Sub-Department of Croatian Language

First and last name

Dubravka Smajić, Ph.D.

Profession

Associate Professor

Email

dsmajic@foozos.hr

Office number

48

Research interests

Contemporary Croatian Language and Its Functional Styles, Norms, Syntax, History of the Croatian Language in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Dialectology

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Dr. Dubravka Smajić, PhD, an Associate Professor, was born in 1961 in Osijek. In 1984, she graduated from the Faculty of Education (Pedagoški fakultet) in Osijek, specialising in Croatian language and literature. In 1985, she began working at the Faculty's teaching practice school at Franjo Krežma Primary School in Osijek.

From 1997, she worked at the Faculty of Education (Pedagoški fakultet) in Osijek, teaching in the Teacher Education and Preschool Education Programmes. She currently teaches the same subjects at the Faculty of Education (Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti) in Osijek, where she offers courses in Croatian Language, Language Culture, Croatian Language and Communication, Functional Styles in Language Communication, and Public Speaking.

She defended her Master's thesis in Philology titled Exclamation and Its Expression in the Croatian Literary Language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2001. Her doctoral thesis on The Grammars of Mirko Divković was defended in 2006 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.

In 2020, she was appointed Associate Professor. She is the Chair of the Department of Croatian Language at the Department of Croatian Studies, Faculty of Education, Osijek.

Dr. Smajić has collaborated on scientific projects such as Child and Language Learning and Croatian Language as Part of the National Identity of Bilingual Minority Communities (within the scientific programme Croatian Philology and Border Areas), led by Dr. Irena Vodopija.

She is a member of the Scientific Council for Education and Schooling at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU). Since 2023, she has been the Head of the Department of Croatian Language at the Croatian Philological Society. As part of the Croatian Language Department at the Osijek branch of the Croatian Literary Society, she has regularly participated in the informational campaign Language Phone for many years. She is also a member of the Organising Committee for the international scientific conference Child and Languages Today (from 2001 to the present) and has served as editor or chief editor of the first five volumes of conference proceedings. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Jezik (Language).

Along with colleagues, she established the centre of the European Consortium for the Certificate of Achievement in Modern Languages (ECL) for the Republic of Croatia in Osijek and conducted ECL exams in Croatian as a foreign language.

She has delivered lectures at teacher professional meetings in Croatia and Hungary, organised courses on Croatian language culture for students at the University of Osijek, and presented at public events as part of Croatian Language Days.

Dr. Smajić has presented at scientific conferences both in Croatia and abroad.

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First and last name

Emina Berbić Kolar, Ph.D.

Profession

Full Professor

Dean

Email

eberbic@foozos.hr

Office number

Dean Office and office no. 29

Research interests

Croatian Language, Dialectology, Communications, Sociolinguistics, Media Literacy

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Emina Berbić Kolar was born in Slavonski Brod in 1976.

In 2000 she completed the study of Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Osijek. In the 2000-2001 academic year, at the same Faculty, she enrolled in postgraduate studies of the Croatian Language and Literature in the Context of Central European Languages and Literature, focusing on Linguistics. In January 2007, she enrolled in a PhD Research program and received her PhD in 2009 with the topic “Speeches of Slavonian Dialects in the Brod Region”.

She has studied at home and abroad (Japan, Turkey, Great Britain, Finland, Germany, Austria, Norway, Hungary, Spain, France, and Australia).

In October 2010, she became the first Croatian language teacher in the study program entitled Balkan languages at the Trakya University.

She was the head of the University doctoral study ”Educational Sciences and Perspectives of Education” from October 2020 to October 2022.

In 2022, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Education.

She teaches several courses: Croatian dialects, Native idiom, Written and oral communication, Croatian language and communication, Public speech, Linguistic cultural heritage, Language and communication skills. At the doctoral study, she teaches Humanistic Heritage Themes in Education and Language and Identity in Education.

She has written more than a hundred professional and research papers and co-authored six books: The Memory Culture of Slavonski Kobaš in the historical-linguistic context, Siče Words, Lexicon of Slavonian folk medicine, Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: definitions, approaches and Guidelines, From Idea to Change: A Guide to Starting a Community Service Learning Program, Jump to the Media Literacy.

She is a member of the editorial board of many international and domestic journals: Evkonyv, Oral History, Social Sciences and Humanities, Danubis Noster, Educational Role of Language, Insan Bilimleri Dergisi, Life and School, and Pannoniana.

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First and last name

Jadranka Mlikota, Ph.D.

Profession

Email

jmlikota@foozos.hr

Office number

64

Research interests

Croatian language, language history, standardology, media language, Croatian-Hungarian philological permeations

Jadranka Mlikota was born on July 15, 1974 in Osijek, where she completed her primary and secondary education and afterwards graduated from the Faculty of Education, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (1998).

She received her doctor's degree at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2009) on the topic of Syntactic possibilities purpose in standard Croatian language. Since 2005 she has been teaching courses in Modern Croatian Standard Language at the Croatian and German Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Since July 2024, she has been employed at the Faculty of Education, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek.

