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This article represents an interactive binary lesson that took place in 90 minutes with students from the eleventh grade of Language High School “Akad. Ljudmil Stoianov”, Blagoevgrad. It shows a combination of informational technology, music (the transition between the different parts is piano music and the recital is accompanied by a violin) and Bulgarian language and literature. It also has the characteristics of a conference lesson, because it consists of texts of the students, their literature teachers and DSc, Prof. Tsvetan Rakiovsky. The preparation of the recital relies on out-of-school activities (acting school, led by missis Julia Djivdjorska, an actress in the “N. Vaptzarov” theatre. Having taken place in honor of the 100-th anniversary of the death of Hristo Smirnenski, the lesson included projects, consisting of a Power point presentation and a text prepared by a team of two students. Teachers and students switched their roles, and the parents watched the presentation of their children.
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The article focuses on phenomena of cross-lingual comprehension mediated by a bridge language. In a web-based experiment, German speaking subjects – without any previous knowledge of Bulgarian – translate written Bulgarian stimuli relying on some knowledge of Russian. We investigate the importance of the selected individual and linguistic factors for success in mediated receptive multilingualism. Proficiency in reading in Russian and orthographic distance between Russian and Bulgarian cognates are the most important predictors.
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The article examines the vocabulary related to the coronavirus pandemic, in view of innovative trends in Bulgarian grammar and in view of (non)deviations from spelling rules. The conclusions were drawn based on the analysis of examples from 38 regulatory documents (orders, instructions, reports), 107 excerpted word combinations of in variable adjectives and nouns, and 20 other language units from the media discourse. The emphasis of the study is on the analysis of the semantic-structural and spelling features of the appositive word combinations of invariable COVID adjectives and variable nouns. Other COVID names related to the appearance of new biaspectual verbs, verbal nouns and the high frequency(frequency of use) of substantivized participles and nouns are also analyzed.
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Thе paper deals with adjective stable comparisons in Bulgarian and Russian. The material is studied in comparative terms. In addition to studying already established and recorded comparisons in dictionaries, this study includes corpus material and electronic sources of a highly conversational nature, thus more fully demonstrating the dynamics in the system of the stable comparisons. The material is organized as equivalent pairs, the relation of non-equivalence is also noted.
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The text suggests a methodology for semi-automatic creation of terminological resources for the Bulgarian language for computer-aided translation systems. For this purpose, the technical characteristics of computer-assisted translation systems and their components(translation memory, terminological base, machine translation) are described and analyzed. The results of a survey aimed at translators in Bulgaria and their opinion regarding this type of technology are described. The proposed methodology does not claim to be exhaustive, but takes into account the processes that translators follow in their work. Through the proposed methodology, an English-Bulgarian terminological base in the field of computer terminology was also created.
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The article summarizes the known so far scholarly facts and focuses on the problematic research fields in the study of one of the most significant translations of the South Slavonic Middle Ages, such as that of Dogmatic Panoply by Euthymios Zigabenos. The Slavonic translation of the Second Book appeared on Mount Athos at the very beginning of the 15th century, and was associated with the activities of South Slavic monks-literati who maintained links with Greek scribes. The Athonite monasticism acted as main engine for this translation in the context of the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans, when the Orthodox literary legacy was the mainstay of identity.
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The studio presents the results of the de visu study on the Odesa Modern Bulgarian Damaskins. The manuscripts are part of a collection of manuscripts by gathered the Slavic Viktor Grigorovich. The present work aims to present and analyze all the inscriptions, notes and glosses found in the Damaskines collections, some of which are being published for the first time. Of particular interest are the primary attributions. The results of the research will enrich the knowledge of Bulgarian linguistic, literary, cultural and church history duringthe period.
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The paper is an overview of the history of the Slavic studies in the University of Lodz since 1945, with an emphasis on the teaching of Bulgarian language, literature and culture after 1995, when the Department of the History of the Polish Language created a Slavic Studies Unit with a Bulgarian profile. The main lecture courses, the directions of the research activity, the successes of the researchers, as well as difficulties accompanying teaching and research in the field of Bulgarian studies are presented.
