Female managers and their characteristics in the Trenčin region, Slovakia

Gender equality has been a major principle of the European Union since the Treaty of Rome introduced the principle of equal pay for men and women in 1957. Gender equality means the same rights and opportunities for women and men across all sectors of society. The primary objective of the paper is to explore the management style of women, as well as their distinctive characteristics. It is believed that these distinctive features have a major influence upon their career-related behavior. The contribution tries to underscore the fact that women of the 21st century can prove themselves successfully in managerial positions within organizations, even though their career development is still hampered by gender inequality, since the world of management is a male-dominated field. Women in management positions have considerable, yet not fully utilized potential, which could help companies to succeed. In the paper, a questionnaire was used to obtain the relevant data on the management style and characteristics of female managers in the Trenčin region, Slovak Republic. At a later stage, the sepre-research findings will be used to conduct a comparative study in cooperation with the colleagues from the Universidad de Valencia and Universidad Catolica de Valencia San Vicente Martir in the Spanish region of Valencia

Spanish/FL in Slovakia. A historical and Methodological Approach

The present investigation forms part of the draft of study in comparative perspective of the perception of the target language among students of Spanish from different universities and countries in Europe, from the perspective of teaching languages as a cultural fact and the importance of the social, political and economic factors in the evolution and perception of the importance of SFL learning in the European context. We want to carry out an approach to investigation of various authors on the evolution of the study of Spanish as a foreign language in Central and Eastern Europe, and specifically to the teaching of Spanish at Slovak universities. We have taken as a reference the evolution of the teaching of Spanish in Slovakia and other countries in that environment, and the role that methodology has occupied overtime and the different perspectives on teaching and learning languages that have been introduced

Language Competencies and Labour Demands: A Comparative Study on Reading Comprehension in Slovak and Spanish University Students

One of the strategic objectives of the European Union is to achieve the best possible quality in the teaching-learning processes, and the ability to read is one of the most important competency for the current information society. The definition of reading competence has been subject to constant modifications to reflect changes in societies, economies, cultures and education levels. It is a complex and functional skill, covering processes related to the decoding and comprehension of the text.With this work we intend to comparative approach to the reading competence of first year students from Alexander Dubcek University of Trencín and from University of Valencia, and to detect and identificate their main problems with academic texts commonly used in their studies. We will start with a questionnaire with a series of basic questions, a work from a text and in-depth interviews with selected students, in order to obtain conclusions regarding their reading ability

La lectura en el contexto académico: un estudio sobre comprensión lectora en estudiantes de Magisterio

Una de las competencias académicas clave para la sociedad de la información actual es la aptitud para la lectura, una suma de diferentes habilidades que se relacionan de manera compleja y que es fundamental a la hora de generar conocimiento. Con este trabajo pretendemos abordar la competencia lectora de los estudiantes de primer curso de los grados de Magisterio en la Universitat de València, a través de la detección e identificación de sus problemas a la hora de enfrentarse a los textos académicos de uso habitual en sus estudios. Partiremos de un cuestionario con una serie de preguntas básicas y de la entrevista en profundidad con algunos estudiantes seleccionados, con el fin de obtener datos en relación a la habilidad lectora de los estudiantes, siguiendo un estudio de similares características llevado a cabo en la Universidad Alexander Dubcek de Trencin (República Eslovaca) y publicado en la revista Sociálno-Ekonomická Revue (Delgadová, Gullerová & Oltra, 2015). Los resultados de la investigación nos ayudarán a conocer mejor a nuestros estudiantes universitarios, a detectar sus carencias reales y, por tanto, a plantear propuestas didácticas má

Univerzitné vzdelanie. Čitateľská gramotnosť: stúdia o čítaní s porozumením v univerzitnom kontexte

One of the strategic and ambitious goals at the Lisbon Summit is to attain the best possible quality of teaching and learning processes. One of the key academic competencies generating knowledge for the current information society is the reading literacy. The main goal of our pre-research project is to carry out a pilot study on reading literacy of the first year students at Alexander Dubcek University of Trencin, to identify their reading literacy level, and their ability to comprehend and work effectively with academic texts, and last but not least to identify their reading literacy deficiencies. The pre-research project will serve as a basis for a follow-up in-depth comparative research. In addition, suitability of the research methods will be tested and reliability and validity of the research to be carried out in collaboration with colleagues from the Universidad de Valencia and Universidad Católica de Valencia in Spain will be verified. The results we obtained in the first research phase from testing a small sample of Slovak first year university students indicated reading literacy deficiencies; i.e. students are insufficiently prepared to deal with academic texts of intermediate level of complexity and lack analytical and critical thinking

La Literatura de tradició oral europea: una proposta de treball col·laboratiu

La proposta es fonamenta en el treball col·laboratiu entre estudiants universitaris valencians i eslovacs en una investigació conjunta sobre els relats de tradició oral europeus, que contribuirà al desenvolupament de diverses competències socials, artístiques i culturals, i de la competència comunicativa en anglès. Pretenem així mateix utilitzar diversos dispositius tecnològics i xarxes socials, i iniciar un debat sobre la pertinència d'aquest tipus de treball col·laboratiu i sobre la seua efectivita