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Inspired by our experience as an associate assistant of English with the 2nd year students at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology Dumitru Staniloae, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, this paper purports to account for the gaps that need filling in a less developed branch of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), namely theological English. After overviewing the status of the discipline, we intend to make suggestions towards the improvement of the Orthodox content for the purpose of developing students’...

The paper aims at presenting a systematic and comprehensive overview of the language of the European Union. It defines the most frequent traits on the level of morphology, lexicology, syntax and stylistics. When characterizing the individual language levels we especially aim at those features that have a particular relevance in terms of interlingual transfer. Then, we point out at the status and use of individual EU’s official languages and at the end, we describe in brief the situation in foreign language educa...

The main objective of this paper is to design and test metrics that are used to assess the managerial competencies of university students Master degree study and review of the theoretical approach and research on the problems of management competencies. By comparing the results of the evaluation of managerial competencies and recorded study examined the performance of the model design their own evaluation of study performance. The following section presents the results of research in which they are presented corre...

The paper explores the application of corpus linguistics in language teaching and introduces the results of a pilot educational research project aimed at the evaluation of Russian university students’ attitudes to the use of a corpus-based set of classroom activities to study English pronunciation. The corpus-based approach exemplifies data driven learning, it generates learner autonomy by training students to draw their own conclusions about language use. Two of the most challenging topics in practical phonetic...

The purpose of the article is to give the reader some information on the topic of В«classification of shortened wordsВ». In this paper we have analyzed the research of shortened words in Germanic languages, defined similarities and described differences. The variety of taxonomic approaches give us an opportunity to investigate shortened words in English and German languages in a true sense. In this article, we will show the difference of various classifications in Germanic languages. Many scientists investigated t...

The article considers the role of expert activity in modern society. It shows that the expert activity becomes significant form of social activity, and in this context the process of its institutionalization, that is gathering pace now and involving the formation of normative, institutional and professional forms of its implementation is studied in detail. This process is very similar to the process of institutionalization of scientific activity, which had a place at the end of the 19th century.

Initial teacher education is the foundation of good job performance. Its practical component allows students to apply the acquired professional training in real school conditions. It activates and motivates students for future teaching positions; it develops their pedagogical thinking and teaches them to apply the principles of pedagogical and psychological knowledge when working with pupils in the classroom. These competencies are created through activity and it is not possible to create and transmit these compet...

Application of modern information and computer technologies in the educational activity has become in the standard practice. Many educational institutions have developed and apply in the learning process electronic libraries. International educational platforms are established and functioning. Knowledge of students is checked with the help of computer-based testing. But despite achievements of technological character, we can point to some serious problems, that are produced by a wide spread of e-learning systems i...

The article is devoted to the issues of mastering project and research competencies as the main result of university education. The article contains the description of the experiment, the main experiment results are presented, the meta-subject orientation of university education is justified. The authors present the specific education tools aimed at the stated goal achievement, the ways of educational assignment design, the types of tasks for students’ self-study work, the techniques of student involvement into ...

Higher Education in Kosovo has been through difficult periods and has undergone a long transition period. There have been many changes from its beginnings of educating Kosovo society, always focusing on adapting itself from the old system to that of the Bologna System. From the 1990s the Education System functioned under extreme conditions, because Serbia’s Government did not allow Albanians to study in the Albanian language. Between1999-2005 when Kosovo was governed by the UN mission, there was not much improve...

Romania and Hungary, two former dictatorships in Central and Eastern Europe, have started on their post-communist project having pretty many similarities. At least, in the beginning they adopted the same soviet model of social organization and similar institutional framework. Although, until the end of the regime they matured following divergent paths, some societal subsystems evolved in quite similar ways in both countries. On the one side of the border Hungary was boiling its “goulash communism” while living...

A teacher is a highly valued personality in a society and teaching is considered to be the most sacred and distinctive profession. History is full of evidence about the nations where education has distinguished progress. The major focus of the research was to study the impact of additional duties of government school teachers on teaching learning process in Pakistan. The main objectives of the study were: (a) to study the importance of professional duties of teachers; (b) to identify the issues related to addition...

Active teaching techniques are taught as a core element of University Teacher Training courses as applied to each subject of the curricula. Studying a subject in school requires active teaching and learning. But, often the methods used by teachers in the classroom are not differentiated and do not activate students sufficiently. There are cases where even in-service teachers/mentors avoid using active teaching techniques because it seems to be easier not to involve students in the teaching process. Our paper’s a...

