International trauma training: teaching and evaluating physicians in a cross cultural setting

Evaluating eHealth: Undertaking Robust International Cross-Cultural eHealth Research

eHealth—the use of electronic tools in delivering health care [1]—is rapidly emerging as an international priority in nations at all levels of development, yet the benefits and priorities have not clearly been defined. The result is that there is an urgent need for additional research in this area. International research to evaluate the impact of eHealth would be especially helpful, and unless ...

Cross - Cultural Training a Review

ROGRAMS designed for preparing people for living in another culture are usually referred to as “Cross-Cultural or Intercultural Orientation Programs.” It seems that the early practitioners and researchers viewed preparing people for international assignment as a process in which one needed to be oriented to the differences in social interactions between the two cultures. It is no surprise that ...

Training Faculty for Cultural Teaching

a cross-cultural analysis of metadiscourse features in persian and english opinion columns ( تجزیه و تحلیل بین فرهنگی عناصر فرامتنی در مقاله های دیدگاهی فارسی و انگلیسی )

this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...