Language and culture are intrinsically intertwined, should not be considered as an expendable fifth skill in language teaching. Bilingual programs expected to a key element enhance learning develop intercultural competence due the extensive use of L2. This study aimed at exploring effects bilingual for development formerly mentioned skills learners. It also sought contrast students’ insights wi...

Do community pharmacists coming from different educational backgrounds rank the importance of competences for practice differently-or is the way in which they see their profession more influenced by practice than university education? A survey was carried out on 68 competences for pharmacy practice in seven countries with different pharmacy education systems in terms of the relative importance ...

This study empirically tests a heuristic model of non-technical engineering competences. The results of factor analysis and regression analysis support the model proposing six non-technical competence domains consisting of 19 competences engineers use in their everyday work. Furthermore, the competence domains have a shared component with their neighboring competences. Engineers use more freque...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to show how librarians today need to be cultural entrepreneurs in order to create and maintain thriving libraries in the Internet age. Design/methodology/approach – The “creative class” theory developed by Richard Florida (2002) has been widely and rapidly embraced by many policy makers around the world. Findings – Cultural entrepreneurship in libraries...

Modeling competences is an integral part of many Human Resource (HR) and e-Learning related activities. HR departments use competence descriptions to define requirements needed for performing specific tasks or jobs. The same competences are acquired by employees and applicants by e.g. experience or certifications. Typically, HR departments need to match such required and acquired competences in...

This paper focuses on information systems (IS) competences in small firms. The paper draws on prior IS research that has used resource-based theory. The literature was used to identify many types of IS resources and competences, predominantly based on research in large firms. The paper reports evidence gained from interviews within nine small manufacturing firms using the Peppard & Ward (2004) ...

Because intercultural communicative competence has a tremendous influence on the cultural component of language teaching/ learning, this article is concise literature review competence. In fact, curricula designers have put strong emphasis definitions and implementations communication to provide tasks that enhance learners’ cross-cultural competences. It worth mentioning not new concept in fiel...