摘要：Summary This work presents research designed to identify the errors made by native Italian speakers writing in Croatian as a foreign language. Stimulated by the experience of teaching Croatian as a foreign language and preliminary research among 15 Anglo-Saxon the authors were interested as to which errors would appear among 60 examinees of Italian nationality who study Croatian at three universities in Italy. It is expected that errors will appear at the level of phonology, morphology and syntax, with special attention being directed to deviations conditioned by the negative transfer of the mother tongue. Also anticipated is the incorrect structuring of sentences in the sense of word order, so that the compiled tasks are designed to test this capability. Alongside the analysis of errors on the basis of tests, interviews are conducted with the teachers who instruct the examinees. The research carried out will confirm the supposition that the greatest number of transferred deviations will occur in relation to the use of enclitic words and in the application of rules for the sequence of words in a sentence peculiar to the Croatian language. The chosen research problem is relevant in the sense that the results could be applied in practice.
关键词：Key words: Croatian language; Italian language; mother tongue; interference; negative transfer
