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The paper deals with the interdisciplinary concept of intercomprehension, becoming increasingly of use in today's linguistics, educational science and sociolinguistics. Based on the idea of searching for cues towards comprehension between languages belonging to the same language group, presenting both genetic and typological affiliations, it became a rich source of reflection and a basis for didactic applications. The aim of the paper is to see the evolution of the concept and to identify some of the basic paramet...

Foreign language teaching methodologies make a frequent use of linguistic know-how. Intercomprehension, or interlinguistic comprehension, may be a part of it. The aim of the paper is to present the concept and see its utility in translators and interpreters training keeping in mind that the theoretical and methodological framework for strenghtening intercomprehensive (receptive) skills of translator trainees must always be developed in a close connection to the translatological basis.

Strategic goal of political socialization of young generation of the Republic of Kazakhstan should be idea of forming people with the creative mindset, high culture, innovative approach, physically and spiritually developed, highly skilled professionals. However, young people in Kazakhstan remain the most socially disadvantaged group. According to material security of young generation is not observed homogeneity, they are differentiated the same as all the population. The modern youth problems are highlighted, fir...

In the increasingly globalized world, primordial connections of people based on religion have been downplayed. Nevertheless, growing uncommunicativeness among representatives of various religious groups living in relatively monocultural settings demonstrated a great need for a careful study of the influence of the religious factor on the nature of coexistence of people from similar cultural but different religious backgrounds. Different religious roots of communicants often involve sets of quite different experien...

The paper presents the results of Net Promoter Score application research for measurement and evaluation of students' satisfaction with the content, organization and quality of university lectures.. In business activities the Net Promoter Score (further just NPS) is still more often and effectively used to evaluate the customer's satisfaction. The method and metrics, originated in the USA, is beginning to be applied also in a number of Czech firms and companies of various activity fields. It enables not only to me...

The intention of the article is pointing out that the simple businessman is starting a driving force for the start and development of the company. When deciding on starting a business should be carefully reconsidered objective and subjective conditions for business. Theories and researches have shown that the success of an entrepreneur has often been correlated with his/her personality type, subjective prerequisites for a successful business. The research part is focused only on some results of personal assumption...

Higher education institutions are currently facing high market pressure due to competitors' unprecedentedly increase in number and diversification, along with impressive rise in educational customers' expectations. Given this background, universities are increasingly searching for means and opportunities to develop and enrich their competitive advantage on the crowded educational market. One method that is rapidly growing popularity in the academic world is evaluating students' satisfaction. Although it is a topic...

In this paper we present a mathematical model of the degree of interest of students for educational activities in the field of quality and sustainable development, held in the student center. The idea of probabilistic forecasting model of this degree is to assess the likelihood of student participation in a particular educational activity. Also, we show how, the information obtained from the analysis of the mathematical model can be supplemented with details obtained through statistical analysis software SPSS 16.

In this article the main tendencies of the development of the modern economic methodology are pointed out. The increased role of mathematical modelling in economics results that students receive applied education, far away from fundamental. Nevertheless, modern education requires the development of applied skills on a par with fundamental knowledge in the field of study, as the main mission of the university is to create a general cultural level in the first place, and then - in the development of science and educ...

Just being aware of the dimensions of motivation is not enough. As an educator, you may have students who display weak motivation and you will need to use a variety of strategies within your classroom to engage and motivate them. Although all dimensions of motivation are intertwined, depending on the student and the given activity or situation, one dimension of motivation may be more prominent than the others. Some research-based strategies for motivating students to learn can be: become a role model for student i...

At present time, due to the active participation of the Russian Federation in the Bologna process, organizational, methodological and, most importantly, regulatory and legal framework is being developed. Thus, on the 29 of December 2012 the Federal Law в„– 273-FZ "On Education in the Russian Federation" was passed, according to it postgraduate studies became a part of the third level of higher education, namely training of highly qualified staff. Therefore, a number of issues, which are mainly connected with outda...

The aim of this study is to understand how teachers appropriate and use digital technologies as structuring resources for their students learning science and mathematics within an interactive science centre. In order to understand how learning happens, a conceptual framework and guidelines were developed for teachers to prepare and run activities with children. Teachers use the framework to setup activities to promote interaction of children with existing modules in the exhibitions, making experiments, collecting ...

