Review of the monograph: V.E. Golovchiner, T.L. Vesnina. Comic features in plays by M. Bulgakov in the 1920-ies. Tomsk: Izd-vo Tom. un-ta, 2021, 140 p. ISBN 978-5-7511-2628-5

The present review is devoted to monograph by Valentina E. Golovchiner and Tatiana L. Vesnina Comic features in plays by M. Bulgakov in the 1920s, which examines the dramatic language of Bulgakovs plays through the prism of the artistic and journalistic genre of feuilleton. The author comes to the conclusion that the published monograph is a major study of the actual problem of constructing an artistic language and contains significant theoretical and practical results that can be used in the scientific and educational activities of teachers, teachers, students, graduate students and doctoral students.

Investigation of Security Challenges from the Perspective of Stakeholders in IoT

Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the major study concerns and prospects in recent times. The ecosystem that makes the interconnection between person, objects, device in a secured acceptable and useful manner is in the boundary of Internet of Things. One of the major concerns in IoT is its security and the technologies which are working behind. The security measures are taken under a vast amount of studies and applications. The concept of this research is to consider the existing technologies that are working for security assurance and the challenges which are faced by different angles of participants and manufacturers due to make IoT a secure electronic ecosystem. Basically, the focus over the security challenges are on the stakeholders and they are user, manufacturer and service provider.

Effects of Study-Abroad Experiences on Chinese Students ’ L2 Learning Activities and Study-Abroad Motivations

This study explores how overseas exchange opportunities might influence Chinese students ’ engagement in L2 learning activities and how far such opportunities may satisfy their motivation to study abroad. The analysis of the data, collected and filtered from carefully designed questionnaires and interviews, showed that students ’ L2 learning activities and study-abroad motivations underwent changes after their overseas experiences. Regarding the former, the overseas environment was the cause of the change because it provided students with more chances to talk with native speakers and increased the frequency of their using L2 in their daily life. Regarding the latter, the decline of the students ’ major study-abroad motivations was partly because they tended to treat L2 learning as a tool for realizing other goals and partly because the students had got other important motivations. In view of these findings, suggestions were raised to help future students get better prepared for their overseas study or short-term exchange life.

COVID-19 and Its Current Trends with Long Term Implication

BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 is a serious medical threat that is posed before since more than a year. Scientists and researchers from all over the world are working on the solution on the ongoing problem. SUMMARY The mutated strain of the novel coronavirus has been successful in creating a buzz around the circuit of concerned people. The COVID-19 is being uncertain throughout its stay and any prediction would possibly go wrong. Long term implications may lack some major study but many lessons and parallels can be drawn from the previous similar outbreaks of SARS and MERS. CONCLUSION More fact based along with broad based study is needed to understand and correlate the COVID-19 and its long-term implications.

A NEW APPROACH IN PIANO TEACHING: WE TEACHERS CAN COMPOSE REPERTOIRE IN MINIMALISM FOR STUDENTS

Patterns and repetitions are the essence of studies and exercises for piano. In music history, among composers, Carl Czerny (1791–1857) composed a great number of easy pieces for piano pedagogy that widely employed patterns and repetitions. Nowadays, minimalistic music is a new style but overlaps with the traditional repertoire of piano pedagogy on this emphasis. To employ minimalistic music in piano teaching is a new approach. Further, piano teachers can even compose pedagogical repertoire in minimalism for students. Here, I introduced my own experiences of composing such music for my students. The result was proved satisfactory in teaching. Many piano teachers composed music for their students, which was a convention in piano teaching in music history. They contributed huge amount of repertoire to piano. In the meanwhile, they were dedicated to teaching as well. Nowadays, this practice is still shining in A New Approach in Piano Teaching 6 piano pedagogy. There is a great number of piano teachers who compose music for piano pedagogy. They naturally make the music collections and published them. Undoubtedly, music composition is a specific major study in music schools and conservatories. However, the twenty-first century is an era of free style, like you can mix drinks of different flavors from a beverage machine. Further, minimalism naturally brings a solution for achieving your own piano pedagogical pieces. You can have a try! It is so fun and joyful, when you teach your students your own pieces and then enjoy progresses your students make. Ultimately, this practice will bring you such happiness when they can even memorize and perform your music. Of course, it will be fantastic if you publish your music for piano pedagogy.