- Exam Preparation such as IELTS, Cambridge FCE & CAE, TOEIC - Conversation - Accent Reduction classes - Group courses for example: English for Teachers (TKT/CLIL courses), Business English, Engineering English with production site visits, Medical English, English and health workshops, English for...
Factors such as usage time, communication goals, and frequency of use influenced participants’ WTC with various groups of people. Keywords: mobile-assisted language learning; Duolingo; HelloTalk; Chinese international students; willingness to communicate 1 Introduction Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (...
Outside of the parlor, people face a similar challenge when communicating with someone who speaks a different language, a situation in which iconic gestures can likewise serve to help understanding1. With extended interactions, iconic gestures – along with indexical gestures like pointing – can sup...
Many stories surround Lord Byron's time as a student of Cambridge University.Arriving in 1805,he wrote a letter complaining that it was a place of “mess and drunkenness”.However,it seems as though Byron did manage to pass the time pleasantly enough.I'm not just talking about the pet bea...
To ascertain that the eyes are used in communication, Cambridge researchers bugged each of 100 nesting boxes with one of four pictures: a jackdaw’s face, a black-eyed jackdaw’s face,a disembodied jackdaw eye, or a featureless black image. Jackdaws reliably avoided the boxes containing brig...
First, do not bombard people with evidence. Human beings have too much information to process, and they use heuristics to filter information to make decisions quickly. Synthesise and frame evidence to help you tailor it to the ways in which policymakers demand and understand information. Second, ...
This question was in an open-answer format, and occurrences of mentions have been counted; this means that table 6 only gives an overview. The participants were then asked in what ways they work with pupils on the aspects of pronunciation they deem are the most difficult (Table 7). Table ...
阅读理解. Everybody knows that words can carry messages. People communicate with words. Books, magazines, TV and radio and films all help us to communicate with others. They all help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thi
Classroom Environment: Classroom environment was measured originally with 17 items rated on a six-point Likert scale (from 1=strongly disagree to 6=strongly agree) based on Author’s (2010) study and Zhang and Oetzel’s (2006) items capturing teachers’ instructional immediacy (e.g., “well-...
There is a prevalent notion regarding divergence in the extent of ethnocentrism and the intercultural willingness to communicate across cultures. Given this cultural divergence, research is replete with comparative studies of ethnocentrism and the interc