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A Model for Teaching Critical Reading in an ESL Curriculum
No full textThis case study explores one Bhutanese ESL teacher’s implementation of Freebody and Luke’s (1990) four resources model (FRM) to teach critical reading (CR) in his grade-9 English classroom. A semi-structured interview was conducted with the teacher and thematically analysed to understand his initial perspectives on CR and teaching strategies. Based on his initial interview data, the researcher recommended him implementing the FRM to teach a poem of his choice from the grade-9 English curriculum in three lessons. The FRM is organised around four reader roles that engage and empower readers as text decoders, text participants, text analysts and text users. A thematic approach was used to analyse the audio recordings of the teacher’s FRM implementation and written lesson reports. The study also analysed his post-implementation interview data to examine the implications and challenges of using the FRM in ESL classrooms. The study showed that the teacher found the FRM effective and practical, allowing him to scaffold and enhance his students’ knowledge and skills to engage in various forms of meaning construction, learn and analyse language usage, critically engage with the text and promote literacy practices
Undercover investigation
No full textThe use of the method of investigating and documenting criminal activity through undercover officers is a new method aimed at actively countering organized crime. The method is still not widely used in the Republic of Bulgaria
Complications in Implementing the European Order for Payment and the European Account Preservation Order
No full textThe article attempts to present the complications that arise in our country with the scopeand implementation of European orders for payment – Regulation 1896/2006, issued in another member state of the European Union and European bank account preservation orders – Regulation 655/2014. The above two acts are examined in their entirety and totality, some of the controversial points in relation to their application and enforcement in our country are discussed (problems related to the regularity of their service; the revaluation of the amounts due; the excess security and disproportionality; the amount of court fees and costs, including those incurred in the enforcement phase; the occurrence of prescription or peremption, etc.). The collision between the European legal norms and those of the national legislation is highlighted, the shortcomings and gaps are pointed out, as well as the complications that arise and hinder the application of the regulations. Proposals de lege ferenda have been made
Constitutional Control, Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria
Get PDFThe article traces the changes in the access to constitutional justice, adopted with the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria (promulgated SG Nº106 of 22.12.2023), as well as the subsequent Decision No13 of 26 July 2024 on constitutional case Nº1/2024 of the Constitutional Court. The expansion of the application of direct and indirect constitutional control and the continued abstention of the constitutional legislator from the introduction of an individual constitutional complaint are examined
Content flow or user flow
No full textThe article presents several theoretical approaches to the analysis of the process of displacement of traditional television and linear delivery of audio-visual content from non-linear delivery and personalized reception of media content. The fundamental differences between the concept of the media-created television flow in linear broadcasting and the user-created content flow in non-linear services are outlined
Participation of the Bulgarian National Bank in the Single Restructuring Mechanism – a Prerequisite for Successful Management of the Banking System
Get PDFThis article examines the participation of the Bulgarian National Bank in the Single Resolution Mechanism. After our central bank established close cooperation with the European Central Bank on October 1, 2020, it began to perform new functions as a supervisory and restructuring authority for credit institutions within the framework of the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the Single Resolution Mechanism. This necessitated changes in the Law on Credit Institutions and the Law on the Recovery and Restructuring of Credit Institutions and Investment Intermediaries, which was followed by a reorganization of the structure of the Bulgarian National Bank, to new practices regarding information services, administrative management and financing of these new activities
Mobile amateur applications for marking and tracking birds as a tool for protecting them and for development of ornithological tourism
Get PDFIn terms of avifauna richness, Bulgaria ranks second in Europe after Spain, which makes it an interesting destination for ornithological tourism. The development of mobile technologies has made it easier to record and track ornithological observations and create databases for them. In this study, a selection of mobile amateur applications for bird marking and tracking has been made, and the usefulness of their databases is discussed both for bird conservation and for tourism purposes
The Political Image Making
No full textThrough image it is possible to generate, reinforce, manage and change perceptions, attitudes and attitudes. Image is the process of generating and maintaining a specific public identity formed on the basis of basic positive characteristics of individuality. It is in this sense that image in politics consists of the way people perceive a particular person, party or idea, based on specific personal characteristics and qualities made public through communication, media and technology. As a communicative structure, the image ensures accuracy in the transmission of information and the coincidence of the sign systems of the communicator and the recipient. The image is a kind of decipherer of the message, translating it into different languages – that of the audience, the events, the visual language