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This article presents a possible model for teaching 9th grade Literature material related to the Bible and the Old Bulgarian literature by applying the knowledge that the students have acquired during the Information Technology classes. The demonstration of the student presentations about famous Bulgarian monasteries favors the formation of teamwork skills, the creative usage of the Internet resources and the improvement of the knowledge connected with the subjects studied in 9th grade.
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Conference report on an international scientific conference “Old Believers Abroad”, held in Toruń 19th-20th September 2016. The conference was devoted to various aspects of life of Old Believers’ communities outside Russia, as well as the problems of Old Believer emigration and general questions of Old Believerism.
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Writing is a main component in second language acquisition. Writing skills are basic and include creating texts, which are assessed acording to the following criteria: content, organization and cohesion, range, register, target language, accuracy of language. The writing task, which results are analysed in this article, is partially constrained by presenting foreign students with initial and final sentences. The students were instructed to write several sentences in between those two which, when taken all together, would form a good text.
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This article deals with the issues directly or indirectly connected to educating a child in a modern family. Some ethical issues are being discussed related to widely applied activities within the public space such as ones in the social media, intervention in fertility health treatments, pedagogical practices in nurseries and kindergartens accompanied by the author’s comments altogether with their long-term consequences on the most important individual amongst them – the child.
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The article focuses on adult education and training and their transformations from the early 20th century to the present. Different challenges have been outlined that not only increase the sensitivity to the use of the different opportunities of the environment for education and training but also influence the understanding of adult learning. Based on the results of the survey, there are generalized features and modern development guidelines, educational models for adult learning and good practices from different countries – for example, second-chance training model, model of remedial training, model of workplace learning, model of cooperative learning, model of distance relationship tutor-learner; model of motivation training, model of VET training, model of training for general education.
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This article presents the historical steps of the birth and development of informal adult education in the Bulgarian lands. The opportunities for Bulgarians to learn at different historical stages and in the most recent times are outlined.
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The paper outlines how the application of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) helps the students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities (MID) in the education field. For this research six different Greek educational software products have been introduced ТО twelve students in a Greek school
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The paper is focused on the image of North America and the stereotypes about American reality that are represented and ironized in the short stories, written by the Bulgarian author Svetoslav Minkov and published in his books Shadow play (1928) Automatons (1932) and The lady with the X-Ray Eyes (1934)
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This article seeks to outline the polemics on the relationship between language and dialect and between language and social inter-action, and to present, in an analytical, synthetic and comprehensive manner, some theoretical models that provide explanatory patterns regarding the way in which language, as the basis of culture, is influencing how we relate to objective reality. First we will make a conceptual distinction on the relationship between dialect and language, we will review the philosophical premises of the issues addressed, after which the emphasis will move on the analysis of the language from four distinct paradigmatic positions: evolutionary, relativist, interactionist and constructivist.
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The article aims to analyze the functional load of Russian ball dance that represents fragments of XIII – XIX century sociocultural history and life in their correlation with modern reception and practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The author’s vision of the place and significant role of the ball dance in Russian culture, especially literature and art, is revealed. The focus is put on the phenomenon of ball dance etiquette and ceremony, suggesting a great variety of topics and different methods of exploring this outstanding cultural emblem, described from the point of view of synergy, imagology and innovative technologies, used in the process of teaching foreign languages.
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The article considers the problems of scientific knowledge in conjunction with the formation of a person in the modern information space. Various philosophical schools and their concepts about the process of cognition, as well as the evolution of these views, are considered. A comparative analysis of modern Western European thought and the heritage of the philosophers of the “Golden Age of Islam” has been carried out. Based on the analysis, a conclusion is made about the need to set new tasks for such a discipline as social pedagogy.
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Various sociolinguistic changes (i.e. vulgarization, Americanization, the impact on the literary language of other substandard strata, etc.) have a direct impact on the evolution of the words describing the basic social and cultural concepts like ‘man’ and ‘woman’. The study of such nominations is possible to explicate both surface and deep transformation of modern language picture of the world and Russian linguistic mentality.
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Modern advertisement not only transmits traditional stereotypes into society but also creates new gender ones, which define the gender aspect of the modern consumer’s life-vision. Cognitive units as gender stereotype or gender asymmetries play important roles in creating and reception of a commercial text because if they are used incorrectly, they might cause a gender conflict. A plan for analysis of a commercial text which helps to explicate its gender subcomponent is provided in the conclusion of the article along with typical exercises for students on advertisement analysis.
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Interview with Prof. Lyudmila Verbitskaya, DSc., President of the Russian Academy of Education
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The translation is a multidimensional phenomenon. All the theories stress the diversity of its types and strategies. Aspects described as an unexplainable deviation within one theory can form the foundation for another. This may lead to the idea of replacing a theory of translation with its empiric version. However, a different approach is also possible. The outlines of the theory of translational and traductological relativity can be derived from the ideas firstly voiced by Schleiermacher in his lecture On the different methods of translation (1813) and Quineʼs theory of indeterminacy of translation.
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In the article are discussed anthroponyms of pilgrims from Dobrevtsi village, Teteven district, entered in the Etropole beadroll in 1648. For comparison of an earlier period are given names of people from the same village in the Ottoman registers of tax revenue from 1515 and 1584, allowing you to track certain features of the system names, ethnic, confessional and social composition of the population etc. Anthroponyms from the village are compared with those of the pilgrims from Etropole mentioned in the Etropole beadroll.
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The article view the concept public speech and its usages during the Bulgarian language learning in the period VIII – XI grade. We argue that public speech is an argumentative text . The main topic of the text are characteristics of public statement as an argumentative text. We show how students can improve their cognitive and metacognitive skills, text-creating skills and presentation skills. In the second part we show model for working with public speech in class. One of the more important topic is how teacher can help students to improve their engagement in civil society`s process and how to show adequately and convincing their opinion.
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The paper gives information on a medieval Slavonic translation of the Vita of St. Sabbas the Sanctified. A Middle Bulgarian copy of the translation (manuscript no. 226 of the 14th century, kept in Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos) is edited with variant readings from two other copies: Hilandar 432 and Dragomirna 706.
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