REVIEW OF THE ACQUISITION OF THE GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF NOUNS IN MACEDONIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Macedonian as a foreign language is a special area (of study) of the Macedonian language in general which deals with the acquisition of Macedonian language as foreign. Learning and acquiring Macedonian as a foreign language has five decades-long tradition. Linguists and Macedonists make efforts to offer more to the study of Macedonian as a foreign language, namely, by doing researches which result in numerous papers available in the scientific literature for Macedonian language. Contribution to the development of Macedonian as a foreign language is also made by finding ways, i.e. approaches through which the grammatical categories of nouns would be more easily acquired. Therefore, in this respect,we decided to give a brief overview of the analysis of the aquistion of the grammatical categories of nouns in Macedonian as a foreign language, more specifically for the adoption of gender, number and determination.Keywords: Macedonian as a foreign language, nouns, grammatical categories of nouns, tests, exercises