Employers’ Perspectives on Workplace Communication Skills: The Meaning of Communication Skills

The effect of physicians’ communication skills on patients’ satisfaction

Introduction: A pleasing communication and interaction between physician and patient can be effective in patients’ satisfaction, treatment outcome, medical charges, clinical services quality, and even claim against physicians. This study was performed to evaluate patients’ satisfaction with physicians’ manners with them in Ghods Clinic of Tehran in year 2010. Methods: Totally 392 patients were...

the effect of pushed output collaborative tasks on the writing skills of efl learners

there is less published research about how teachers in efl contexts respond to students who are relatively less mature and less competent l2 writers. while writing researchers have examined various issues concerning peer and teacher response in writing-oriented classes, little research has centered on the effect of collaborative tasks particularly dictogloss on writing skills. output collaborat...

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The Communication Skills as Selection Criteria of Iranian National Table Tennis Coach: Sport Elites Perspectives

The purpose of this study was to determine the prioritization and comparison of communication skills as a selection criterion of Iran's national table tennis coach from the sport elites perspectives. As this was a descriptive study, survey methodology was employed. The study population consisted of 100 table tennis sport elites of whom 80 subjects were randomly selected using the Morgan table. ...

the effect of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills on speaking ability of iranian efl learners

abstract the main purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills and that of learners who were trained without the above mentioned task. the participants of this study consist of 60 intermediate level students participating languag...