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Download full textBarrett, Martyn; Byram, Michael – Intercultural Communication Education, 2020
In a recent paper, Simpson and Dervin (2019a) offer a radical critique of the Council of Europe's "Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture" (RFCDC). However, Simpson and Dervin's paper contains numerous factual errors, interpretative errors and category errors in its description of the RFCDC. We identify 12 such errors…
Descriptors: Criticism, Guidelines, Error Patterns, Misconceptions
Qiannan, Ma – English Language Teaching, 2012
Because of the increasing international image of China, the translation of public signs in city has become the very important issue. From the point of view of cross-cultural communication, the public signs have crucial influence on the image of the city, even for the whole China. However, there exist many translation errors of the public signs in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Zhao, Changhua – English Language Teaching, 2013
In Inner Mongolia, those Mongolian students face lots of difficulties in learning English. Especially the English translation ability of Mongolian students is a weak point. It is worth to think a problem that how to let our students use the English freely on a certain foundation. This article investigates the problems of Mongolian English learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation
Zhao, Heping – 1992
Victor Raskin's taxonomy of knowledge, based on semantics theory, is adapted and applied to composition in English as a Second Language (ESL). Raskin's classification of knowledge as linguistic and encyclopedic is converted to a continuum from textual to extra-contextual, with contextual knowledge situated between the two. Textual knowledge is…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedVance, Richard P.; Prichard, Robert W. – Journal of Legal Education, 1992
A survey of 144 first-year law students from 78 undergraduate institutions investigated their level of cultural literacy. On average, students identified 24.1 percent of the 250 test items correctly, with widely varying error patterns by subject. It is concluded that students come to law school without enough factual information about our culture.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Error Patterns
Kohonen, Viljo, Ed.; And Others – 1985
A collection of papers on language testing addresses these topics: language tests seen from a communicative viewpoint; microcomputers and testing; productive second language skills; developing teachers' assessment skills; content validity of holistic tests; statistical regression in group conversation tests; reading comprehension; unique…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
