Martina Pavlikova

• Assoc. Professor
• Vice-rector for International Relations at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

The main objective of this research is to explore the role of teacher-student emotional dynamics within the context of English language teaching. Co-regulation refers to the ability of one person to help another person regulate their emotions and behavior. In the context of the classroom, this means that teachers and students can work together to c...

In the digital age, where quick and emotional reactions often outweigh critical thinking, the spread of fake news has become a serious societal issue. This research focuses on a qualitative content analysis of seven expert platforms and initiatives combating fake news in the online environment in Slovakia. The study aims to identify and evaluate ex...

The visual capture of the world has been an integral part of the formation of ethnology and cultural anthropology since the beginning. It meant not only a source of knowledge of the local community, but especially of the time at which it was created. Sometimes photographs were taken accidentally during research trips as more or less documentary mat...

Abstract Background: The restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among migrant workers in India, caused unrest, fear, and anxiety and turned into one of the most serious disasters in India’s history. The only option for migrant workers who lost their jobs or financial income was to return to their country of origin. Many of...

The visual capture of the world has been an integral part of the formation of ethnology and cultural anthropology since the beginning. It meant not only a source of knowledge of the local community, but especially of the time at which it was created. Sometimes photographs were taken accidentally during research trips as more or less documentary mat...

Adolescents undergo numerous transitional life phases and processes that gradually shape them into adult members of society. These processes are more complex than they may appear, as they involve biological maturity and social and psychological development, which unfolds in close connection with the surrounding environment. During adolescence, youn...

Therapeutic sessions can significantly contribute to patient care through a developed intervention program These sessions can assist patients, for example in identifying the complexity of their experiences, enabling them to examine, acknowledge, and either accept or alter them Methods: Our research utilized a qualitative research design The data co...

A democratic society is characterised by tensions between private and public interests. At different stages of a society’s development, the emphasis shifts to one side or the other within the dialectic of both aspects of the functioning of society. We believe that the degree of disharmony between the two can result in problems and phenomena that ul...

This paper aims at examining the impotence of language or what is famously referred to as the phenomenon of inconsistency of language through the philosophy of John Locke on the abuse of language and with specific reference to the Eighth Edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary authored by Hornby (2010). Locke as well stated that adequat...

Purpose This study aims to investigate citizens' adoption intention towards meta-government (metaverse-based government) by proposing a dual-perspective technology acceptance model. Design/methodology/approach The validity of the proposed model was established by gathering and analysing 533 responses using structural equation modelling (SEM). Fin...

Thesis. Using the example of two literary works, the contribution reflects the influence of media and technology on the formation of an individual's personality and on his or her value orientations. The starting point is a comparison of the works I Robot and Pinocchio with a focus on the question of individual identity. In the mentioned works, we m...

Aim. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the absurdities inherent in combat events as depicted in Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22. The study seeks to explore how Heller utilizes literary techniques such as sarcasm, black humor, and surrealism to portray the contradictions, irrationality, and overall absurd nature of war. Addition...

Background: The activities that children engage in during holidays manifest as a dynamic interplay of cognitive, physical, emotional, and sociocultural dimensions. These undertakings collectively contribute to the multiaceted development o the child, encompassing cognitive enrichment, emotional maturation, physical well-being, or or example the...

Background: Social media has been a particularly significant tool for sharing grief over the death of loved ones, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The research was conducted from December 2022 to June 2023. The aim of the study was to determine the support options of social media used by grieving individuals during the COVID-19 pa...

Disclosure of disinformation has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The society recognizes that false reports pose a real threat to the credibility of information and, ultimately, to the security of society. On the Internet, an active audience is a distributor of media content because they are convinced of its truth, and in the online...

Thesis. The aim of the paper is to interpret Kierkegaard's concept of repetition as a way of creating and experiencing authentic existence in an environment that is set up to repeat this same, inauthentic content of consciousness. Concept. Repetition is associated with determinism and represents social stagnation. Repetition creates the conditions...

Thesis. The aim of the paper is to interpret Kierkegaard's concept of repetition as a way of creating and experiencing authentic existence in an environment that is set up to repeat this same, inauthentic content of consciousness. Concept. Repetition is associated with determinism and represents social stagnation. Repetition creates the conditions...

