Multilingualism as a Business Development Factor

Business Size as a Factor in Business Leader Mobility

Jennifer Jenkins Repositioning English and multilingualism in English as a

In the relatively few years since empirical research into English as a Lingua Franca began being conducted more widely, the field has developed and expanded remarkably, and in myriad ways. In particular, researchers have explored ELF from the perspective of a range of linguistic levels and in an ever-increasing number of sociolinguistic contexts, as well as its synergies with the field of Inter...

Designing a Model of Ethical Business Strategies in Industrial Development

Background: The importance of ethics and business is one of the important categories that recognizing its role on industrial development has attracted the attention of many thinkers of different religions, especially Islam. Therefore, this research has been done with the aim of designing a model of business ethical strategies for better industrial development, in order to take an important step...

Business Restructuring as a Method of Strengtening Company’s Financial Position

Restructuring  is relevant for companies that have free capital and need to expand for development purposes, as well as for companies that have relatively large problems with financial results and the relevant indicators indicate the necessary changes. Motives of the restructuring may be different, the authors put forward the following reasons: operation operational synergy, financial synergy, ...

Intelligent virtual agents as language trainers facilitate multilingualism

IN THIS PAPER WE INTRODUCE A NEW GENERATION OF LANGUAGE TRAINERS intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) with human appearance and the capability to teach foreign language vocabulary. We report results from studies that we have conducted with Billie, an IVA employed as a vocabulary trainer, as well as research findings on the acceptance of the agent as a trainer by adults and children. The results sh...