Religious and Multi-cultural Values in Character-Based English Education

Particularism and Multi - Cultural Education :

Exploring the Impacts of Cultural Globalization on Cultural Awareness/ Values and English Writing in Chinese Context

This article explores the impacts of cultural globalization on the cultural awareness and orientation of cultural values among educated Chinese young people and on English writing of Chinese college students. It demonstrates that, while making fast achievements in its economy in the process of globalization, China has also gone through great changes in its national culture in the areas of tradi...

Medical Sciences Education based on Religious Spiritualism

the term “spirituality” has been proposed to denote the notion of intellectuality. Actually, the former has been derived from the Latin words “spiritus” (means breath) and “spirare” (means inhaling or breathing). Given the Latin translations of the New Testament, the term “spiritualis” or spiritual person is an individual whose life is dominated or influenced by the Holy Spirit or God (1).

‘Early interactions’ in Australian English, American English, and English English: Cultural differences and cultural scripts

This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English, American English, and English English. It proposes for each variety a distinctive suite of cultural scripts concerning matters such as presumed stance in relation to sameness and difference, degree of attention to...

Neural Network-based English Alphanumeric Character Recognition

Propose a neural-network based size and color invariant character recognition system using feed-forward neural network. Our feed-forward network has two layers. One is input layer and another is output layer. The whole recognition process is divided into four basic steps such as pre-processing, normalization, network establishment and recognition. Pre-processing involves digitization, noise rem...