ON THE RATIONALE BEHIND A PRACTICAL COURSE IN BULGARIAN

Abstract

Nowadays to learn a language means to form a comunicative competence with an intensified sociocultural component. That is exactly the objective of the new textbook in Bulgarian language (for a syllabus of 350-400 academic hours, ALTE's levels from B2 to C1): the additional vocabulary for the texts is provided not as a list but through small dialogues, especial attention has been drawn to Bulgarian gestures, not familiar to Russians. Jokes, phrazeological units, proverbs and sayings are represented extensively. The selection and representation of the educational material are based on the functional approach.