511 commercial emails from four asian countries, namely china, pakistan, india, and iran have been analyzed in a mixed-method design. the focus of the study is on the two features of politeness and intimacy. in the quantitative analysis, the model proposed by brown & levinson (1987) and that of coulmas (2005) which have drawn upon the features of indirectness in requesting and the length of...

this study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by iranian nonnative speakers (nnss) of english and canadian native speakers (nss) of english to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and l1’s (possible) influence. ...

Classroom access to computers, smart phones, and the Internet may be indispensable for teaching and learning both for the student and instructor, yet these technologies can also be an impediment to learning as students tend to use them to engage in activities unrelated to the classwork. Using survey data collected from 187 US and 204 Namibian university students, this paper examines the factors...

This paper applies bibliometrics visualization analysis software CiteSpace-6.1.6 and CNKI as the data source analyzes literature published in domestic journals during 1994-2022, order to understand development trend main issues of cross-cultural communication field international Chinese education. The results bibliometric cluster show that past 30 years, research topics this mainly focus on 17 ...

In the past decades, information and communications technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally changed higher education and research, with the emergence of the World Wide Web—the greatest human-information construct in history—and the introduction of ICTs in teaching and learning, which spurred new interactive dynamiclearning methodologies and enabled cross-cultural and flexible collaborative inter...

PURPOSE Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) use standardized patients (SPs) to teach and evaluate medical students' skills. Few studies describe using OSCEs for cultural competence education, now a Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation standard for medical schools. We designed an OSCE station emphasizing cross-cultural communication skills (ccOSCE) and interviewed ...