The Roma population in Bulgaria counts almost a million people and most of them live in ghetto-type settlements outside the towns and villages. Very often in the same settlements there is a government school, but the schools are segregated and the pupils who attend them are those with Roma origins only. To read the full…
The aim of this paper is to present good educational practices from Bulgaria that relate to Roma education. In the so-called Years of Transition, educational conditions changed considerably. Non-governmental organizations have attempted to promote high-quality education for Roma children. The Bulgarian Ministry of Education has made various changes in legislation which now allow Roma children…
To read the full article click here This article was originally published on Hristo Kyuchukov’s website and it republished with the permission of author.
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…
In this paper we make one major point: that Roma children in Europe need to be tested in their mother tongue before school placement. Roma children are in a particularly perilous position with respect to their education. We describe the problematic linguistic situation of Roma children, who are bilingual and often bidialectal, but are frequently…
In this article I take a close look at the educational situation of Roma children and especially at the impediments that exist regarding their full participation in the educational process. At the present time the bilingualism of Roma children is either ignored or seen as a handicap. There is little appreciation in mainstream education…
The paper reports two studies of the development of false belief reasoning in bilingual Roma children in Bulgaria. No previous work has considered Roma children. Two studies were conducted, and in the second study the Roma children spoke a dialect of Romani that contains evidential markers, as does Bulgarian, their second language. Results reveal no…
The article focuses on the speech errors of two groups of minority children-Turkish and Gypsy (Roma) living in Bulgaria and learning Bulgarian as their second language (L2). The oral speech of these children is analyzed and the errors in their L2 on different levels (phonological, morphological and syntactical) are classified.Different factor are identified explanining the…