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Verbal and non-verbal communication elements are widely studied especially in political discourses. This is predetermined by the fact that the political evidences or truth very often could be deciphered only after analyzing the non-verbal elements. The presupposition that political TV talk shows could be an excellent media revealing the possible incoherence between the verbal and non-verbal communication (body language) fostered this research. The format of these shows often provokes politicians to reveal or hide ...

The paper focuses on the significance and need to develop critical thinking in the educational process on the basis of the documents and recommendations of the Slovak government and of the Ministry of Education as well as on practical experience. The contribution assumes that the repetition of facts and information does not mean their comprehension. Information is processed only if a learner is able to explain, connect and use the acquired knowledge. The paper presents several methods of critical thinking applied ...

The aim of the paper is to describe the attitudes to identifying and developing talents in Slovak enterprises. The research in developing talents in the business environment is based on two research questions: 1. We assume every business pays attention to their key employees and organizes all activities to promote their development. 2. Businesses pay attention to succession planning, the aim of which is to ensure the continuity of talents for key positions defined. For purposes of statistical processing, we used m...

Discourse markers are elements of the language that have grammatical-syntactic, conversational-pragmatic and cognitive function. The first function is evident in the different parts of speech used as discourse markers and their position in the context, the second one explains that these elements aim to start and sustain conversation as one of their basic roles, and the last function requires the markers to fill in slots that naturally exist in language, by using the cognitive abilities about which elements would s...

The article is concerned with the problem of adult people education where the behavioral habits transformation is involved. It produces participants’ resistance and may lead to low efficiency of education especially in some time after the educational course was finished. The mediation training course is an adequate object for survey of such problem, because of mediator’ need in neutrality and non-coercive approach to dealing with disputing parties’ disagreements content. Such model of behavior is very differ...

Introduction. Creative character of structures exercises promotes the continuous enrichment of contents, as confirmed by the dynamic development of sports in artistic gymnastics technique, but also branches of some contents that define new sports and new forms of gymnastics exercises practice for health. It can be remembered thus, aerobics, gymnastics on Kango-Jumps, trampoline, and jumping into the water, skating, fitness, ballroom dancing and all sports that require extreme performance movements rooted in mutual...

Education currently serves as a significant vehicle for socialization and acculturation based upon mutual interaction between teachers and students justified in terms of the teaching process. The education process comprises a number of factors. The research focuses on the issue of adaptation, education and integration of Russian-speaking pupils-foreigners studying at a Czech school and examines specific cultural, social and communication barriers that have arisen in including individuals from a different language ...

The contemporary education-cooperation process around the world enables every researcher to join various international projects that investigate different problems or create a product that could be used by different communities. The number of projects is so huge that they could be classified according to some criteria as a research material. They could even become cultural ambassadors that promote the cultural identity and uniqueness. The question was if the project platform was used effectively and how it could b...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the current situation of the non-formal education in Macedonia with a comparative overview of practices in the Kingdom of Sweden in which non-formal education has a long tradition, and its impact on the youth population in the Republic of Macedonia. One of the main topics of the discussions today is the role of formal education in the process of the development of the society. In the new millennium in many countries the question is how much classical formal education system...

Teaching experiment is the benchmark of understanding the credibility of the surrounding world therefore there is a need to provide optimal conditions for carrying it out. This experiment requires new modern means and methods that will develop and enrich methodology and teaching practice. The analysis of employment of the existing means and methods displays the underdevelopment of topics of experimental studies, low technical capacity of laboratories, and insufficient use of the opportunities of modern training re...

The debate concerning the constitutional wright of freedom and religious education reached maximum level in Romania at the start of this year. In this debate has employed both estate authority and also the public opinion: social structures, cultural institution, mass-media, the NGO’s and so on. The reason was the act of contestation at the Constitutional Court of the default enrollment of the Romanian scholars at the classes of religious education. The debate was centered on the legal write of individual liberty...

The article is written as a reply to M. Barber, K. Donnelly and S. Rizvi the researchers of the global educational systems, in response to the question on the ways to improve the education efficiency. One of the ways the authors believe to be the interactive innovational technology of collective teaching method by V. Djachenko. This method the authors find one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century, since this technology of managing the educational process integrates the teaching and learning processes, w...

