SCIDAR - A Digital Archive of the University of Kragujevac

The aim of the research was to determine the level of frequency of using affective reading strategies in teaching German as a foreign language at a primary school level. The tasks referred to examining the contribution of biological (gender and age) and external factors (assessment of reading activities in German) to the level of frequency of their use. The level of frequency of application of affective strategies as a dependent variable was measured against these independent variables. The d...

Adequate and purposeful use of vocabulary is one of the primary goals of the process of learning and teaching a foreign language, given that the success in building language competence largely depends on it. Vocabulary learning strategies, as a diverse set of techniques focused on overcoming the various problems that arise when learning words, can help students to achieve this complex goal in the easiest and fastest way possible. While some strategies can be applied spontaneously, teaching pr...

The aim of this paper is to determine whether pre-service and in-service teachers in Serbia accept to use computers in teaching mathematics and to predict their use of computers at traditional and innovative levels. Research to date has shown that teachers' intention to use computers in their lessons has the greatest impact on their readiness or acceptance to use them. In this research we used the technology acceptance model to examine the predictors of intention, expanded with external varia...

The development of electronic media and changes of the social context in the situation of the global health crisis in the field of education have resulted in an increased interest in digital resources, especially in the application of e-books in teaching. Resorting to this book format raises the question of the perspective of its application in the future changed social circumstances. The authors examine (a) the experiences of students of teacher education and pedagogical faculties (N = 394) ...

The paper investigates the problems of inclusive education from the perspective of scientific research and with an intention to point to the most pressing problems of inclusive education in Serbia from the researchers' perspective. The analysis encompassed 135 papers focused on different problems related to the research of the inclusive theory and practice and published in the pedagogical literature in the last 10 years. Two units of analysis have been selected: theoretical and problem approa...

The paper presents the results of a research conducted with the aim of determining the contribution of Science and Social Studies textbooks in the formation and strengthening of the national identity of younger students in primary school. The theoretical part of the paper provides an overview of different conceptualizations of the concept of national identity, as well as an overview of the research on the role of program frameworks and educational content in the development of the national id...

We point out the importance of working on the correct articulation of sounds and analyze the representation of orthoepy in the curricular contents for the subject Serbian Language in the lower grades of primary school. The results of the content analysis show that the importance of a continuous work on the correct articulation of sounds has not been recognized in the new curricula. The work on the pronunciation of sounds is included only in the curriculum for the first grade. A comparative an...

Starting from the established standards and requirements for ensuring the quality of university teaching, via improving and modernizing the teaching process by applying innovative teaching methods, conditions are met for raising the quality of working with students. Integration of the teaching content and application of an integrative approach represent a way of enhancing the quality of the teaching process. The theoretical part of this paper presents the advantages and examples of the integr...