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Download full textCortoni, Ida; LoPresti, Veronica; Cervelli, Pierluigi – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
The European Commission considers the development of digital competences a strategic action to spread and to develop a more active digital participation of citizens. The objective is to increase the level of digital competence in the European citizens up to 2015 and to reduce the number of those who don't use new technologies and don't surf the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technological Literacy, Listening Skills, Problem Solving
Direct linkBirch, Phil David John; Batten, John; Manley, Andrew John; Smith, Matthew Jeffery – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the informational cues that students perceive to be influential when developing initial impressions and expectancies of a lecturer. Undergraduate university students (n = 452) were required to rate the extent to which 30 informational cues (e.g. gender, qualifications) influence their initial perceptions of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Chapman, Mark – ELT Journal, 2007
Discourse intonation attempts to explain how intonation patterns in English affect the communicative value of speech, through the use of falling and rising tones along with changes in pitch. The teaching of intonation seems to sit naturally with communicative language learning, but it is not an easy aspect of English to incorporate into the EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intonation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Nyyssonen, Heikki – 1992
This paper is concerned with a discourse-based approach to lexis and, in particular, the discourse role of lexical patterns or lexicalized sequences which are completely or partially preassembled and more or less fixed in form. Lexical patterns, their function in a community's codes, and the cultural differences that may arise in their use, are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis
Hoppe, Ronald A.; Kess, Joseph F. – 1987
A discussion of discourse patterns in the professional interactions of lawyers and physicians suggests that these encounters are programmatic exchanges to which the psycholinguistic rules of processing and inference can be applied. In these professions, the constraints of normal discourse patterns interact with the conventions of giving and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDabene, Louise; Billiez, Jacqueline – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France was examined, and a model proposed for classification of code-switching according to speakers' intentions and the dynamics of the interaction. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills
Liaw, Meei-Ling – 1996
A study investigated the communication strategies used by students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in electronic mail interactions with native speakers of English. Subjects were 22 university students in Taiwan paired with a like number of pre-service EFL teacher trainees in the United States. The discourse of 87 e-mail entries by the…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
Kocoglu, Zeynep – 1997
A study investigated: (1) the communication strategies (CSs) used by Turkish learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) when interacting with native English speakers, and (2) the influence of gender on use of CSs when communication difficulties occur because of limited English proficiency. Subjects were ten native Turkish-speaking ESL learners…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cooperation