Preschoolers’ (N = 537) social competence, coping skills and peer-perceived likeability was assessed in Hungarian kindergarten groups belonging to the Romanian Educational System. We obtained measures both from parents and teachers in Social Competence Screening. A Coping Mechanism Questionnaire was answered by children and teachers as well. Sociometric peer nominations of acceptance, rejection and indifference were investigated to strengthen the findings of effective social behavior in the peer-group. As expect...

Background: symbolic representation is a specific, uniquely human form of objectification of the real world, a powerful means of communication activity of its reflectivity. Understanding of the phenomenon of sign representation, its modeling and the definition of the sign and its meaning depends on the sign language system and aspects of the language to be interpreted – dynamic or statistical, functional or structural aspects are taken as a basis. This article is an attempt to review the main components of the s...

The paper deals with one of the current problems of the Czech education – the development of literacy skills of primary and lower secondary basic school students. It draws attention to the persistent underperformance of Czech young students in international surveys of literacy, analyses representation of these issues in the existing curriculum documents and presents the results of a preliminary research focused on the role of public libraries in the development of children’s reading.

The purpose of the research is to investigate and analyse main factors influencing on equal opportunity in education of rural pupils in different regions of Russia. Rural schools are not provided enough with the support and resources they need to keep pace with today’s educational demands. Rural schools failed to respond to current developments, changes, and trends in education. Methodology of our research included surveys with more than 1000 respondents to study educational conditionals of rural schoolchildren ...

The link between American accredited universities in non-English speaking contexts and the creation of traditionally staffed writing centers is examined in relation to enhancing student engagement. Although writing centers have become fairly commonplace as any other ‘academic’ subject at many universities in the US, there seems to be a deficit in writing center provision at universities outside of the Anglophone context. Research suggests that students are unaware of their need for writing assistance at univer...

The issue of health and safety at work and methods of risk prevention is one of the teaching subjects in schools preparing students for the job and further education of adults. The main aim of discipline Dangerous materials and processes is to obtain information about the hazardous substances and protection and prevention requirements necessary to achieve while handling them. Purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of occupational health and safety education as a form of prevention against accidents a...

Ever since ancient times, the Project Management appeared as a tool for planning, coordinating and controlling the activities. The specialized literature appreciates that the project management is the best way to organize the activities in the modern institutions. The school is such an institution, and it is common practice to have projects developed in schools or by schools in Romania. Furthermore, it is well-known that each school should have a high potential of earning resources and credibility by participating...

Tibetan writing was invented in the 7th century A.D., based on the contemporaneous Indian Gupta script. Because of its intensive usage by the state bureaucracy and Buddhist monastic community, it gradually produced a series of cursive styles. Its original form was used almost exclusively for writing sutras that were considered sacred as the representation of the Word of the Buddha. As a result, a famous calligrapher of the 11th century Khyung bo g.Yu khri wrote a treatise describing letters’ forms, shapes, propo...

This paper draws on our work as associate assistant with the 2nd year students at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its extension in Balti, The Republic of Moldova. During the Business English seminars, among other activities, we integrated translation exercises from English to Romanian and vice versa to develop our intermediate students’ productive and receptive skills in a communicative language teaching environment. Our main aim was to di...

Universities in the 21st century feel the need, more than ever, to brand themselves and to assert their identity in the area of higher education, be this in the realm of their national context or on the international arena. A crucial element of the effort for branding resides in selecting or adopting a name which can single out a particular university and help it assess its unique features. The paper aims to highlight the main types of names used in labelling universities, contributing thus to studies dedicated to...

Universities are considered as a social institution that provides knowledge production and intelligence renewal. "Universities crisis" is discussed in the context of necessary transition to cognitive university as new its type. Prospects for the universities’ development are associated with formation of "cognitive society". The work is based on the cultural and historical analysis of the universities’ existence and transformation; universities are understood as a social form of intellectuals’ self-organizati...

This article describes the process of teaching foreign language to disabled schoolchildren in grades 9-11 in virtual learning environment, considers its specificity and indicates recommendations for the use of remote resources for educating students and developing their foreign language learning competence.

Improving the quality of education, especially in the area of engineering, is a priority for almost all countries. This is owing to the rapid changes in technology and constant demand to prepare students, as engineers of the future, capable of providing solutions to problems and innovations. Therefore, in this context, we should look into the ways of achieving this goal. Educational technologies can benefit both teachers as well as students, in promoting change and in encouraging the development of skills for the ...

