THE WEAPON OF WORDS – A PROJECT FOR STUDYING BULGARIAN LANGUAGE IN USA DURING THE COLD WAR Cover Image

ОРЪЖИЕТО НА ДУМИТЕ – ЕДИН ПРОЕКТ ЗА ИЗУЧАВАНЕ НА БЪЛГАРСКИ ЕЗИК В САЩ ПО ВРЕМЕ НА СТУДЕНАТА ВОЙНА
THE WEAPON OF WORDS – A PROJECT FOR STUDYING BULGARIAN LANGUAGE IN USA DURING THE COLD WAR

Author(s): Antonia Radkova
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Recent History (1900 till today), South Slavic Languages, Adult Education, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Bulgarian as a foreign language; audiolingual approach; Cold War
Summary/Abstract: The article presents corpus of textbooks and teaching materials for learning Bulgarian language in USA Defense Language Institute in the period between 1960 and 1980. This is one of the rare examples of audiolingual course for teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language. The article analyzes particularities of the audiolingual approach of teaching and describes methods of classwork. The course is compared with the textbooks published in Bulgaria in the same period.

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