Year LVI, Issue 2, 2014<<Archive>>
Linguistics
THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE SITUATION – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
This paper attempts to outline five periods in the development of the Bulgarian language situation, the initial stage taken to be the third fourth of the 18th cent. and continuing into the foreseeable future through the next decades of the 21st cent. The focus...
mezolect, acrolect, language situation, situation in Bulgarian language
MOTIVATION IN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
In the paper the outcomes of research on the motivating factors of the first (Bulgarian) and second (English) language acquisition are presented on the corpus of students’ essays in the background of the appropriate theoretical ideas. The motivating factors in...
motivating factor, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, balance, Bulgarian, English