We are undoubtedly living in an intercultural and cross-cultural open-bordered world. Approaching specifically the university sector, there is a constant increase in well-funded European projects and worldwide initiatives meant to encourage mobility and permanent interaction among different academic realities. In this context, the introduction of multilingual courses, that teach simultaneously several languages belonging to the same linguistic family by means of the communicative and contrastive method of intercom...

Creation and development of functional reading literacy is presently a actual topic. The ambition of this paper is to highlight the current situation in reading literacy in the Slovak environment. The starting point of thinking are the results of the international survey under the Program for International Student Assessment, in which our students achieve below average. The author is looking for possible solutions to given problems, highlights the need to develop reading competencies in civics. The objectives of t...

Authors of the paper consider writing as a process of activation and further development of students’ thinking. They introduce fundaments based on unsatisfactory state of a written expression of present young generation. It is often characterized by no concept, chaos, incoherence, shallow-thinking, illogicality or inaccuracy in language expression. Stated defections also point out problems in cognitive and metacognitive area. During the creation of the mentioned conception the authors focus mainly on pubescent s...

The research is intended to prove the relevance of a writing for social media supplement to the ESL university-level course. Currently, the context in which language training is performed, features the stage of information society development where one has to generate, distribute and handle information efficiently in order to succeed in their professional activity. Progress in information technology as well as communication services and tools impacts the way people think, study, interact and collaborate. A variety...

The paper proves the necessity for continuing education course “Scientific Speech” for PhD students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty members. The objectives and principles of the course are presented in the paper. Much emphasis is given to the course modules and their content. The methodological substantiation of the course with thorough description of the aims of each module is given: The proposed course is based on the author’s teaching aids and long-term experience of teaching the course “Scientific S...

Introduction of an information technology in educational process takes the increasing place in teaching not only natural-mathematical, but also humanitarian disciplines. Work on introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) as means of an intensification of process of training in the HIGHER SCHOOL has been spent in Tomsk State University (TPU) since 2007. One of effective tools of students’ self-study in foreign language in higher technical school is an application of technologies Moodle. Avai...

The problem of developing a professional culture model is acute in the university language course which trains future professionals as prospective participants of cross cultural communication in a professional context. Such a model will help the educator to present a microcosm of the target culture which possesses systematic character of its organization and contents. Systematic approach and information-semiotic approach have been applied in the research to develop a methodological model of a professional culture....

Engagement of students in the learning process seems to be a crucial element of a successful teaching/learning process. Practising and reinforcing language skills belong to the most essential and important parts in foreign language education. Carefully prepared study materials play a very important role in the teaching/learning process. Special attention must be paid when teachers consider and choose study materials for adult learners, whose memory mechanisms are not so reliable and fail more often than at early a...

In this paper, we focus on online learning. Our goal is to point out the modern tools used currently in an online business, where the products or services are the online courses. The evolution of IT over the past years allows us to develop online learning, independent of the location and the number of people involved in the different activities (learning, teaching, management, etc.). We point out the necessary tools used for building such an online activity (web hosting, e-learning platforms, website-building soft...

The present paper offers the results of the linguistic research dealing with the theory and practice of lexico-semantic fields interconnected with mathematical (matrix, set and weight) theories. Matrix of the observed lexico-semantic field represents semantics of the synonymic row of the noun happiness in a formalized way and with its help all the semantic interconnections between all the members of the lexical stock under study can be studied and noted down in a transparent way. Matrix analysis has its irreplacea...

The article attempts to present students? progress achieved during the development of a European project Erasmus Intensive Programme Effective Communication in Multicultural Teams approved in 2011 and finalized in March 2013. For the students participating in the IP, especially for Czech students , the course was the first opportunity to communicate with students coming from different culture background, where the teaching methods, approach to students, the extent of students? autonomy, different teaching methods,...

The nature of each person as wise and free being is endowed with potential based on mind, free will and moral consciousness to evolve through the process of knowledge creation and innovation and introduction of innovative forms of learning. Man in it self absorbed nature of his existence that life in reality and only then design fully conscious and individual, which is in a position to create his own mind through the process of knowledge. Only man in that situation would be able to have their own elevated sense of...

This article is theoretically-professional studies dealing with the issue of school experimental work and its prospects in the context of the modern methods of teaching. The article discusses creating a complex educational environment in the constructivist concepts, such as the environment, which affects the fundamental level of competence of educator and makes his professional prowess.

