The objective of this study was to investigate effects the Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) method in enhancing college students’ English Communicative Competence. This quantitative adopted a quasi- experimental design. sample chosen intact groups consisting 80 first-year non-English majors from two different classes Chinese vocational colleges. students were divided into groups, i.e. ...

Methodologies of research aimed at achieving social impact, such as the Communicative Methodology (CM), have overcome instrumental uses language. Alongside these, on memory has shown how this is not a static construct but one that continuously evolving through interaction. Research youths’ sexual-affective relationships impact currently combines these two frameworks. However, from methodologica...

Metaphorical creativity does not constitute a static property of discourse. It is an interactive dynamic process created online. There has been a lack of research concerning online produced metaphorical creativity. This paper intends to account for metaphorical creativity in online talk-in-interaction as a dynamic process that emerges as discourse unfolds. It brings together insights from the e...

It has been widely accepted that language is not only a system of rules, but a dynamic resource for the creation of meaning. In that sense, it is essential to distinguish between knowing various grammatical rules and being able to use these rules effectively when communicating. This view has underpinned one of the most popular approaches to language – communicative language teaching. The aim of...

Abstract Genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. Genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. The present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their reading...

Public speaking involved the performance of one person (speaker, rhetorician) in front audience, with speaker assigned an active role, and audience – a passive one. At present stage, form public speech communication changes from monologue to dialogic is implemented types forms dialogue dispute, discussion, interview, debate, etc. Means dialogization, including questions (clarifying, rhetorical,...

The purpose of the research is to develop a technology for internal affairs personnel intensive training based on value attitude aimed at achieving planned results. article presents using example who study foreign language as part implementation an advanced educational programme. Scientific novelty lies in technological approach process intensification context (readiness) mastering foreign-lang...

introduction. in the current screening system, new admissions are based on general intelligence as measured by universities entrance examination. considering the fact that an important function of medical graduates is to educate the patients how to restore and take care of their health, communicative competence and skills would be, at least, as important as general intelligence. to show that la...

In the throes of an educational transformation from a print culture to a digitized culture, educators face an important challenge of how to define e-learning productivity. This article reviews the meanings of learning productivity from the selective literature and points out the need to conceptualize learning productivity in an e-learning environment. It draws on Habermas’ Cognitive Interests T...

Although studies have shown cue-based feeding can lead to earlier achievement of full oral feeding, the successful implementation of cue-based feeding has been constrained by the volume-driven culture, which has existed for many years in the NIC U. This culture was built on the notion that a "better" nurse is one who could "get more in," and infants who are "poor feeders" are ones who "can't ta...