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• It is a kind of cake - an investigation of pragmatic awareness among primary school students

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  Magdolna Nemes

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  The aim of this study is to examine pragmatic awareness among elementary school children with typical developmental characteristics in a mainstream school and those with learning disabilities in a special school. Our goal is to gain insight into children’s language development and linguistic awareness, to observe their age-appropriate linguistic abilities, and to examine their role in social communication in various situations. A significant proportion of students with learning disabilities come from disadvantaged families and enter school with a language deficit. These students’ language and communication development often differs from that of their typically developing peers, affecting both their academic performance and their learning opportunities. Our study of students with learning disabilities shows that their language awareness does not change significantly after entering school; their language awareness is delayed, making reading and written instructions more difficult for them. This research contributes to understanding students’ language development and the provision of appropriate pedagogical support.

• “Brave enough to remove the shell of a chestnut.” The career path of a resilient teacher

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  Kitti Kozma

  Tímea Ceglédi

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  Being successful at school as a Roma student is a crucial sociological question. Roma teachers’ experience is invaluable when seeking to understand and solve problems that students with similar backgrounds have. Resilience is our academic starting point. In PISA who belong to a lower social class but have higher achievements are called resilient students. Educational sociologists say that a person’s life is resilient when it is successful, notwithstanding the disadvantaged social background (Ceglédi 2018). We have analysed Roma teachers with resilient lives and looked for answers to what kind of possibilities and dangers of a resilient life might hide in the pedagogical career. Given a unique target group, we chose snowball sampling. 6 semistructured interviews were made in eastern Hungary in 2019, in which we emphasized the resilience of their life taken, the pedagogic job, and their connection. We did qualitative analysis of the transcripts. The resilient Roma teachers incorporate their life experience into their pedagogic fields and their coping serves as a model for their students.