In order to motivate students and create a tension free environment English language teachers implement different technological tools in the classroom. This paper aims to emphasize the importance of using video material in the classroom that facilitates ESL teaching. The study was conducted at SEEU Language Centre with 87 students’. Major ethnical groups include Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, and Roma. The respondents’ age varies from 18-20 studying ESP classes, such as Computer Sciences 1, ESP (Public administration 1) as well as Academic and Advanced Academic English, and the research questions are: to what extent students are motivated to study English using videos, do Video presentations stimulate students’ critical thinking skills. Moreover, 8 teachers responded to the questionnaire and strongly agreed that Videos motivate students’ discussions in class.
Teaching ESP courses using audio-visual tools is especially beneficial for both students and teachers because the appropriate video material can make students more interested in the subject, more engaged as well as become more confident in communicative language learning competencies.
Macedonia has implemented bilingualism in schools for more than a decade. However, this bilingualism has been realized in a step-by-step program in the Macedonian schools by introducing minorities to bilingual programs first starting from primary, then secondary and lately tertiary education in mother language of minorities. This approach was originally thought to help minority students learn the majority language and in that way find their way in the market economy. In practice, bilingual programs in Macedonian schools as well as teacher training programs in the state universities have limited view of what it means to have bilingual education, professional bilingual teachers, and how these teachers should teach bilingual students. This paper explores how political, social, and economic developments in one country influences by further developing or limiting bilingual education in all levels in Macedonia and how bilingualism in schools can be misused for the government to keep the minorities oppressed. This paper will overview the major political and educational events that took place in Macedonia that concern and seriously affected further development of bilingual education in the country.
Keywords: bilingual education, bilingualism; Macedonia, political events
Corruption in higher education is a silent but well-known phenomenon in countries in transition. Recent massification and internationalisation of higher education in countries in development have contributed to a decrease of quality and increase scale of corruption. In this paper the quantity and the content of articles about higher education in two of Macedonia's most prestigious media outlets are analysed, demonstrating that, as agenda-setting theory would predict, there is a positive relationship between societal concern about corruption in higher education and the way the journalists discuss the issue of corruption. This paper draws upon the importance of media in the fight against corruption. The paper presents a method of analysis of newspaper articles and news coverage on corruption in higher education in a way that it quantifies the coverage and in this way determines the most common corruption patterns in higher education as described by the media. The study offers additional alternatives to the analysis of corruption in higher education.
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