IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT An Interview of Doctor Honoris Causa of Bulgarian academy of sciences, academician, doctor of philological sciences Lyudmila Verbitskaya in front of “Foreign Languages Teachingˮ scientific journal

LE DIALOGUE PÉDAGOGIQUE EN TANT QU’OUTIL DE LA MÉDIATION COGNITIVE EN CLASSE DE LANGUE. CAS DES ÉLÈVES EN DIFFICULTÉ D’APPRENTISSAGE

We would like to propose in this article an innovative approach to dialogue in a language class going beyond its usual function of only being a means to develop the communicative competence in a foreign language. From our point of view, the dialogue of an ed...

DON’T BUY INDISCRIMINATELY Applying active oriented approach in teaching Spanish as a foreign language with orientation to intercultural aspects

Learning a foreign language implicates getting acquainted with the culture of that language and media provide many opportunities for getting to know different aspects of a country. At the same time the presentation of the cultural aspects of a country through...

THE CONCEPT “CABBAGE” (КАПУСТА/ЗЕЛЕ) IN BULGARIAN AND RUSSIAN LINGUACULTURES

The paper offers a parallel comparative analysis of the concept “cabbage” (капуста/зеле) in the Bulgarian and Russian linguacultures. The theoretical part of the article contains a brief account of the achievements of the Bulgarian linguaculturology. The an...

TEN YEARS OF CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE IN SOFIA UNIVERSITY “ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI”

PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ON EUROPEAN IDENTITY

INNOVATIONS IN THE METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING OF YOUNG RUSSIAN TEACHERS

The use of innovations in the process of teaching is an indication of the high qualification of a modern foreign language teacher. The development of young Russian teachers’ innovative competence is connected with the optimization of their work and developmen...

PRODUCTIVE INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The article provides an overview of the main productive innovative technologies in teaching Russian as a foreign language. An author makes an attempt to examine these technologies in the context of modern theory of teaching foreign languages.

MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AND INTERCULTURAL TRAINING – ASPECTS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE

Very often international youth seminars involve some kind of intercultural exchange. Where participants from a great variety of backgrounds take part. There are so many points to entry into the subject of intercultural learning. This is a suggested format ai...

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Abstraсt. Various sociolinguistic changes (i.e. vulgarization, Americanization, the impact on the literary language of other substandard strata, etc.) have a direct impact on the evolution of the words describing the basic social and cultural concepts li...

INNOVATIVE TRAINING FUTURE TEACHERS OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE: THE GAME “WE ARE WRITING THE TEXTBOOK”

The article describes one of the productive innovative technologies of training future teachers of the Russian as a foreign language in the course of teaching methods - the game “We are writing a textbook.” The stages of writing a textbook are examined. The ex...

NEW TYPES OF VOCABULARIES AS A SOURCE OF LINGUOCULTURAL INFORMATION

Abstraсt. The modern Russian-language lexicography provides vast material for national and cultural research of the Russian language. The article describes unique dictionaries of different genres and different scientific schools; each of these dictionaries i...

NETWORK INSTRUMENTS OF TEACHER OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

This article describes the functionality of some online resources that enhance abilities of teacher of Russian as foreign. Attention is paid to online games on the development of grammar skills, services for creating visual schemes, online movies and video e...

SINGING TECHNIQUE AS A FORM OF STUDYING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The article defines the basic methods of teaching the Russian language with the help of songs. Different types of exercises for the realization of certain learning activities and the development of language skills are given.

IN RUSSIAN: IN THE INTERTERCULTURAL DIALOG

The paper presents an example of intercultural training as a model of interaction in foreign language teaching. The focus is put on the similarities and differences in different ethnic values and sociolinguistic behavior and their influence on the development...

GENDER STEREOTYPES IN RUSSIAN ADVERTISING

Abstraсt. Modern advertisement not only transmits traditional stereotypes into society but also creates new gender ones, which define the gender aspect of the modern consumer’s life-vision. Cognitive units as gender stereotype or gender asymmetries play imp...

WHY DO WE SAY SO? (A BRIEF EXCURSUS OF HISTORICAL PHRASEOLOGY)

The article describes the main approaches to the study of cultural studies and cultural linguistics and justifies the importance of a more detailed examination of phraseology, as a reflection of Russian history and culture.

MYTHS ABOUT RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OR FOR THE LINGUISTICS NAIVE FORMS ON THE INTERNET

Abstraсt. Internet as a new form of existence of language becomes the new mirror to reflect a variety of myths about language. The Internet impacts contemporary language and speech giving new forms of naive linguistics: (1) Linguofreaks develop a new folk e...