Her scientific field of interest is directed towards the syntax and semantics of the contemporary Croatian language, the language of the second half of the 19^th century, the breaking of the norm and the normative relationship between the Zagreb and Vukovians' schools of philology, the reflections of that relationship in the language of literary works, and Croatian-Hungarian philological permeations.

As a collaborator, she was involved in the scientific research project Language and Style of Regional Periodicals (since 2005), in two institutional scientific projects of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek: Hungarian Parts of Croatian Grammaticography in a Digital Environment (2022)  and Digitization of Croatian Grammatical and Paremiological Materials (2023), in two international projects: EFOP-3.4.3-16-2016-00022 "QUALITAS Minőségi felsőoktatási-fejlesztés Sopronban  és Szombathelyen”  ("QUALITAS Development Activities for Quality Higher Education in Sopron and Szombathely ") and GIP-Project Traces of the German Language, Literature and Culture in Croatia (DAAD-Project no.: 57338369).

She is currently a collaborator on the project Croatian-Hungarian Written Heritage (uniri-iskusni-human-23-131) of the Faculty of Humanities and

Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka. She was the manager of the project Croatian-Hungarian Linguistic Contacts in the Second Half of the   19^th century (UNIOS IZIP-2014-26).

She is the author of the scientific monograph Slavonian Tkanica: Language of Native Authors of the19^th Century (2014), co-author of the scientific monograph Hungarian Parts of Croatian 19^th Century Grammaticography (2021) and co-author of the expert book Croatian Language Tips (2014). She participated in more than forty scientific meetings and published about sixty scientific and professional papers. She has also worked professionally as a member of editorial boards, a member of professional societies and organizations, and as a reviewer. From 2005 to 2010, she was a member of the Linguistic Department of Matrix Croatica Osijek, and from 2015 to 2019 a member of its Supervisory Board.

She is a member of the Croatian Philological Society. She has reviewed papers for domestic and foreign linguistic journals and Croatian scientific publications in the field of her scientific interest. She is the editor of four Croatian editions.

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Jadranka Mlikota

Ime i prezime

Krešimir Čosić

Zvanje

e-mail

kcosic1@foozos.hr

Broj ureda

47

Istraživački interesi

Jezikoslovlje, filologija, dijalektologija, primijenjena lingvistika, sociolingvistika, glotodidaktika, kulturna antropologija

Diplomski studij hrvatskoga jezika i književnosti i povijesti završio je 2015. na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Osijeku. U razdoblju 2016.-2020. radio je kao profesor hrvatskoga jezika u nekoliko zagrebačkih škola, 2017.-2019. izvodio je pripremnu nastavu hrvatskoga kao inoga jezika za djecu tražitelja azila. Od 2020. radi kao asistent na Fakultetu za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti u Osijeku, na Katedri za hrvatski jezik, gdje održava ili je održavao seminarsku nastavu i vježbe iz kolegija na nekoliko studijskih programa: Usmena i pisana komunikacija, Hrvatska narječja i Zavičajni idiom na Sveučilišnom integriranom prijediplomskom i diplomskom Učiteljskom studiju; Javna komunikacija i komunikacijske vještine na Sveučilišnom prijediplomskom studiju Edukacijske rehabilitacije; Hrvatski jezik i komunikacija na Sveučilišnom prijediplomskom studiju Ranoga i predškolskoga odgoja i obrazovanja – izvanredni studij u Slatini. Doktorand je na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Rijeci na doktorskom studiju Povijest i dijalektologija hrvatskoga jezika.

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Name and surname

Tena Babić Sesar, Graduate Librarian and Croatian Language Teacher

Title

Expert Advisor

e-mail

tbsesar@foozos.hr

tenababicsesar@gmail.com

Office number

58

Research interests

Croatian language, dialectology, language history

About the teacher

Tena Babić Sesar was born on November 20, 1985, in Slavonski Brod. After completing elementary school and the Fra Marijan Lanosović Classical Grammar School with public rights in Slavonski Brod, she enrolled in the study of Croatian Language and Literature and Librarianship at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. She graduated on June 23, 2011, earning the academic title of Professor of Croatian Language and Literature and Certified Librarian. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.

She participated in the realisation of the following courses (exercises and seminars): History of the Croatian Grammatical System, History of the Croatian Literary Language, Croatian Dialectology, Slavonian Dialect, and the Kajkavian Dialect. She was a researcher in the scientific research project Slavonian Dialect (project leader: Prof. Dr. Ljiljana Kolenić). She also participated in the preparation, design, and execution of several outreach activities and was involved in organising and conducting fieldwork.

She has participated in more than fifteen academic conferences and is the author or co-author of around twenty academic, professional, and popular papers. She is enrolled in Doctoral Studies in Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, and is a member of Matica Hrvatska.

List of publications (CroRIS link)

CroRIS - Tena Babić Sesar