This paper draws on our work as an ESP teacher with the 2nd year students from The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its branch in Bal?i, The Republic of Moldova. Since one of the topics discussed during the English seminars is corporate social responsibility, we will present our students’ perception of the matter based on the activities and exercises that were chosen to develop their active/ productive (speaking and writing) and passive/ rece...

The text deals with mutual relationship of the language and culture; with the influence of culture on the language and structure of its discourse in cases when Arabic is the target language and English is the language of teaching and communication in the class. It starts with a brief explanation of the main notions (language, culture); points at the differences between individualistic and collectivist cultures and their impact on the language. These differences can be observed in discrepancies that appear when we ...

The submitted survey was focused on the analysis of opinions and attitudes expressed by the teachers participating in the national project called ?Education Process Modernization at Elementary and Secondary Schools? performed in selected training centres on the territory of Slovakia in years 2008 – 2013. The main objective of the project was innovation and modernization of teaching procedures, methods, and education forms, supported by a suitable and didactically well-prepared application of available digital te...

The education modernization is impossible without the information and communication technologies usage. They are one of the most important tools of the improvement and development of the existing higher education methods. In particular, training in geometry of the future teachers of mathematics is impossible without the computer technologies advantages usage, the ready teaching programs usage. In the period from 2008 to 2013, authors carried out monitoring of level of knowledge of geometry of the first-year studen...

The perspective of the young person on the horizontal and vertical of his existence is given by the education taking into account the perennial values of Europe, based, most of them, on the Christian past and tradition of the European peoples. The denial of this spiritual and cultural heritage leads to the relativization of the perennial values and to confusion, because of the attempt to disconnect a whole sphere of the moral problems from the meanings related to guilt, shame and transcendence. The supporters of t...

The focus of this research is to develop techniques for optimizing the learning environment, identifying factors that facilitate and impede the formation of an educational space model which produces a coherent and socially desirable system of socio-moral and socio-cultural attitudes of the current generation of engineers.1 This makes it possible to build specific models of abilitation of would-be engineers, providing comprehensive education and training and ensuring ones professional fulfillment. It could be argue...

The paper describes the lexicographic system developed under cooperative project of the Mathematical Linguistics Department of Saint Saint-Petersburg State University, Institute for Linguistic Studies of the R ussian Academy of Sciences, and Saint Saint-Petersburg Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO UniversityUniversity). The various possibilities of developed software are described, such as text storage, the parameterized search systemsystem, integration with external elect...

Education is not just simple information acquisition. It represents a set of knowledge, skills, habits, cognitive abilities, interests, attitudes and values of a person. Nowadays especially issues relating to humanization of the educational process rise to prominence. Humanism puts emphasis on the overall dignity and value of human beings and their ability of self-realization. The basic condition of humanisation in education is a new defining of teacher-student relations. A teacher is expected to be humanistic and...

The article provides an overview of recent trends in tuition of public service employees on advanced training courses. The situation in Russian economy and public administration is rapidly changing. Information and communication technologies are being implemented in all areas of state regulation. The development of technologies, growing impact of ICT and introduction of e-government led to necessity to improve public sector employees’ skills. The article reviews trends, federal laws, qualification requirements t...

Higher education is an extremely fast growing service industry and it is exposed to the globalization processes every day more and more. Highly educated population have been thought as a key comparative advantage of the region in receiving long-term economic benefits through the knowledge effect, refferring to the knowledge production and technology transfer function of universities. Main purpose of this paper is to investigate has the perceptions of the main stakeholders of educational process, academic (teaching...

Our paper aims at the analysis of the rapport between reading and interpretation for high-school teaching. It also involves the description of the interpreting mechanisms which affect the quality of the reading process and disturb the relationship between reader and text, instead of enabling a thorough understanding of the literary work. The aspects we will take into account are the following: a. the projection of a certain image of the author, b. the reading stereotypes and the standard interpretative frames, c. ...

Russia’s ingress into global teaching environment calls for innovative methods in syllabi design. Many of them tend to fuse the knowledge acquired in the process of specific studies. Thus, one of the new challenges is an interdisciplinary approach to higher school learning in general and to ELT in particular. An innovative method of foreign language competence formation in the field of professional communication, worked out for teaching ESP students is discussed in the article. This method produced by us presupp...