The objective of this article is to analyse the potential ComunicARTE, an innovative Spanish Language teaching/learning program that uses project-based learning develop dialogic spaces which promote communicative competence students, together with social, emotional and motivational outcomes. Two schools have been observed in mind: experimental one using a control one. This longitudinal study pr...

As the ways of communication and interaction have diversified thanks to constantly developing changing technological possibilities, educators try do their best follow recent implementations activities better prepare students for real world demands. Telecollaboration (aka virtual intercultural exchange) is one such language which an affordable alternative study abroad. Through these studies, des...

This study investigated para-professional translators' intercultural communicative competence (ICC) level and its relation to their translations. The research design of this is descriptive research. Twelve participants are participating in the techniques data collection employed questionnaires tests. results show that : (1) average ICC translators moderate with a score 3.0; (2) translation work...

The formation of communicative competence as a leading component speech activity senior preschoolers with intellectual disabilities is long-term, multi-stage process. In accordance the objectives study, we have substantiated and identified features criteria competence. Methods comparison systematization research material are applied; deductive - for systematic description phenomenon under study...

The article aims to explain what kind of intercultural communication competence is needed in border crossing labor markets. The experiences of international higher education students and information and communications technology (ICT) experts are analyzed in different Finnish working and educational environments. We seek answers to the following questions: How are language and communicative abi...

During the course of an ethnographic study of a bilingual special education classroom, three profile types of students emerged, ranging from students with severe language learning disabilities to students with normal abilities. The study points out the inadequacy of a medical model view of student abilities and disabilities--a view that underestimates the communicative and academic competence o...

This article describes an action research experience carried out in an advanced English as a foreign language classroom of the language program at a university in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2010. The study proposes the inclusion of authentic literary texts in the English as a foreign language classroom through the implementation of four constructivist approaches as a means to develop intercul-tural c...