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Rafieyan, Vahid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
National cultural distance is considered to be a strong predictor of language learners' pragmatic competence. To test the actual effect of national cultural distance on pragmatic competence holistically and comprehension and production aspects of pragmatic competence discretely, the current study was conducted on two groups of undergraduate…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Cultural Differences, Multivariate Analysis, Undergraduate Students
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Ahmadi Safa, Mohammad; Moradi, Mohammad; Hamzavi, Raouf – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2015
The current study aimed at investigating the nature of EFL teachers and learners' perspectives on the intercultural competence potentiality of an EFL textbook, i.e. "Top Notch Series," which is used extensively in Iranian institutional EFL context. To this end, forty EFL teachers and eighty-eight advanced EFL learners from private…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Questionnaires, Cultural Awareness, Language Teachers
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Read, Karen; Aldridge, Jill; Ala'i, Kate; Fraser, Barry; Fozdar, Farida – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2015
This article reports part of an ongoing process that is taking place at one high school. With the vision of an inclusive school in which all students could flourish, the school deliberately set out to develop a culture in which the students would feel welcome, connected and have a sense of belonging. This article focuses on, first, how the school,…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Resilience (Psychology), Well Being, Moral Values
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de Wet, Catharina F.; Gubbins, E. Jean – Roeper Review, 2011
This study investigated teachers' beliefs about culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse (CLED) gifted students. The newly developed "Teachers' Beliefs About Culturally, Linguistically, and Economically Diverse Gifted Students Survey" was administered to a stratified, random sample of 4,000 teachers from eight states. Three…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Standardized Tests, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Shawer, Saad F. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
This investigation examines English as foreign language college interdisciplinary and intercultural differences in learning strategy use and their implications for language processing. Positivism underpins this research at the levels of ontology (standardized variables), epistemology (detachment from the subjects) and methodology, using nomothetic…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Stereotypes