Social media, including blogs, wiki, social networking, YouTube, virtual social worlds and virtual game worlds, provide their users the most modern way of communication. Instant interaction and feedback as well as low costs are the advantages that enable learning through many-to-many communication. This paper questions are aimed at theoretical definitions of online communication and social media. The hypotheses are verified through an independent research. The aim of this research was to determine how students per...

The article discusses the different approaches to the concept of lifelong learning based on an analysis of Russian and foreign researches. In connection with the transition to level-based education there are changes in the structure of higher education in Russia. This necessitated a change in the educational process in universities. Global informatization processes at almost all spheres of human life demand methodical system of training future teachers of the humanities in the study of the use of information and c...

The authors of this research paper believe that school principals play an irreplaceable role in raising the school efficiency. Their role is rather neglected in the Croatian academic debates on improving the quality of school system. This research intends to enhance the scientific level of their position as irreplaceable factors in a school system. The research aims to identify and illustrate the dominant model of Croatian school principals' leadership and management carried out in 3 Slavonian counties. Furthermor...

The paper analyses the specifics in the field of assessing school maturity and readiness in general, as well as with focus on children with visual impairment. At present, starting school attendance is, in the Czech Republic, conditioned by reaching the age limit of six years. In case of many children with visual impairment, this age limit is not suitable; it is, however, necessary due to the Czech legislation. In the event that a child is immature, it is possible to ask for postponing the commencement of school at...

Understood as a set of actions, applied systematically for the training and development of the people's intellectual, moral or physical skills, education represents an essential means of developing characters and personalities. We cannot speak of culture, or of civilization without education. In spite of the fact that some voices state that the Christian religion is non-cultural, the evidence shows the opposite, namely that Christianity has produced civilization - relying exactly on a certain “culture” of just...

It is impossible to imagine modern educational process without the use of e-technology. Quick searches for the information which you need, as well as e-Learning, personal gadgets are changing educational paradigms. The model of traditional education (Education 1.0), where knowledge was passed down from teacher to student, transformed quickly into a model of education through technology 2.0 Web 2.0. However, a recent trend has formed a new model - Education 3.0, where young people have the freedom of choice in obta...

In Poland there is a Higher Education Act introduced in October 2011, which imposes an obligation to monitor the careers of graduates. Career Office Maritime Academy in Szczecin conducted a first pilot research, which aimed to prepare the mandatory tests and tame the graduates for a new trial, which are cyclic test of careers of graduates: Navigation, Mechanical and Transport Engineering and Economics. The first research was conducted among graduates who have engineering or master exam by the end of 2012. The pape...

Gifted children are known to be special. They differ from their peers. Intellectually gifted children have an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. As a rule they show an interest to subjects their contemporaries never take in. It is obvious that they may have more problems in their life, education, relationships with those around them. High potentials can be affected and concerned about many circumstances. The goal of this article is to present possible difficulties of gifted children as well as...

Modern education values diversity in the classroom making no or few changes in classroom practices to deal with diversity issues. Nevertheless, teachers may facilitate classroom diversity by using pedagogical techniques avoiding, supporting and challenging students' learning ethno-cultural diversity and dealing with overt or covert ethno-cultural conflicts. This paper explores some of the ways to address students' conflict amid and around cultural diversity in the classroom. Interviews with 734 students of Peoples...

The authors of the study define the basic problems of moral education in primary and secondary schools. They point to the educational potential of a specific subject "Ethics" for the moral development of pupils. They analyse the learning opportunities of personal and socio-moral competencies of pupils in the process of formative assessment in teaching ethics.

The paper on the example of the Russian education notes the difficulties associated with the humanization of the educational process. Particular attention is drawn to the need for the great demand of the humanistic education in society and the importance of training the teachers for it. The content, similarity and difference of the educational institutions types (traditional, open and humanistic oriented school) are analyzed. The open school shows a possible way of humanization of education as a transition from th...

This article discusses the development of educational technologies under the influence of the innovation economy and with assistance of the innovative organizations. Contemporary global trends dictate the need for harmonization of quality training graduates requirements of the knowledge economy. And as the competitiveness and growth of organizations, regions and countries depends on the ability to produce future leaders with the skills and behavior of the entrepreneur acting socially responsible manner, in all con...