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The article deals with the interactive relationship between common vocabulary and medical terminology. In recent years, medical terminology, against the background of current global events, has actively begun to move into the common language. With this fact in mind, the study attempts to justify this process from a theoretical point of view. Descriptive-comparative and empirical methods of scientific analysis have been used in the research. It is shown that words become terms in the context of accelerating scientific and technological progress. In recent years, medical terms have been increasingly used in children's literature, resulting in a unique environment for their transition into the common vocabulary.
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Children’s literature, especially stories are a source of values. They are always topical because their content although sometimes fantastical is a reflection of real life of people all over the world. They are interesting, emotional and influence the formation of child’s personality. They provide context for teaching and acquisition of vocabulary and grammar.
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Learning English through poems and rhymes is a basis for success with very young learners. They make English fun and memorable. Poems and rhymes in the foreign language introduce young learners to poetry. Working with rhymes children start creating their own. Thus they contribute to the development of learners’ language awareness (pronunciation, structures, use), memory and creativity.
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Learning English can be easy, fun and useful in early childhood. Through games and entertainment, children quickly and imperceptibly learn words and expressions
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Game as a method of teaching children aids the development of their language and communicative skills, of their thinking and social skills. It can be used for teaching, practicing, revising grammar and vocabulary, for realizing cross-curricular links. It is the most suitable method for work in the kindergarten since it heightens motivation, brings fun, thus contributing to the effectiveness of the educational process. Therefore, I suggest a situation plan based on games.
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This article aims to show the importance of play, as a method of learning, in the transition from kindergarten to school. It views the differences and similarities in preschool and early school education as well as the use of digital tools in education. The Kahoot platform, which is presented, allows teachers to choose the materials to be practised or tested. Through a developed test, which is suitable for children of preschool and primary school age, we tested their lexical knowledge of English in a more accessible and fun way. The results and the summary of a survey distributed for completion after taking the test are included in the paper
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The idea about Free Association Tests is used in the present article. The informants examined for the purpose can be divided into two main groups. The first one comprises third and fourth primary school graders, i.e., 8 to 10-year olds. The second one includes a bit older pupil – sixth grade – 12-13-year olds. These results are compared to those of research on college students’ associations and some other research works
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This article analyses the posts the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made in English on the Telegram channel “Zelenskiy / Official”, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2022, and until 19September 2022, using text mining software and techniques. The study analyses readability, lexical density, the most frequent terms, correlations, collocations, and common phrases. In terms of techniques, mind-mapping, trend analysis, network analysis, n-gram generation and topic modelling were used. The positioning of this real-time public discourse is relevant since the channel has one million individual subscribers from around the world. Furthermore, Zelenskyy has been qualified as a celebrity politician (Archer and Cawston), who also gained wide electoral support through his social media presence (Dorosh, Nocon and Zakaulova). It is even more relevant to analyse the English posts since it can be inferred that they debuted with the full-scale attacks of 2022 (since the creation of the channel on 30 July 2019,only three posts in English were made before 24 February 2022).
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The rapid development and changing of the employability market due to ongoing economic metamorphoses require high-level skills and abilities to prepare graduate students for specific life situations. The educational system needs to use more efficient approaches in increasing essential skills for modern life and work situations. The study aims to define the appropriate teaching methods and more profound thinking skills for developing specific work activities with the students. The academic importance of the research lies in revealing new connections between critical thinking skills and disciplinary literacy in ESP in preparing future professionals with its practical meaning for future application. The relevant literature helped synthesize the contextual framework of the structure of disciplinary literacy. The student group has traced and justified critical thinking skills as a professional component in the study. The results supported the conceptual framework with critical thinking as a crucial component of disciplinary literacy for future professionals. Critical thinking, a key 21st-century employability skill, is sought to make the professional portrait of a graduate consistent and effective, which could have important implications for future educational policies.
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This article aims to retrace a brief sociolinguistic panorama of the Austrian colonization in the Banat in the Enlightenment, proposing a light on its origins, and especially on the territorial peculiarities, socio-professional and motivational of Alsatian/Lorraine emigration. Highlighting the multilingual character of its representatives, the characteristics of their original languages or linguistic varieties, their linguistic repertoire and a first synoptic table of the languages potentially practiced in colonial Banat will retrace the contours of the ethno-sociolinguistic landscape of the Austrian province.
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