Background: In this paper, the author identifies and defines the most common socio- pathological phenomena that may occur in the school environment. It defines the basic competencies of a social worker in the school environment.It offers the results of qualitative research, in which it analyzes, identifies and identifies the work of social workers...

The paper examines the recent trends in international mobility, attractivity for international students, and the number of publications of two universities (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia, CPU and Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia, TSMU) to understand whether the COVID-19 pandemic affected these processes and whet...

The starting point of this theoretical article is the presentation of the issue of media manipulation in the contemporary digital media environment. The theoretical part is followed by a description and analysis of selected factors that create a belief of the individual’s resilience to digital media manipulative elements. Among the seven researched...

Background: The activities that children engage in during holidays manifest as a dynamic interplay of cognitive, physical, emotional, and sociocultural dimensions. These undertakings collectively contribute to the multifaceted development of the child, encompassing cognitive enrichment, emotional maturation, physical well-being, or for example the...

Aim. The aim of the article is to reveal gender realisation peculiarities in English and German advertising texts. The concept of the research work is focused on the idea that representatives of different languages and cultures make unique world environment. The work proves the concept validity of the unique language nature in the distinctive idea...

Aim: The Covid-19 pandemic situation has affected all sectors of our society that have been in direct or indirect contact with humans. The virtual world, which did not concern many people until the onset of the pandemic, began to be a major part of the solutions to everyday situations in life. Modern technologies thus began to play a major role in...

The origins of “open-air museums” date back to the nineteenth century and from the very beginning were closely linked to efforts to capture, preserve and present folk culture. However, during the course of the twentieth century, especially in its later part, the concept of open-air museums began to expand. Open-air museums were founded that focused...

The study explores Iranian English teachers' perceptions of the importance of critical thinking skills and the extent to which they practice their beliefs in real classroom setting. As a secondary purpose, the study discovered the possible hindrances in the way of implementing critical thinking in reading classes. Using a sequential mixed-methods d...

Empirical studies confirm that confidence in experts or scientists has declined at an alarming rate in recent years. This is one of the indicators that the company has serious shortcomings in dealing with sources of information, but also in the interpretation of these sources. Currently, the credibility of information is a huge problem, as its volu...

Empirical research has repeatedly shown that an individual's confidence in false information can be built when those information confirm individuals own pre-existing attitudes, beliefs, or hypotheses. And when false information confirms an individual's beliefs or attitudes, individual´s confidence in the false information even grows. Therefore, acc...

Empirický výskum opakovane ukázal, že dôvera jednotlivca v nepravdivé informácie môže byť vybudovaná, keď tieto informácie potvrdzujú, že jednotlivci vlastnia už existujúce postoje, presvedčenia alebo hypotézy. A keď nepravdivé informácie potvrdzujú presvedčenie alebo postoje jednotlivca, dôvera jednotlivca v nepravdivé informácie dokonca rastie. P...

Empirické štúdie potvrdzujú, že dôvera v odborníkov či vedcov v posledných rokoch klesla alarmujúcou rýchlosťou. Ide o jeden z ukazovateľov, že spoločnosť má vážne nedostatky v narábaní so zdrojmi informácií, ale aj v interpretácii týchto zdrojov. V súčasnosti je obrovským problémom dôveryhodnosť informácií, ktorých objem je obrovský a produkuje ic...

The topic of English loanwords is discussed in various fields like, e.g. in linguistics or translatology. Translators are responsible for choosing adequate words in their translations so they often decide for the forms which seem to be the most appropriate for the given context. Education of future translators is highly challenging and demanding as...

Aim. In academic writing, lack of coherence is thought to occur mostly due to the lack of necessary linguistic skills and knowledge in L2. Thus, the analysis of a written text is concerned with understanding the local relations among the ideas conveyed in a text. Concept. As is usually the case, students writing in a second language generally produ...

Various forms of social media (SM) appear to be very popular among young people because they provide information and entertainment, including a wide range of web technologies such as blogs, wikis, online social networks, and virtual networks. SM plays a huge role in the lives of children and teenagers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when...

The paper outlines the adverse consequences and challenges induced by COVID-19 pandemic for the whole world and for universities in particular. The example of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra illustrates the difficulties and challenges caused by the pandemic in relation to the two main activities arising from the university mission-t...

The paper deals with the way of teaching philosophy during the COVID 19 pandemic. It is based on the situation that has led to a forced transition to distance learning in most countries of the world. Within the possibilities of distance study of philosophy, the IT possibilities of students, which may be different are taken into account. The specifi...