The importance of education and training in the area of first aid in helping professions reveals its significance in our research sample, conducted with the students of secondary and higher education, who study medical, social and pedagogical training bound with their future profession. The aim of our research was the area of competences in the context of providing the first aid by the persons preparing for contact work with people and where the professional dispositional factors for its application exist. At the ...

Education is one of the most important social activities in the life of human beings. The need for broad and varied learning opportunities to cope with social, economic and technological changes is increasing. The aim of this article is to show the importance of the lifelong learning for professional development of managers of different levels as perceived by them, concerning the field of learning English, aimed at managers from various companies in Tomsk. This work is based on the implementation of the project вЂ...

In this document, the authors summarise the results of a project implemented with the aim of determining the current condition of inclusive education in Czech schools in mainstream education. The authors analyse the opinions of educators, both based on their practical experience and in the context of the length of their experience as educators. The findings obtained during research are also complemented by valid legislation.

The widespread of info-communication technologies in all spheres of human activities gives rise to new threats that in some cases may lead to violation of the constitutional human rights, threaten the stability of the State and public life. Among the most pressing are the ethical problems associated with the digital disparity, violations of personal privacy; ethics conduct on the Internet; compliance of intellectual property rights; opposition to the ideas of violent extremism in the Internet etc. Thus, the proble...

Higher education takes on an increasingly international dimension, as more and more higher education institutions enroll students from third countries, create the opportunities for the exchange of students, staff, projects and knowledge, as well as get involved in international academic and research cooperation. In rising globalization, Lithuania is being increasingly involved in international networks and experiences influence of supranational powers of education. Lithuanian higher education and its legal regulat...

The purpose of this study was experimental testing and adaptation to Russian conditions of innovative methods of correction and rehabilitation work with modern media resources (photos, audio and video) to develop the skills of social adaptation of children and adolescents with disabilities of any etiology. The study was conducted in the framework of the German-Russian project "Navigator of the Future" in partnership of Ryazan State University (Ryazan, Russia) with an international educational center "Bennohaus Bur...

The current development of information technologies is changing the world dramatically. Paper and book printing are rapidly passing away. Information technologies started to form the new culture for scientific and educational publications. The focus of this article is on the historic, philosophic and practical aspects of this process, and definition of the main challenges facing the new culture of publications: namely dynamic nature of information, improvement of visualization of the humanities. The authors presen...

The paper is based on the author’s experience of organizing intellectual quiz competitions, held in English, German and French among high-school students and university students since 2009 in Novosibirsk (Russia). The research is based on the analysis of the impact of the intellectual quiz competitions on the development of students’ socio-cultural competence as well as proficiency in a foreign language. For this purpose a questionnaire was constructed and distributed among the participants of the contest incl...

The interaction between the integrated management of the issues regarding the policy of urban architecture and the development of the design of a material environment is a topic important to be explored in order to attain environmental, economic and social sustainability. To achieve coexistence and harmony, innovative teaching methods have become an important instrument. The problem-based teaching/learning method (PBT/LM) is one of the techniques analysed for understanding its peculiarities and applications. The g...

Modern information technologies influence significantly on various aspects of social life. The boundaries of this influence include the discussion of questions related with the trends development of science and education. Terms such as В«Science 2.0В», В«escienceВ», В«e-LearningВ» is currently fast established in discourses on the problems of research and educational practices. Sometimes the content of these and other similar concepts has constructive characteristics. But more often application of these terms has ...

The paper is a part of a broader research aimed at identifying and evaluating key knowledge and competences in the European and international business law of graduates in International Business in the Slovak Republic. In Slovakia, several studies have been carried out in the field of university graduates success on the labour market. The common finding of these studies was that graduates in economic disciplines acquire, during their study, a solid theoretical knowledge, however, lower than expected level of practi...

Background: modern linguists, who study language features of media, fix significant increase in irony and language games in headlines and heading complexes. Authors of media messages abundantly use the puns based on a polysemy of words, use different kinds of metaphors, precedent texts and names. Specificity of mainstreaming precedent phenomena in the media headlines is the fact that the headline is a complex linguistic phenomenon, possessing cognitive performance. Heading complex, as well as media discourse as a ...

