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The current publication is focused on the main characteristics of challenging behavior and the possible social-pedagogical approach that pedagogical staff members can use to manage it. The approach is applicable to both – school and out-of-school context. It describes the main logic of the support of children with emotional and behavioral difficulties and can be applied in various ways. In this current publication the challenging behavior is shown as a whole process that can be managed by the pedagogical staff members through different strategies for prevention, intervention and support.
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Current study research language impact on aggressive behaviour of at-risk children deprived of parental care. Bulgarian children without parents (n=40) comprehend intervention influenced by four interaction strategies: normal voice and positive language; high tone and positive language; normal tone and negative language, and high tone and negative language. Surveillance has been conducted for data collection accomplished by independent observer in a standardized checklist using the Buss-Durky classification of aggression. Results of current study demonstrate that the use of negative language would increase aggressive expressions of children to a greater extent when the tone is normal while raising the tone would enhance destructive behavior even more among aggressive children and children with emotional disorders
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Social partnership is fairly new way in management of educational institutions. In this way that institutions stay in the center of social and cultural environment and they find various partnerships with another persons, subjects and organizations. The article reveals the ways for applying social partnership for enhancement quality of civil and intercultural education. The author consider and analyze its pedagogic and social dimensions.
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European policy on research and technological development has been incorporated into European legislation as early as in the founding treaties. For the 2014 – 2020 programming period, the EU is implementing its support for research and innovation almost fully through the Eighth FP Horizon 2020, which focuses on three main pillars: Europe's leading position in industry; Societal challenges and Excellence in science. This article focuses on the third pillar, and in particular on one of its institutions – the European Research Council (ERC), analyzing the opportunities that its programs provide to European scientists as well as the challenges posed by the project funding procedures and by the insufficient information and preparation from scientists in different European countries. The participation of the scientific circles from Bulgaria is also analyzed. The article challenges some of the criticism of the ERC by offering other views and understanding that would motivate more scientific teams to use the opportunities provided by the ERC.
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The article addresses the problem of using games and competitions to transform traditional teacher-centered English for Specific Purposes (ESP) class into student-centered. The basic features of games are distinguished: following rules, getting immediate feedback and achieving a goal. Gamification is defined as a process of using games in education aimed at bringing democracy into educational environment and achieving better learning results by motivating students. The characteristics of teacher-centered and student-centered models are discussed in the article. Detailed descriptions of games and competitions are provided, the guidelines of introducing gamification in an ESP class are outlined. The author comes to the conclusion that gamification of education, aiming at achieving better learning results and employability of graduates, is effective if properly applied.
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Equality and equal opportunities for women and men are central values of our society. Changes in traditional gender roles can only be achieved if people learn to be more aware of them. Gender-sensitive pedagogy assumes that girls and boys enter school with different interests, strengths and weaknesses through their socialisation in family and society and are confronted with different worlds of experience. For this reason, school – alongside family – is an extremely influential institution for the development of social gender and an equal relationship between the sexes. Based on the concept of the course "Sexuality and Gender", possibilities are shown how gender-sensitive education can be introduced in agrarian and environmental pedagogical professions and how the school system can benefit from it.
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Currently, there are too many pathological conditions among children and adults, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, dyslexia, late speech onset, epilepsy, hyperactivity, attention deficit, emotional and behavioral disorders. One of the possible reasons for this increasing of the conditions could be the prenatal ultrasound radiation. This paper presents the results of a study conducted in a two-phase research in eight years period (2011 – 2019). This paper is considered to be the first scientific publication in Bulgaria dealing with this issue.
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Contemporary children live in time in which technology is an inseparable part of our daily life. The mouse and the keyboard replace the pen and the paper. The new digital generation has access to the touch screen since early age. Fortunately, the education strategy of “Yoan Ekzarh Balgarski” Secondary School, Shumen, developed in 2016 outlines the following: Our priority is the necessity of effective application of information and communication technologies, innovations in the education methods and the establishment of inner information and communication structure as well as its relations for the implementation of educational goals.The article presents some effective methods of teaching English as a foreign language in primary school. The digital resources and the digital competences of the teachers, together with the cognitive activity of the students is a prerequisite for the quick implementation of distance learning and the creation of a virtual classroom.
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The article presents study on the specifics of linguistic normativity as a codifier, the fields of application of the codifier in contemporary communicative discourse, and conclusions about the flexibility and necessary direction for language adaptability. The aim is to highlight the necessary interaction between language normativity and the pragmatic function of the communicative act. These peculiarities are perceived by the distinct differences in the functioning of the language in different time ranges - from Liberation to modern times. Examples of stylistic analysis of means of influence are drawn from political speeches, which are evidence of developments in the language. The influence of the socio-political factor on dynamic linguistic variability is highlighted.
