On the occasion of Croatian Book Month, a presentation of the conference proceedings Children and Languages Today – From Listening and Speaking to Reading and Writing will be held at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, at 10:00 a.m. The event will take place in Ceremonial Hall 21.
The proceedings are the result of the conference of the same name, held on 28 and 29 November 2025 at the Faculty of Education. The contributions are organised into four thematic sections.
The first section, Language Development and Emergent Literacy Skills, brings together papers focusing on early language development, communication difficulties, vocabulary acquisition and the development of pre-reading skills.
The second section, Reading and Writing as Language Skills, focuses on the development of reading literacy, the relationship between reading and writing, the influence of the school environment, and contemporary challenges related to children’s reading habits.
The third section, Multilingualism and Foreign Language Teaching, features papers addressing multilingualism and foreign language education, exploring issues such as language mediation, grammar instruction, corpus-based approaches and the development of bilingualism.
The final section, Children’s Literature, Media and Contemporary Contexts of Language Development, examines literary, psycholinguistic and social aspects of childhood, including the influence of digital media and other contemporary challenges affecting language development and literacy.
The proceedings will be presented by reviewer Associate Professor Maja Glušac, PhD, andeditors Associate Professor Ivana Trtanj, PhD, and Associate Professor Vedrana Živković Zebec, PhD. The event will be moderated byTeaching Assistant Teuta Kraljević.
