Understanding of the scientific discourse among the students of the Slovene language

Posljednjih se godina hrvatski jezik u Sloveniji sve manje razumije, što se vidi čak i u slavista. Razlozi za to jesu političke, društvene, socijalne i kulturološke naravi. Jedan je od zadataka lektorata hrvatskoga jezika osposobiti studente slovenistike za čitanje, slušanje i razumijevanje i znanstvenih tekstova, pri čemu dolaze do izražaja mnoge leksičke prepreke. Na osnovi eksperimentalnoga istraživanja književnopovijesnog i lingvističkog teksta pokušat ćemo odgovoriti na ova pitanja: a) koje lekseme iz općeg i znanstvenog jezika studenti ne razumiju, b) razumiju li smisao teksta usprkos nerazumijevanju pojedinih leksema, c) kakve prijevodne ekvivalente studenti navode uzimajući u obzir kontekst, d) kakvi su prijevodni ekvivalenti "nepoznatih" leksema u postojećim Jurančičevim rječnicima i na kakve probleme studenti nailaze služeći se njima.Since one of the tasks of the Croatian language lectorate is to enable the students of the Slovene language to read, listen to and understand the scientific texts as well, we wanted to find out which lexical barriers the students are confronted with. On the basis of the experimental research into the literary-historical and linguistic texts, the following conclusions can be drawn: a) the students find it more difficult to understand a literary-historical text, b) unknown lexemes in both texts belong to the general lexis, c) although they do not understand the individual lexemes, the students understand the meaning of both texts, d) on the basis of the context they find it easier to find the translational equivalents from a linguistic text and e) translational equivalents of the unknown lexemes in the existing dictionary by Jurančič are unreliable. The teaching of the Croatian language as a foreign language would be improved by: a general dictionary of the standard Croatian language intended also for the non-native speakers of Croatian, new bilingual Croatian-Slovene and Slovene-Croatian dictionaries and frequency lists