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This paper represents a methodology for defining restrictions on the semantic combinability between different semantic classes of verbs and the sets of nouns corresponding to the elements of their conceptual frame (i.e. the major participants in the situation described). Our observations focus on verb synsets from WordNet and their assigned FrameNet frames which mutually inform each other. We analyse the semantic information typical for each of the studied verb classes and define semantic restrictions on the nouns they combine with. The theoretical and empirical value of the provided semantic representations and restrictions lies in the enhanced modelling of verb-noun combinability which is universal enough to be applicable not only to the languages exemplified (English and Bulgarian), but (with possible modifications) to various other languages for which wordnets are available.
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The purpose of this study is to attempt to present a systematized view on the contemporary understanding of metaphor, its essence, structure and manifestations in the discourse of logistics. Various classifications of metaphor are reviewed, and a new one is offered using the lexico-semantic method as well as based on and supported by the examples excerpted from a large corpus compiled especially for the study. It is worthwhile noting that metaphor can be viewed in many different ways, however, it will be explored here with regard to its manifestations in logistics terminology. The topic is worth discussing as metaphor provides better term recognition and comprehension. The findings can be relevant when teaching English for Logistics.
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This study examined the views of fluency disorders specialists regarding cluttering. Bulgarian university lecturers (professionals specializing fluency disorders) completed a questionnaire that addressed their opinion concerning the nature of cluttering disorder. Based on their answers and a search of the research literature, a theoretical overview regarding cluttering is presented, including the perceived role of language in this fluency disorder. Using a brief, 5-item questionnaire developed by Georgieva, 10 Bulgarian fluency-disorder specialists (with an average of 24 years of clinical experience) reported their professional opinion on cluttering concerning its definition and salient clinical characteristics. A subsequent search and analysis of the evidence-based literature on cluttering indicated that language is a very important part of cluttering.Half of the questionnaire respondents associated cluttering with a language component. All the interviewed logopedists reported dominance of the fluency component and also noted the importance of the motor aspect of the disorder.The fluency specialists demonstrated an understanding of the different communication characteristics of cluttering. Two-thirds of them believe that the language presence within cluttering is dominant.
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In this paper, we identify recent researches, from Bologna (1989) and until 2010 that recognizes a revaluation of the F.P.U. in Spain, and some future challenges, such as, Training in the responsibility or putting science at the service of the transformation of society and towards a more just, more inclusive, more supportive world; Proposing a teacher training in teams, based on the practice reflected and shared among professionals, and for lifelong training; and aiming at a training focused on the Sector, interconnected, which favors the sustainability of European convergence.
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The paper deals with the pedagogical and research activities of Władysław Bobek, a lecturer of Polish language and literature at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava during the inter-war period. As a teacher he encouraged students in being interested in the Polish language, literature and culture. He educated the first properly prepared generation of Slovak translators of Polish literature. As a scholar he laid foundations of the Polish-Slovak comparative research in literature and enriched the research of the history of the Slovak literature. He was interested in almost all Slavic philology and wrote papers also on the Bulgarian literature. W. Bobek surpassed expectations on foreign lectors. His contribution to the Slovak research is so inspiring that scholars reach out to his work until today.
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The initial part of the paper introduces activities of the Center for Slovenian as the second and foreign language affiliated with the Department of Slovenian studies at Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The central part of the paper discusses the state programme entitled “Slovenian at foreign universities” that organizes and coordinates activities of lectors of Slovenian language abroad. It describes respective aspects of the Slovenian model of foreign lectureships, mentioning requirements for education and experience of lectors, evaluation of their work, system of training and further education, as well as financing lectureships, providing specialized and research literature to lectureships, organizing joint international projects dedicated to presenting Slovenian culture abroad, and other activities.
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The first part of the paper deals with the history of Slovene studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava as well as the personalities who contributed to its development. The second part focuses mainly on the personality of the significant Slovenist Melichar Václav and his activities as a lecturer and translator. The author mentions his participation in the international youth Catholic organizations Pax Romana and Slavia Catholica, thanks to which he could spent one semester of the 1938 –1939 academic year at the University of Ljubljana, where he became familiar with Slovenian language and culture. Change of the political system in Czechoslovakia in 1948 had a negative impact on his social status and promising career as an editor. In 1974 he was given the opportunity to teach Slovenian language at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava, where he worked as a lecturer until 1987. His diligent work meant a significant contribution to the development of the Slovak-Slovenian cultural relations and his translations positively influenced the Slovenian literature reception in Slovakia.
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The report examines poorly known testimonies of Dobrudzha and its ethnic characteristics, collected by the Hungarian ethnographer Györfi István (1916). They correspond to the trend in the then Hungarian science of exploring „related Turan peoples“. Today they can be considered as a beginning of a more targeted and systematic knowledge of Hungarian society about the Bulgarian province. These publications are a good basis for forming certain ideas about the Bulgarian territories and for enhancing their research interest.
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The present study is concerned with what a unified account of temporality could be based on. The proposal is that a theory that accounts for temporality should be based on some universal expression of this semantic phenomenon. The paper opens with the discussion of some problematic issues the traditional morphologically-based approaches raise. Then it is suggested that a solution could be to build the account taking as a basis the semantic types of the events that could be expressed in a clause. Evidence in favour of the soundness of the proposal comes from a comparative analysis of Bulgarian and Amharic data.
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