Pluricentricity in the classroom: the Serbo-Croatian language issue for foreign language teaching at higher education institutions worldwide

Abstract The study presented in this article looks at the effects of changes national language policies following break-up Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia on teaching Serbo-Croatian or a “language which is simultaneously one and more than one” as foreign language. explores how ideologies conflicting attitudes towards standard languages, recorded both within nation-states across nation-state borders, are understood by teachers context also examines extent to these understandings reflect current discussions pluricentric languages methods adopted for languages.