Communicative Competence as the Aim of Foreign Language Learning Contents 1. Introduction......................................................................................................................2 2. Communicative competence............................................................................................2 3. How to develop communicative competence..................................................................5 4. Conclusion..........................................
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How does culture effect business communication in the workplace? Home » Information Technology » Intro to Business Communication » How does culture effect business communication in the workplace? Cultural awareness in communication is crucial in today’s workplace. Businesses must adjust and accommodate new attitudes‚ rules‚ and values that are merging in this intercultural society and workplace. Businesses need to be aware of stereotypes‚ prejudices‚ and generalizations and proactively educate employees
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Communicative Approach (Ministry of Education 1988; Savignon 1987). Communicative competence "has come to be used in language teaching contexts to refer to the ability to negotiate meaning‚ to successfully combine a knowledge of linguistic and sociolinguistic rules in communicative interactions"(Savignon 1987: 16). At the same time‚ the advance of cognitive psychology‚ which was also influenced by the Chomskian revolution‚ made an impact on ELT (Titone & Danesi 1985). The findings of cognitive
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Lesson 1 Notes archaeological anthropology | The study of human behavior and cultural patterns and processes through the culture’s material remains. | ascribed status | Social status (e.g.‚ race or gender) that people have little or no choice about occupying. | cultural anthropology | The study of human society and culture; describes‚ analyzes‚ interprets‚ and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. | cultural relativism | The position that the values and standards
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Learning a Second Language Acquiring a second language is a goal many adults set for themselves. Students have the ability to take foreign language courses early on in their education‚ but not many adults who attended school years ago had that option. The level of ease or difficulty in learning a second language is dependent on the stage of brain development and the style of learning. There are different options for learning a second language‚ and it can be most effective at a young age
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different types of advertisement.= and its function and aim. Review of previous study Research related to code mixing in advertisement has been done by many cities and countries. For example‚ in Japan‚ Takashi (1990) wrote an article name A Sociolinguistic Analysis of English Borrowings in Japanese Advertising Texts‚ which shows how code mixing is used in Japanese advertisement. Bentahila and Davies (1983) study the usage of code-mixing in French advertisements. These articles will be taken as reference
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Lang Policy (2009) 8:117–137 DOI 10.1007/s10993-009-9124-0 ORIGINAL PAPER Assumptions behind Singapore’s language-in-education policy: implications for language planning and second language acquisition L. Quentin Dixon Received: 30 September 2007 / Accepted: 14 January 2009 / Published online: 27 February 2009 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Abstract Singapore’s officially bilingual education policy‚ in which the majority of children are schooled through a non-native medium
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Linguistic imperialism occurs when the language of a large or dominant population or the language of power transfers to other people in the same or neighboring areas. There are many types of linguistic imperialism and many causes of it. Causes include immigration‚ conquest‚ trade and cultural superiority. The spread of religions that transcend local cultures and languages can also cause linguistic imperialism. Such changes in language can be forced or can take place through natural changes. Acts
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society think need to can’t afford to and they shouldn’t have to. Another example of how language or dialects display social stratification is the studies of r prononuciation in New York city. In this studies‚ their purpose was determine how sociolinguistics variation coorelated with social class by studying three different stores that targerted three different social class group and the result were predictable. The class personel or the workers reflects or represent their audience‚ for example the
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THE LANGUAGE OF HUMOUR – THE HUMOUR OF LANGUAGE IRONY AND HUMOUR IN INTERPERSONAL VERBAL ENCOUNTERS Zsuzsanna Ajtony Abstract: In this paper the problem of verbal humour and irony is approached from a sociolinguistic perspective‚ starting from the Semantic Script Theory of Humour (Raskin 1985)‚ which establishes that all humour involves a semantic-pragmatic process. Humour should be understood and appreciated shared sociocultural knowledge; a common code should exist between speaker and recipient
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