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Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
This state-of-the-art article includes a review of past and recent studies on multilingualism at work in European environments. One aim is to provide the reader with a cross-cultural picture of workplace studies on various languages in Europe, another to discuss both positive and problem-based accounts of multilingualism at work. The overview…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Work Environment, Global Approach, Technological Advancement
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Timpe Laughlin, Veronika; Wain, Jennifer; Schmidgall, Jonathan – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
This review paper constitutes the first step within a larger research effort to develop an interactive pragmatics learning tool for second and foreign language (L2) learners and users of English. The tool will primarily endeavor to support pragmatics learning within the language use domain "workplace." Given this superordinate objective,…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
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Louhiala-Salminen, Leena – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Reports on an observation study of the discourse activities for one day of a Finnish business manager who works in a multinational corporation. His discourse activities were tape recorded and copies were taken of written materials. Examined salient features that characterize discourse activities in a multinational corporation and tested the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)