ОБУЧЕНИЕТО ПО БЪЛГАРСКИ ЕЗИК И РАЗВИВАНЕТО НА УМЕНИЯ ЗА УСВОЯВАНЕ НА ЕЗИК
BULGARIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION SKILLS

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the opportunities that Bulgarian language learning provides for overcoming its own subject-based limitations and institutional restrictions. Further opportunities lay in the development of the so called generic communicative competences. In order for these goals to be fulfilled, the article discusses 1) the national Bulgarian language curricula with emphasis on the Bulgarian language as a first, second and foreign language; 2) the diversification of the context, in which the Bulgarian language is learned – both inside and outside Bulgaria; 3) the opportunities for creating interdisciplinary connections between the school subjects Bulgarian and English (examples from the curriculum from the 6th grade are critically commented); 4) some aspects of two key competences – communication in one’s mother tongue and communication in a foreign language as described in the European Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning; 5) the necessity of a wider initial training of students in pedagogical departments. Based on the observation and analysis, the article builds a frame of knowledge, skills and attitudes that form the general communicative competence into a transversal, flexible, dynamic construct. Also commented are the applicability of this frame in real learning context, as well as the contribution of the Bulgarian language as a school subject to improving the language acquisition skills of pupils.

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