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…
To read the full article click here Kyuchukov, H. (1997-1998) Academi Des Sciences Des Bulgarie Linguistique Balkanique XXXXIX 1-2 This article republished with the permission of author.
To read the full article click here Kyuchukov, H.(1994) Turkish Dialects of Muslim Roms (Gypsies) in Bulgaria, Journal of Turkology (2):305-307
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…
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Gypsies in Europe and in USA call themselves Roma and their language – Romani. Romani is an Indo–European language related to the new Indian languages and the most similar to it is the contemporary Hindi. In their way from India to Europe the Gypsies settled for some 200 years during the Middle Ages in Greece…
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…