Teaching English has become a major necessity for developing areas in Asian countries due to globalization. The general purpose of this paper is to discuss the problems related with the novel tendency of teaching English for Asian educational system. This paper discusses the requirements of educational system in Asia for teaching English as well as on the mode of training English applicable ski...

Introduction In the Current Population Survey, a household survey from which labor force estimates are produced, selected housing units remain in sample during a 16-month period. The households are interviewed during the first 4 and last 4 months of this period. These interview months are referred to as “month-in-sample” (MIS) 1 to 8. Matching households between months allows an analysis of the...

The influence of emotion on (the early stages of) speech production processes, notably content selection has received little scholarly attention. Goudbeek & Krahmer (2012) found evidence for alignment at the conceptual level: speakers may start using a dispreferred attribute over a preferred attribute in their referring expressions when they are primed by a prerecorded female voice in a precedi...

This analysis of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study tests the ability of women’s economic independence to explain the propensity to remarry. More broadly, it examines the effects of men’s and women’s socioeconomic prospects on remarriage following divorce. Theories emphasizing women’s economic independence predict that women with the greatest alternatives to marriage will be least likely to remar...

Previous research has provided evidence that second language (L2) learners use gesture to enhance spoken communication with interlocutors, and that gesture facilitates L2 word learning. The current study investigates how L2 learners use gesture to communicate in conversational settings, and whether their gesturing in these settings facilitates L2 acquisition beyond the immediate context. The re...

Entrepreneurial profits flow from differences in expectations between buyers and sellers regarding the future value of resources. The current paper investigates whether differences in expectations can be manipulated, molded, or manufactured by an entrepreneur to produce greater profits. It is concluded that a range of techniques are available to manage expectations and that the use of these tec...

This study investigates the effect of contrastive stress on nasal coarticulation in English. There are two opposing findings about the correlation between coarticulation and hyperarticulation in the literature: first, that emphasis results in timing patterns which reduce coarticulation; second, that both increased hyperarticulation and increased coarticulation have been observed in words of sim...

Sustainable development and corporate environmental responsibility are becoming closely tied with business competitiveness in modern economy. Given the impetus organizations have to enhance their sustainability image, there is a lack of research that examines the relationship between corporations’ messages to shareholders and their environmental and social responsibility. The current paper pres...