This article presents the state of bilingualism and bilingual education following the recent democratic changes in Bulgaria. During the Communist period of rule the rights of ethnic groups were not respected, and use of one’s mother tongue was prohibited in the educational system. Since the democratical changes, which effected all of society, some changes have…
To read the full artcile click here Kyuchukov, H.(1999),Acquisition of Romani Morphology.Grazer Linguistische Studien 51, 83-94
THE AIM OF THIS STUDY: My goal here is to classify the existing Armenian and Turkish loanwords into lexico-semantical groups to show two different types of loanwords:a) first one from Armenian (old forms of borrowings) and b) the new one from Turkish (new forms of borrowings). To read the full article click here Kyuchukov, H.(1998),Turkish and…
The paper presents ideas about teaching Romani history Romani Holocaust- Porraimos-. For this purpose different approaches and techniques for introducing the history of Roma is used, such as; the teachers’ story, the textbook text, class discussion, historical sources, literary text, class discussion, historical sources, literary texts. Teaching Holocaust with the use of pictures, portraits, illustrations,…
This report describes a curriculum based on modeled and minimized speech used in special classes intended to prepare children whose mother tongue is the Gypsy language to learn literary Bulgarian. It represents the results of a test designed to determine readiness for formal instruction in the Gypsy language To read the full article click here …
Romani and Bulgarian students from grades 5 to 8 participated in the study. The purpose was to examine to what degree they understand reading materials and how different factors determine their reading skills.The data were organized in several factorial designs, in order to analyze the influence of the following independent factors: mother tongues, gender, school…
The aim of this paper is to present the manner in which teachers and pupils interact in Bulgarian primary schools that are characterised by Roma attendance. For this purpose research was conducted with three groups of Roma children — Romani‐speaking, Turkish‐speaking and Romanian‐speaking children, who live in different parts of Bulgaria. The research results showed…