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Plus, Georgia bills Russia for 2006-2007 expulsions, and a libel case furthers Kazakhstan’s media crackdown. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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Plus, Russian police raid an election monitor’s offices, and Czech prisons are full again after amnesty. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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Plus, Lithuania and the U.S. announce joint military training, and Kosovo’s Bosniaks call for more mother-tongue university education. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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Plus, a Serbian war-crimes suspect is extradited to Croatia and a Russian court date is set for Ukrainian filmmaker’s trial. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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The article analyzes the current situation regarding the Russian language teaching in China. Stating the facts of the annual increase in interest in the study of the Russian language Chinese. This is largely due to both the expansion of economic and political ties between China and Russia, are seeing today, and especially those implemented by the country's language policy. One of the main directions of the latter is the focus on learning the Russian language as a powerful and effective means of ensuring inter-state relations and deepen and spread in all areas of life of citizens.
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The article is devoted to the issues of language adaptation of foreign citizens in the modern Russian society. The target group of this research is those foreigners who can be considered as labour migrants. The educational purposes of this social group are very crucial for currents language instructors and they are taken into account within the large group of modern educators. The author of the current paper presents the educational module of inservice training faculty aimed for the Russian language school teachers.
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In the article, the author compares two types of giving definitions (common and scientific ones), which are the varieties of the same speech genre and are being formed through the explanation. Though the belong to one speech genre they have more different than similar features. These differences relate to content, function, strategies of explanation, intention, speech embodiment.
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The article is devoted to the problems of Ukranian sports jargon. A particular attention was paid to the history of origin of Ukranian jargon in the context of European research of socio–lingual phenomena, the major stages of its development, trends and aspects. On the basis of lexico-graphic and theoretical works it was considered the terminological sportive jargon range in attribute and interpretation of above mentioned phenomena. Besides, it was clarified the main features of modern sport jargon namely football ones, the causes and grounds of its development.
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The article deals with forming professional competence through reading texts in technical language. Stated are communicative activity principles underlying the elective course “Foreign Language for Specific Purposes (Russian)". The motivation principle in the process of professional competence forming is taken into account. Emphasized is the work of special medical texts in forming a glossary of special terms. An extract of the coursebook is given as an example - the lesson on "Spleen". It includes the text, the system of pre-text, to text and after text exercises and homework. The keys are attached to the materials, which are given after brief comments.
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The article considers the use of audio and video equipment at the lessons of Russian as a second language. The objective is to prove the efficiency and expediency of the use of the abovementioned means in the process of language teaching. The experience has shown that the use of audio and video materials, and multimedia programs helps make the lessons more productive and lively and, therefore, heightens the interest of international students in the Russian language learning.
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Contemporary choral music entrenched not only in theaters, but in movies, shows, in the fields of multimedia and Internet space permanently. Firstly, we see an intense performing and composing movement aimed at reviving the national schools, we see a large number of studies on the regional features of choral singing, etc. Secondly, we see experiments in creating a new sound that forms the new image of intonation of the world. Therefore for their part it is possible to open up the possibilities of new opportunities of intonation and art synthesis as a leading characteristic of modern choral oeuvre. We emphasize that the synthesis is achieved not by the simple intercommunication/ comparison/connecting of different kinds of art or their means of expression, but it is such when as a result of art deed appears a new phenomenon – the intonation and art representation. Also in the article was defined the interference of leading elements of modern choral oeuvre in the formation of a complex affection on listener.
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This article examines the intentional nature of the reception. Hermeneutic interpretation of a literary text at the present stage is not reduced to its unambiguous reading, and is committed to the semantic set. Theoretical views W. Iser and H.-R. Jauss receive the actual interpretation, indicating a potential extension of the classical systems. It is proved that the reading process corrects the dialogue of meanings, which in turn give an ontological evaluation of human existence. sputyvanieklubka meanings interpreter prints an infinite way in the process of creative work. Therefore, the activity of the reader - it is always the awareness of perpetual motion by hermeneutical circle, the boundaries of which are governed by historical and cultural process. Border of the circle is entirely dependent not only on the creative ability of the reader, his thinking, philological, cultural bases, but also on the construction of the text as the original model, developed on the principle of selforganization. The result of this work may be relevant in the analysis of literary discourse, the reception of the individual author's style.
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The paper considers the problems the manifestations of ethnocentrism in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. Particular attention was paid to the problem of history of ethnocentrism on the example of three countries. It presents the views of those scientists who over the past five years made a research on this topic trying to find a place for joint cooperation of representatives of these three countries in this region.
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An Internet meme is reviewed concurrently both in theoretical (genre characteristics) and practical (teaching Russian as a foreign language) perspective. It is suggested in the article the theoretical approach to consider the features of speech genre, as well as few Internet meme examples are analyzed; it is also considered the ways to work with the given topic in accordance to the methodology, which constitute didactic, linguistic and psychological aspects of the learning process.
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