POTENTIAL FACTS IN THE GRAMMAR OF MODERN RUSSIAN: SECONDARY IMPERFECTIVES

The present article is concerned with potential grammatical facts of modern Russian. The verbs with imperfective meaning (secondary imperfectives), i.e. обуславливать, оспаривать, уполномачивать, обезбаливать etc., are considered as such. In terms of lang...

GAMING MODELS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING WITHIN COMPUTER-MEDIATED ENVIRONMENT

This article focuses on the link between foreign language learning and game design. There are many studies on the impact of computer games on education, but their importance in early language learning is not well explored. The article discusses some of the f...

THE LIFE OF BOOKS

The text deals with a special kind of books - those special editions that make us aware of long-passed events and tell about personalities and ideas that marked the course of history and science. Some of the most curious specimens searched and collected by the...

THE DEVOTEES OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN BULGARIA

VOCABULARY TRAINING IN FOCUS

ENDLESS ROAD TO THE ANCIENT TRUTH

УЧАСТНИКАМ IX МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ КВАЛИФИКАЦИОННОЙ ШКОЛЫ ВАРНЕНСКОГО СВОБОДНОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА ИМ. ЧЕРНОРИЗЦА ХРАБРА

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PROFESSIONAL METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING OF YOUNG RUSSIAN TEACHERS IN EUROPE

This paper deals with the examples of good practice of the popular scientific event – The International Qualification School “Modern Educational Technologies in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language” in Varna. Methodological training for the implementation o...

TRAINING TEXTS: ANTINOMIES AND TYPOLOGIES

The article provides the definition of the training text, the description of its main functions, the analysis of linguodidactic antinomies: training and nontraining texts, authentic and non-authentic texts, verbal and polycode texts. The typology of train...

THE CONCEPT “LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY” IN RUSSIAN LINGUOPEDAGOGICAL WORKS

The article deals with different approaches to interpreting the concept “language proficiency” in Russian linguopedagogical works. The types of the language proficiency (active/passive, productive/receptive, translation based / non translation based, consc...

CONTEMPORARY POPULAR SCIENTIFIC TEXT: LINGUISTIC JOURNALISM

Abstact. The paper is devoted to analyse the popular form of modern literature concerning language – linguistic journalism. In the article the history and genesis of this genre are described, a typology of the genre is researched, the limits and aim of such...

GAME AS A TOOL FOR POPULARIZATION OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

The article is devoted to the description of various games used by the Devotees’ of the Russian Language Community (at the Herzen State Pedagogical University) to popularize the Russian language and culture for all categories of learners: both children and ad...

RUSSIAN INTERNET LANGUAGE: MEMES AND AGGRESSION

At first the article is devoted to describing the specifics of Internet language per se. Secondly, it analyses the activities of grammar nazi in the verbal aggression aspect. As a result it is concluded that the main purpose of grammar-Nazis is to humiliate...

MYTHS ABOUT RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OR NAIVE E-LEXICOGRAPHY

The article is devoted to the typology and characterization of the main Russian Internet resources, representing folk lexicography. It describes the basic ways of analysing the “folk dictionaries”, the reasons for their origin, their productive and counterp...

DANCE AND LINGUODIDACTICS

The author make an attempt to solve the problem of mutual understanding between the representatives of different cultures by means of the dance as a form of cross-cultural interaction. Social activities help participants to get to know themselves, their roots...

ON LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL POTENTIAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK DANCE

A corpus of material is collected and described making it possible to analyze the structure of various types of Russian folk movement patterns and dance forms, studied from the Russian cultural context. The article is focused on Russian folk dance, costumes,...

SING IN RUSSIAN

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.

INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES IN METHODS OF TEACHING 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 test resources, which allow to control students knowledge.

CULTUROLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE OR CULINARY CULTURAL LINGUISTICS

The article substantiates the importance of studying cultural linguistics, describes the ways of understanding the realities associated with Russian cooking. Also the history of some of the dishes present in modern Russian cuisine is described. Some of them...