Development of an English Communicative Competence Diagnostic Approach

Development of Communicative Competence 1 Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Development of Communicative Competence Through Private and Inner Speech

An Investigation of Iranians and International English Students'Attitudes towards Intercultural Communicative Competence

The present study aimed to investigate the attitudes and perceived nature of thinking and understanding towards intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among International English major students. Accordingly, this study employed the paradigm of a sequential mixed-method research, in which it comprised a qualitative phase followed by a quantitative phase. The participants of the first phase...

conceptual metaphor and the acquisition of english metaphorical competence by persian english majors: a cognitive linguistic approach

بنا براستدلال زبانشناسان شناختی ، اندیشه آدمی تا حدّ زیادی استعاری است: ما اندیشه ای را، و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّنی را، بر حسب اندیشه و یا قلمرو مفهومی معیّن دیگری درک ویا تجربه می کنیم. موارد این نوع اندیشیدن ، که استعارات مفهومی خوانده می شوند، در زبان های گوناگون به صورت تعبیرات استعاری واقعیّت می یابند. به گمان بعضی از پزوهشگران زبان دوم، آموزش وفراگیری این گونه تعبیرات باید بخشی لازم از برنامه ه...

In Pursuit of Intercultural Communicative Competence in EFL Context: Exploring Iranian English Teachers’ Perceptions

The current study attempted to cast light on the status quo of Iranian EFL teachers' perceptions of ICC. It further attempted to see if their experience would influence their conceptualizations of ICC. To this end, a total of 100 EFL teachers were asked to complete a questionnaire survey adapted from Han & Song's (2011) study. The results of both quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed a...

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...