This paper focuses on the subject of learning patterns in higher education. In a traditional way, learning patterns, styles, strategies, and regulation mechanisms are regarded as stable across time and contexts. Recent research argue the flexibility of learning patterns across contexts, persons, and time. The article proposes the analysis of both approaches based on the results of a study conducted on undergraduate students in regular universities. The research was based on a qualitative approach, blending photovo...

Since the date of admission into the European Union, the Slovak Republic has been facing an obvious problem of both positive and negative changes within the labour market reorganization and functioning. Long-lasting trend of both decreasing population and increasing migration of human resources do reflect the conflict between demand and supply on local labor market, concerning also the qualification needs. However, despite of all serious consequences of this trend, the undoubtedly reason must be seen in the qualit...

In the paper we will focus in detail on the field of literacy and its relationship to chosen cognitive theories and models of information processing, which have influenced the reading comprehension since the 50?s to these days. Reading comprehension is a very difficult process that uses analysis and synthesis of various text levels, it has a relational character. There are three basic types of connection that are necessary: connection between the phenomena of objective reality with text elements that refer to thes...

The quality of a training program can be identified both through its process of implementation and later through the actual activity of the trainee. During February-December 2013 the strategic project named “From start to success – national mentorship program for the professional insertion of teachers”, financed by the social European fund, was implemented. The program’s aim was to improve the professional insertion and the activity growth of junior teachers from the secondary education system through the ...

Implementation of learning organization requires continuous analysis of the current state and the continuous improvement. To be able to analyze the current state, it is necessary to know the criteria by which it is possible to evaluate. The paper describes method of self-assessment organization. First part of the article identifies criteria based on previous studies and literature. Subsequently the evaluation criteria are used in the process of creation of self-assessment method in terms of learning organization.

Background Assessment is an element appearing in any training-educational process. It enables to measure the level of reach of the educational process goals, as well as to adopt decisions leading to the increase of the effectiveness of the relevant activity. Assessment of the child with Down syndrome requires more focus from the assessor because such child has several disabilities at psychic-motor level which directly affect anything the child does, including the level of acquiring the elements taught and time spe...

Quality is a general term used in all areas, but has a specific character for each position, sector or area. In order to improve the quality, there are used techniques, methods and tools of quality. In the paper the authors propose to use and to adapt a model consecrated in industry, namely the DMAIC model, for improving the quality of educational process, in preschool institutions in Romania. Preschool period is the period of the fundamental procurement cycle, is called early educational period and its range in b...

Motivation is a thing that can increase students’ determination and interest in language learning. Working in non-native environment, but bearing in mind that our task is teaching a foreign language, we see some important goals of motivation in: • Fulfilling university requirements • Improving one’s education • Improving critical and creative thinking skills • Increasing job opportunities and salary potential • Increasing global understanding, etc. A teacher should put a strong focus on the studentвЂ...

Multicultural education represents a tool for positive utilization of cultural differences in the overall educational process. In this process, classrooms and schools become models of democracy and equality among people in society. In order to achieve such results, a large number of factors is required, starting with the teaching cadres that will act in accordance with the following rules: -Put the student in the focus, i.e. in the center of the overall teaching/learning process; -Promote human rights and show res...

As a model system of life long engineering and technology education in direction new production including additive technologies have been proposed three-dimensional model of quality providing continuous of educational and administrative kinds of activity at all levels such as school, technical school, university and postgraduate education. It was shown that the quality of life-long engineering and technology education in direction new production including additive technologies in present time it can provided when ...

Our undergoing research in action started half a year ago and focuses on pupils as well as teachers. The proposed article focuses on the teacher (author), whose main goal is to transform from transmissive education style to a constructivist one – specifically, the scheme-oriented education developed by M. Hejny and his team. We focus on the changes that take place in the pedagogical views of the teacher; their behavior patterns, teaching preparation, execution and evaluation, and in their relationship to mathema...

The quantitative reduction and qualitative deterioration of business ideas and projects carried out through business incubators (BI) affiliated with higher educational institutions leads to a need in strategic endeavors encouraging improvement in the quality of projects, promoting quick formation of professional project teams, and increasing the number of business projects incubated on innovative grounds. In order to solve this problem, we suggest defining and forming a new development strategy for business incuba...

