out of school, and to determine in what ways language practices are related to attitudes towards standard variety and local speech, i.e. which are the dominant ideologies internalized by Makarska primary school students that influence their attitude towards local speech, frequency and contexts of its use. The analysis of language practices of primary school students is based on the material collected during the field research conducted in 2018 and 2019 in Makarska Coast region. Part of the data was collected by means of a sociolinguistic questionnaire, and part through ethnographic research, which included interviewing teachers as some of the crucial stakeholders in language management process in local contexts.
关键词：Makarska Coast; language management; formal education; language ideologies; standard variety; local varieties
