the idea that teaching a foreign language has a cultural dimension isn't new.this study is a review of literature on the importance of the synchronized teaching ofculture and language and the exising challenges in this area.thispaper deals with questions like:what is the aim of teaching culture?what are the constituent components of culture?what aspects of culture should be taught and what...

There are very few sources of information about industry needs in regard to the required Design for All knowledge and skills for designers and engineers. A common finding of many studies, besides technical feasibility and commercial viability, is the lack of awareness among suppliers and users on DfA. In this paper, some of the results of a series of workshops organized by Fraunhofer FIT under ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a disease management intervention on rehospitalization rates in hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients. METHODS Patients treated with the TEACH-HF intervention that included Teaching and Education, prompt follow-up Appointments, Consultation for support services, and Home follow-up phone calls (TEACH-HF) from January 2010 ...

purpose: the bust?ni family has an efficient role in the development of contemporary literally advance of lebanon. each member of the family did the best to work on reviving the cultural heritage and arabic civilization and old thoughts and also to teach the young generations of lebanon. bust?nis, as the dynamic heads of the contemporary literature published regularly new boos and translations ...

Programmed Instruction combined with experimenter-provided prompts (physical, verbal, and gesturing) was used to teach pointing with a computer mouse. Three preschoolers who scored at least 1 year below their chronological age levels participated. During the pre-assessment, none of the participants demonstrated pointing. However, they could press and release the mouse button. Programmed Instruc...

The present research assessed potential effects of expecting to teach on learning. In two experiments, participants studied passages either in preparation for a later test or in preparation to teach the passage to another student who would then be tested. In reality, all participants were tested and no one actually engaged in teaching. Participants expecting to teach produced more complete and ...