In Macedonian, the process of zero derivation is prototypical, inflectional or marginal depending on the presence or absence of changes in the corresponding lexemes, respectively. In the prototypical type of the process, which is subject of this research, when nothing changes in the source and in the target lexeme and, in morphological terms, they are absolutely identical, of all directions; the most productive one is the zero derivation of nouns from verbs. This is due to the fact that Macedonian is a ‘verbalвЂ...

Purpose – Based on the communication skills of adults it can be made correlations between these skills and those of children, as a means of highlighting the importance of heredity in development, but also to highlight the importance of practicing communication from an early age. To improve communication skills of employees in order to increase performance across the organization, you can make different training, personal development activities etc. Communication is the mediator between people and also the mediat...

In this study the emphasis of selecting a school and profession is put onto the family role in educational and professional guidance in order to help the students to obtain the necessary information for further education, by the help of their parents, more efficiently and more functionally. The study was conducted in Virovitica and Podravina County with two groups of subjects and included 1.063 children—555 of them were eighth grade students of elementary school and 508 were first grade students of secondary sch...

The article contains the first observation over the discourse of the popular psychology practiced on the women's sites from the point of view of the persuasive potential of linguistic metaphoric means. Scientific research of Golovin A.V.[1] is devoted to the analysis of persuasiveness, which claims that, being universal strategy of a text formation; persuasive strategy determines the use of certain sets of linguistic means both as rational persuasion as emotional effect. The goal of the paper is to investigate the...

The paper deals with the issue of the contribution of the education system in Slovakia in terms of its functioning and financing. Slovak Republic has undergone since 1989 a complex process of transformation that has touched almost every component of society. Important role in this regard has played a topic of education, which took place several changes. First, the central management has been translated into the creation of authorities in the system, but which is struggling with several problems. The aim of our pap...

A complex phenomenon in terms of psychological, sociological and legal aspects, adoption is a means of solving family problems of the child. It can also be a source of family problems if the rights of those involved in the adoption and especially if the fundamental rights and interests of the children are not respected. Adoption can be defined as the legal operation which creates filiation and civil kinship relationships between those stated by the law. Imposing the legal figure of adoption in the social life, the...

Pupil evaluation is an expression of teacher professional competence and thus becomes an important topic in preparatory teacher education. However, students? pedagogical thinking is influenced by the real situation in schools where pedagogical training takes place. The key person is the faculty teacher trainer who - in the role of a mentor - supports the implementation of theory into practice. In the presented essay the authors outline the similarities and differences between the theoretical and practical approach...

The paper on the professional self-concept of a pre-service teacher presents the results of the qualitative research into the professional self-concept of students (n=204) at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic. The research presented is a grounded theory research using a multi-method approach for collecting data. Thus, the free response was proven to be a valid tool for studying professional self-concept. The part of the paper in which the results are presented highlights th...

The European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 notes that one in six of the European working age population, approximately 80 million people, are classified as disabled. The rate of poverty for this group is 70% higher than the average and this is partly due to limited access to employment. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities underlines the importance of inclusive education as a means of enabling disabled people "to participate effectively in a free society". The Education and Training 2020 St...

Both teachers and parents aim obtaining educational success, but the perspectives and the meanings assigned to it by each of these two parts are different. The ideal state is achieved when the both parties work together for the benefit of the student, when both have the same objective, namely: achieving the educational success. This paper presents an applied research study, focused on primary school pupils’ educational success, pupils that are attending courses in mass education schools. The purpose of this stud...

In inclusive education, pupil assessment is understood as one of the system elements which support inclusion. The concept of evaluation should therefore be consistent with the overall conception of a school, its values (mission, vision, goals) and principles. In this paper, we present the results of research aimed at mapping approaches to the assessment of pupils in "inclusive" primary schools within the context of inclusive education principles. The study also defines the characteristics of pupil assessment in an...

The requests which are imposed to handball players and teams at this moment are of the highest level in matter of technical-tactical content, related with a superior physical and psychological particularities of each player. Trends and characteristics of modern handball are shaped based on the handball played by best teams in the national, European or World championships. The aim of this research is to analyze the performance of the best 4 teams qualified in the final tournament organized by the European Federatio...

Process oriented quality management systems are applied by successful business enterprises. With the process approach these organisations can manage their operations effectively. The defining of organisational processes is useful to understand what organisation really does, the measurement of these processes helps to identify development opportunities or necessity. So the organisations can use quality improvement projects based on data and indicators which provide increasing organizational performance greatly. The...