There are many reasons why high school students choose to continue their studies at university. Their motivation is usually further personal and career growth, the acquired title, a new experience, and a desire for fun, new experiences, or new relationships. In the current study, the authors focus on the factors that arouse the academic interest of...

Aim. The paper presents partial results of research aimed at the development of foreign language reading comprehension using the specially developed intervention programme. Concept. The English Reading Comprehension Intervention Program has been developed within the research project Support for reading literacy in the mother tongue and foreign lang...

This article aims to elucidate Kierkegaard’s thinking on the press and propagating falsehood. It starts from the story of the origin of the polemic with the satirical magazine The Corsair. It then moves to discuss his ensued confrontation with the written press on the conception of truth and falsehood. To that end, it reflects on the assumptions in...

Emphasis on the balance between human needs and the carrying capacity of these needs in the context of sustainable development (SD) is present in interdisciplinary study programs and the content of higher education in Slovakia. In the theoretical part of this paper, we present the media as a tool that expands the possibilities of schools in the fie...

This study attempted to investigate the impact of extensive reading (ER) on the writing ability of Iranian EFL students. The study also took a further step to explore the effect of adding group work activity to the extensive reading program to find its possible positive effect on improving writing ability. The present study had two experimental gro...

The research on the stereotyping of Muslims and its consequences in the context of the Slovak Republic is highly topical and necessary. The complexity of this research is influenced by the fact that in Slovakia we do not yet have a proven research tradition in this field and there is also a lack of empirical research that would deal with this issue...

Abstract: Man is born into a tangle of standard processes and behaviour patterns created and modified over time. Through gradual socialization, he acquires the attributes of his own culture and gets acquainted with the admissible modus operandi for the social group he is a member of; he also deepens these principles and confronts them with the expe...

Homework assignments provide a channel of communication between students and teachers especially in an EFL context where there is little exposure to English language out of the classroom context. Thus, exploring attitudes and homework features may provide teachers with useful information to know how to plan their homework assignments to improve stu...

Research on the relationship among language learning strategy, language learning beliefs and autonomy abounds in the literature. However, few studies have explored the possibility of promoting learners’ autonomy and changing their beliefs through instructing language learning strategies in a collaborative manner. In addition, most of the earlier in...

Reading comprehension is thought to be a very challenging skill for L2 (second language) learners, and definitely the role that feedback has in enhancing reading achievement is undeniable. To shed more light on the issue, this study aimed to investigate the types of feedback utilized by EFL teachers in L2 reading comprehension classes at the interm...

Introduction. The predisposition to mindfulness and its effect on academic performance in students has been widely investigated in the past two decades. Mindfulness is defined as purposely paying attention to present moment experiences, devoid of judgment, resulting in a sense of stability and nonreactive awareness (Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Wa...

The study explores Iranian English teachers' perceptions of the importance of critical thinking skills and the extent to which they practice their beliefs in real classroom setting. As a secondary purpose, the study discovered the possible hindrances in the way of implementing critical thinking in reading classes. Using a sequential mixed-methods d...

ABSTRACT: The article belongs to the area of theory of citizenship since it deals with the virtues and factors needed for working of liberal democracy. It pays special attention to the place and functions of religion in public life. In the first part the authors explain the importance of civic virtues for working of democracy. They especially stres...

The authors start with the presentation of the arguments for the thesis that there is no sufficient political justification for religious tolerance. They recognise their soundness but on the other hand, they argue that there are also other, non-political arguments for religious tolerance. They stress the argument from religious ecumenism, and argum...

Based on an article by Martha Nussbaum surrounding the prohibition of the use of the integral veil in the public dependencies in western Europe, we aim at going over the discussion around the reasons that enable or forbid it. Contrary to Nussbaum, who justifies-according to the principles of an extreme liberalism-the freedom of women to choose wear...

Prispevek predstavlja Kierkegaardovo pojmovanje duhovno razvite oseb- nosti, ki jo Kierkegaard imenuje posamičnik, in dejavnikov, ki človeku prepreču- jejo, da bi to postal. Avtorja izpostavljata štiri take dejavnike: javnost, uveljavljeni red, novinarstvo in tisk ter lažno, nepristno krščanstvo. V tem kontekstu pojasnju- jeta Kierkegaardove pojme...

