http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/41954 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:05:20 GMT 2026-04-07T14:05:20Z http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42106 Title: Strategies for L2 lecture comprehension: an intervention study Authors: Velikova, S.; Tsvetkov, D. Abstract: The study reported in this article set out to investigate the effect o f an intervention into the strategies for second language (L2) lecture comprehension. The research was conducted in a Bulgarian university context and adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design. The 15-week instructional sequence was based on explicit/ direct teaching o f cognitive and metacognitive strategies for listening to lectures in English. The results indicated that the students in the experimental group (n = 34) significantly outperformed their counterparts in the comparison group (n = 25) in a multiple-choice test used as a measure for L2 lecture comprehension. The findings, therefore, suggest that the strategy-based instruction could facilitate the development o f L2 lecture listening skills Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42106 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42105 Title: Educational discourse: information technology in high school Authors: Penkov, B. V. Abstract: Educational discourse demonstrates a number of characteristics, which can be analyzed and grouped according to various parameters. The Theme of Online and Blended Learning occupies a critical domain within the educational discourse, including the language of high school. The discourse of senior high school provides sets of stylistic and genre markers for the discourse, such as terminological and professional vocabulary that defines and clarifies concepts and categories within the discourse of education. These characteristics index and differentiate texts and affect the discourse flow as well as interdiscursively motivate its connections with other types of discourses in a larger network. The research o f pedagogical literature and regulatory documents examines the organizational, including operational aspects of online and blended learning, pedagogical experience, the use of related technologies and of competencies approach to support learning in a high school setting Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42105 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42104 Title: Predicting students’ GPAs based on cloze tests in Kazakhstan Authors: Nancy Burkhalter Abstract: The purpose o f this study was to determine what correlation, if any, existed between the MA TESOL entrance exam, specifically the cloze test, and students’ performance in the program at an English-medium university in Central Asia. This was accomplished by comparing the results o f students’ scores on the three parts of the exam (cloze and two essays) with their GPAs. Findings showed the number correct in the second h alf (with exact-word scoring) o f an academic passage had a higher correlation with GPA (0.60; significant at 0.01). Correlations with the essays were not significant Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42104 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42103 Title: The satiric grotesque in Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Authors: Elaheh Soofastaei; Sayyed Ali Mirenayat Abstract: This paper surveys the grotesque which takes a principal position in the American literature since the nineteenth to the present. It outlines the evolution of grotesque from art to literary form, and its meaning that is combined from different critical works. Moreover, it describes the grotesque from the gothic to the textual analysis of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque which is a short fiction by Edgar Allen Poe as a key literary w riter in the ground of the grotesque. He appears as a groundbreaking writer in the nineteenth century American literature and a fruitful influence on his followers. His grotesques are not as common as his gothic stories because the former ones are of a humorous and unusual character when compared to his other stories. In fact, his grotesques fall into the territory o f satirical grotesques Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.bsuedu.ru/handle/123456789/42103 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z