The article deals with different models of virtual environment integration in the educational process, including those in the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. The paper focuses on the motivational reflective model of electronic course design for foreign language teaching purposes. The authors describe the specifics of the five stages / structural elements of the model, evaluate evidence from experimental research, and offer a time-plan for foreign language five-stages-courses in blended learning
The term « live portrait » is introduced by the author to analyse a particular case of political communication in Russia, when the authority represents itself ritually to the people. Such a one-sided communication is called upon to demonstrate the existence of the political leader, to appease the people's anxieties. To specifically acknowledge this, three historical examples of such ritual effects are used in which the «live portraits» became tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich, leader Joseph Stalin and president Vladimir Poutine. The portrait canons highlighted by the author, act as an explanation to the ritual-represtative character of cases of political communication: 1) «the uniform», which schematizes the ruler prior to the live portrait; 2) the static pose as a ritual particularity of «portrait communication»; 3) a particular ruler as a «form or presentation». The core of the phenomenon of the «live portrait» is in the existence of the Representative.
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