Central Europe is an ethnically, religiously, geographically, politically and economically diverse area, which is reflected in its great cultural diversity. Slovaks as a nation with their own state, as well as minorities in Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Croatia, are a unique ethno-cultural entity and a part of the Central European multicultural and...

This paper analyses the literary work of an American writer Don DeLillo, who belongs among contemporary American writers. He focuses on the manner in which contemporary human consciousness has been shaped being influenced by consumer and military technologies, media and daily life of information. Modern consumer technologies have a strong impact on...

The Incarnation plays an important role in the thinking and writing of C.S. Lewis as well as that of S. Kierkegaard. This study points to the wider perspective in the thinking of both authors namely in terms the exploration of values and ethical frameworks arising from the Incarnation. We claim here that though coming from different historical and...

Одне із завдань філософії – це пошук сенсу людського існування. Великі зусилля на це спрямовані й в екзистенціалізмі. Екзистенціалізм в своєму розумінні істин, що є об›єктивною дійсністю, переслідує ті з них, які є важливими для людей, для суб›єкта. Пошуки істини в екзис-тенційному мисленні мають інтимний характер, людина, виборюючи свої мрії, пост...

Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was known for his philosophical and theological approach to the individual, and their relationship to God and to others. In his writings, Kierkegaard analyzed the problems of society and of the private individual (values, loss of subjectivity, the impact of journalism, and the decline of the church)....

The author addresses a series of problematic questions that arise in any study or re-search of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. These issues concern both the writer and his work. Such issues include, for example, the problem of pseudonyms in the area of communication, with references to his position on knowledge and truth. The purpose here...

Central Europe is an ethnically, religiously, geographically, politically and economically diverse area, which is reflected in its great cultural diversity. Slovaks as a nation with their own state, as well as minorities in Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Croatia, are a unique ethno-cultural entity and a part of the Central European multicultural and...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of a remarkable writer, Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973), who was strongly influenced by the philosophy and thinking of the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, especially by his works Either - Or, The Concept of Anxiety, Works of Love and The Sickness Unto Death. Auden's poetry is noted for its...

This paper is a philosophical reflection on anxiety and fear in literary work of outstanding American writer Don DeLillo. Anxiety and fear are the part of human being. Some of DeLillo's novels and theatrical plays are magnificent meditations on them. This paper analyses the concept of anxiety, fear and death presented in literary work of Don DeLill...

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD) is a new spiritual trend that is increasingly changing the religious landscape of in the Euro-American cultural provenience. Though appealing to the generation of 'emerging adults' (age 18-25), MTD results in undesirable life-outcomes that prompt religious scholars, theologians, and sociologists to carefully study...

This paper analyses Kierkegaard‟s work „The Concept of Anxiety‟ and reflects its importance and meaning in the literary work of Anglo-American writer W.H. Auden. Anxiety reflects our being and each individual has to face it in different forms. The relation of anxiety to freedom and knowledge, to time and eternity is assessed with the care and sensi...

This paper analyses Don DeLillo’s novel ‘Falling Man’, which is concerned with the symbolic nature of terrorist violence portrayed and interpreted through the mass media that are able to create a specific simulacrum of reality. DeLillo’s narrative examines the possibilities of reinventing one’s individual identity and the tendency of individuals to...

Formalism in ethics may be considered the culmination of the Enlightenment. It can be interpreted as an attempt to find concrete criteria of human reason, by which humans – as ‘rational animals’ – can govern their choices and actions. Formal ethics distinguishes itself from the dogmatically interpreted ethics that prescribes concrete goods and dete...

This paper analyzes the literary and philosophical work The Moviegoer, which was written by the American writer Walker Percy. The book itself was strongly influenced by the philosophy and thoughts of the existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. The study solves an existential problem of modern man’s alienation, despair and crises in the modern ag...

This article focuses on the impact of the Søren Kierkegaard´s life and work. We analyze his religious and philosophical attitude and the way how his ideas were spread. Since he was very young he had to deal with death and was raised under very strict conditions. Kierkegaard was born in the complicated economic period of time and had to face a drama...

The extract of Ginkgo biloba (Egb) contains more than 60 active substances with a high bioavailability. EGb has extensive protective effects on the central nervous system and cerebrovascular system. As neuroprotective agent it eliminates free radicals, acts as an antioxidant and a free-radical scavenger, reduces lipid peroxidation, and is a membran...