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Концептът „успех/неуспех“ в учебници по български език за чужденци
The Concept of “Success” in “Bulgarian as a Second Language” Textbooks

Author(s): Iliyana Dimitrova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Language acquisition, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: linguistic picture of the world; locus of control; Bulgarian as a second language

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the presentation of a specific fragment of the Bulgarian worldview in “Bulgarian as a Second Language” textbooks. The fragment is related to Bulgarians’ national-specific understanding of success and/or lack of success. The socio-cultural information related to this fragment (as well as to any other fragment of the Bulgarian worldview) is important, because it helps those who study Bulgarian as a second language to cope better with the cultural barrier, and to better understand the cultural peculiarities. In this study we try to give answers to two questions – is there socio-cultural information related to the national-specific understanding of success, and if so, how it is presented in the textbooks in Bulgarian as a second language.

  • Issue Year: 40/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 167-178
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English, Bulgarian
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