The process of language acquisition including the Croatian language begins in the second trimester of pregnancy. The process continues with the child starting school, as the morphological and syntactic knowledge becomes automated only around the age of 11/12. A child starts its institutional learning at the age of seven, or in the first grade of elementary school, entering the phase of concrete thinking operations which ends around the age of 11/12 with the onset of the abstract period. That is why in this early period, language should be taught using strategies that will encourage the development of communicative competence and language learning on the basis of concrete examples. The process of acquiring language is primarily affected by c...