Language and culture are two inseparable entities. Therefore, language learning is at once a cultural learning. One‟s mastery of the linguistic elements alone does not guarantee he will be able to communicate through a language. Mastering the cultural element is a must. This paper discusses various research findings and opinions on the integration of culture into the teaching of foreign languag...

one of the main problems in the efficiency and efficacy of an organization is its structural issue. organizational culture is also considered as an effective factor in the performance of many organizations. the main goal of the present study was to determine the relationship of centralization and organizational culture and performance indexes in teaching hospitals affiliated to tehran universit...

OBJECTIVES To identify the factors associated with medical students' clinical reasoning (CR) use and evidence-based medicine (EBM) use in the clinical setting. METHODS Our cross-sectional study surveyed 44 final-year medical students at an emerging academic medical center in Singapore. We queried the students' EBM and CR value and experiences in the classroom and clinical settings. We compare...

In this paper we would like to tackle the problem of user participation, respectively the lack of it, in e-learning platforms, especially in tele-teaching environments. As the basis we use the idea of a culture of participation to analyse existing systems and suggest enhancements for them. Our aim is to help improve the active engagement and collaboration of learners with the learning material ...

Aiming at problems existing in the process of establishing innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, the paper brings forward the basic characteristics of innovative teaching teams and the countermeasures of establishing innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, which include improving study structure of the teams, continuous study and strengthening continuous innova...

This study investigated the cognition of 70 Tunisian teachers on the place of culture in English education. It showed that Tunisian teachers believe that English textbooks and curricular documents are not specific about the cultural dimension of EFL. It also revealed that L2 teachers, whose mother culture is distant from that associated with L2, hold ambivalent attitudes towards culture. They a...