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Edelstein, Richard – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2014
University learning objectives and the curriculum have evolved to include more knowledge, skills and aptitudes related to the increasingly international nature of a broad range of professions and occupations. More broadly, graduates are expected to know more about the world outside their home country in order to be informed and responsible…
Descriptors: Global Education, Higher Education, College Curriculum, Educational Objectives
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Hall, Joan Kelly – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1993
This article offers a linguistic and paralinguistic explication of the oral practice of chismeando (gossiping) as engaged in by a group of women from the Dominican Republic. A culture-specific study of the structuring resources by which the participants construct, maintain, and/or modify their in-group identities in everyday oral practice is…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Intergroup Relations, Language Research
Hamers, Josiane F. – 1987
The literature of psycholinguistics and multilingualism is reviewed to examine the relationship between macrological social variables such as social class, and individual variables related to language behavior in a multilingual setting. The growing body of evidence assessing the link between certain social and community dimensions and specific…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Intergroup Relations, Language Processing, Language Usage