https://dspace.aab-edu.net/handle/123456789/1219 2026-04-27T04:35:52Z https://dspace.aab-edu.net/handle/123456789/1232 Quitting with Style: Linguistic Analysis of Political Resignation Speeches Neshkovska, Silvana Political discourse mainly serves as a platform where a struggle for power takes place. Nevertheless, political resignation speeches stand out because their purpose is completely different – politicians relinquish power to other political actors. Quitting a high-ranking public position is never a simple matter; consequently, politicians are extremely cautious in coming forward with well-structured and well-phrased speeches. This research looks into the syntactic formula politicians apply in announcing their resignation. The focus is placed on determining the types of sentences (both according to function and structure) the resigning politicians prefer; their usage of syntactically marked sentences versus sentences in which the SVOCA rule is observed. Finally, the different realizations of the Subject and the use of passive voice are analysed, since these are deemed to have a direct bearing on the amount of responsibility politicians assume. The study offers a linguistic analysis of the resignation speeches of the last three British Prime Ministers and is directed at finding commonalities and differences in the syntactic features of their resignation speeches. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://dspace.aab-edu.net/handle/123456789/1231 Inclusion of Children with Emotional Disorders in Lesson Planning by Educators Buza, Violeta; Murati, Amina All children are entitled to equal conditions for a normal life, regardless of their health issues or disorders. Therefore, we consider that educators should give attention to children with emotional disorders while performing their lesson planning, including the organisation and implementation of activities indoors and outdoors relevant to their overall development. The treatment of children with emotional disorders is an important process and currently their situation is not satisfactory; therefore, educators should work harder to improve their conditions, getting to know more about the sensitive situation of these children. The study highlights the work performed by educators in preschool institutions in cooperation with parents to offer a better development for children with emotional disorders in all the areas. The research is based on the data collected in preschool institutions in Prishtina through questionnaires with educators and parents of children with emotional disorders and with no disorder, and interviews conducted with the directors of preschool institutions. From the data analysis, it results that currently, the treatment of children with emotional disorders is not at the Article. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://dspace.aab-edu.net/handle/123456789/1230 The Republic of Objects: Prolegomena to an Object-Oriented Reading of A Tour on the Prairies Mikado, Naruhiko This article has two purposes. First, it attempted to introduce ‘flat ontology’ and ‘withdrawal’, two of many concepts of object-oriented ontology (OOO), as effective intellectual devices to dissect a literary text, especially in order to investigate the complexity of contacts between/among various existences on a horizontal surface. Second, it examined how the narrator of A Tour on the Prairies, one of the underappreciated texts of Washington Irving, gradually begins to doubt the naive human/nonhuman binary and broadens his horizons through an encounter with another object, wild bees in this case. In conclusion, it demonstrated that, when read from an object- oriented outlook, this text proved to offer a rich world in which every single object acts and exists on its own right, and thus to entice its readers to rethink humans’ position within the ‘republic of objects’. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://dspace.aab-edu.net/handle/123456789/1229 The Impact of Professional Practice Standards in t he Professional Development and Performance Assessment of School Directors Beshiri Hana, Ujkane; Bicaj, Arbërore Professional practice standards for school directors serve as a strategic tool to train and prepare school directors, and to improve the quality of education in institutions they lead. Over the last two decades, the education sector in Kosovo has been experiencing continuous changes so that a higher quality and genuine education of new generations is achieved, and having in mind that a school director is a key factor in coordinating the processes within school institutions, there are requirements for their professional development. To verify the usage and the impact of professional practice standards in professional development practice and performance assessment of school directors, a theoretical and empirical research has been carried out with primary and lower secondary school directors (N=26) and upper secondary school directors (N=11) in Prishtina and its suburb. From data analysis resulting from the quantitative approach (N = 37) it has been confirmed that, in Kosovo. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z