THE NAME “BULGARIANS” IN THE EARLY MEDIEVALARMENIAN TEXTS

The standard form Bulghar, with which Bulgarians and the Land of the Bulgarians (Bulgaria) are recorded in medieval Armenian texts, has been established as traditional only since the 11th century. Until then, there were several attested variations, while the o...

THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF HARD SKILLS VS SOFT SKILLS IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE FUNCTIONAL LITERACY

The article continues the question raised in the previous publication about the structure of functional literacy as a speech activity. The article, first of all, examines the conceptual model of functional literacy itself, secondly, defines the structure and c...

REFLECTIONS ON SOME INSTANCES OF TRANSLANGUAGING IN WRITTEN BULGARIAN DISCOURSE

The use of translanguaging strategies in written Bulgarian discourse is continually expanding and this expansion ultimately affects the Bulgarian language system in one way or another. The present paper focuses on 42 instances of translanguaging taken from Bul...

DESIGNING А QUESTIONNAIRЕ FOR STUDYING LINGUISTIC BIOGRAPHIES OF HERITAGE SPEAKERS

The purpose of this study is to identify the pieces of biographical information that are most relevant for the study of Russian as a heritage language. It builds on a review of questionnaires for studying linguistic biographies that are currently used in arti...

THE BENEFITS OF LEXICAL APPROACH IN QUIZLET-BASED VOCABULARY LEARNING

In the present experimental study second-year students majoring in “Agricultural Engineering” and “Electrical engineering” revise for the Unified Entrance Exam to join the Master course. Both groups learn vocabulary through the online vocabulary learning platf...

GAMIFICATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL: LEARNER PROFILES AND ATTITUDES

In instructional settings, the term gamification refers to the use of game-based elements to increase learner motivation and involvement. This study aimed to get insight into how adult learners of English perceive gamified activities incorporated into their En...

CULTURE SPECIFIC INFORMATION IN EUGENE ONEGIN BY A.S. PUSHKIN: RENDERING STRATEGIES IN PORTUGUESE TRANSLATIONS

The paper focuses on identifying and methodizing key strategies and ways of rendering culture specific information in Portuguese translations of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin and aims at assessing their adequacy. Culture differences between Russia, Portug...

TO THE HISTORY OF A WORD INTRODUCED BY HRISTO BOTEV

The aim of the article is to present the history of a French loanword, introduced in Bulgarian language by the poet-publicist Hristo Botev. The research is within the realm of diachronic empruntology, viewed as a science for tracking interlanguage lexical tran...

IN MEMORY OF IVAN KASABOV

PICTURE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES OF GENERAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Yuliana Stoyanova’s book provides a complete overview of the most important issues in general psycholinguistics, especially in the field of developmental psycholinguistics. The Bulgarian contributions in this relatively young interdisciplinary field are clearl...