Recent controversy in the treatment of communication apprehension and avoidance has centered around whether an individual's communicative difficulties are caused by communicative (skills) deficiency or psychological problems (anxiety). Such debates are not new; arguments about whetimr to treat communicative difficulties from a communicative or a psychological perspective date back to the foundi...

Role-plays provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate how to use English in real life situations and make them focus more on communication than on grammar. Oral presentations like conversations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. Therefore, this paper makes an attempt to investigate whether teaching conversation through role play affects the students’ speaki...

thought-based and wisdom-centered actions have always made different civilizations and cultures closer together. these actions need continuous and stable trends. remaining fixed in a changing world inflicts severe damages on the society and culture. in this regard, the dialogue among civilizations can open many new ways which were non-existent or hardly achievable in the past. meanwhile, the di...

A mark up language for tagging discourse, and for converting discourse sequences into a written format, according to highly context sensitive procedures, will be illustrated as well as a system for document annotation. The context in which a given communicative intercourse has taken place needs to be made available to ensure consistent interpretation of both single sequences of discourse and gl...

The interest in communicative problems on the part of representatives various scientific fields is largely explained by fact that communication can be considered a necessary and general condition human life one fundamental foundations society’s existence.The purpose article to study competence older preschool children with special educational needs.When communicating needs, educator must take i...

Till date, English as a Second Language (ESL) educators involved in teaching language and communication to engineering students face an uphill task in developing graduate communicative competency. This challenge is accentuated by the apparent lack of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) materials for engineering students in the engineering curriculum. As such, most ESL educators are forced to pl...

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) provides a way for persons with limited or no verbal speech to communicate. Augmentative systems provide a means to enhance speech; alternative systems provide a substitution for speech (Quill, 2000). AAC includes unaided systems, such as manual signs and gestures; aided voice output systems; and aided nonvoice output systems, such as symbols and...

Motor skill deficits are present and persist in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Staples & Reid, 2010). Yet the focus of intervention is on core impairments, which are part of the diagnostic criteria for ASD, deficits in social communication skills. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the functional motor skills, of 6- to 15-year-old children with high-func...

With the advent of communicative language teaching, textbook evaluation has received a considerable attention over the last two decades. However, only a few studies have been conducted on the evaluation of newlydeveloped textbooks for junior high schools in Iran; therefore, this paper aimed to evaluate the Iranian junior high school new textbook "Prospect" and its old version Right Path to Engl...