This article is a comparison of the Natural Approach and Communicative Language Teaching. Using the Richards and Rodgers’ model for conceptualizing approaches and methods described in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, 1986, Cambridge University Press, I compare and contrast these two approaches carefully at the level of approach, design and procedure. At the level of approach, I look...

Purpose – To show that the neo-pragmatist position of Richard Rorty, when combined with a sociocultural perspective, provides library and information science (LIS) with a forceful epistemological tool. Design/methodology/approach – Literature-based conceptual analysis of: historical development of pragmatism in relation to other epistemological positions; neo-pragmatism as a non-dualist, both p...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to survey pediatric dentistry advanced education program directors regarding the teaching of behavior management techniques. METHODS Surveys were mailed to all (65) advanced education programs in the United States. Follow-up mailings were sent to nonrespondents. The survey contained items on program demographics and the program's teaching of communicative...

According to European standards, the promotion of learning more than one foreign language implies a comprehensive reform policies with new objectives, approaches activities and accessible digital teaching/learning platforms. Throughout history, has experienced changes in its evolution from traditional into attractive, creative effective communicative approach-method. Relying on idea that learne...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between leaders' communication styles and charismatic leadership, human-oriented leadership (leader's consideration), task-oriented leadership (leader's initiating structure), and leadership outcomes. METHODOLOGY: A survey was conducted among 279 employees of a governmental organization. The following six main communication sty...

The article examines the agreement of the pre-tonic pitch height (i. e. key) and the pitch height of the tonic syllable (i. e. termination) in the Slovene language. A typical feature of the Slovene pitch movement is its gradual descent. The result is often a difference in pitch betvveen the tone unit initial key and the pitch height of the tonic syllable. The auditory analysis of radio intervie...

objectives: this descriptive study was conducted to determine the communicative abstract problem between elders with alzheimer disease and there caregivers. methods & materials: 100 main caregivers were selected by census. data was obtained by a questionnaire with a good validity and reliability. its reliability was measured by internal consistency (de=0.96) and test-retest (d=0.96) methods. da...

This study explores the potential of utilising certain prosodic qualities of function-specific vocal expressions in order to design effective non-speech user interface sounds. In an empirical setting, utterances with four context-situated communicative functions were produced by 20 participants. Time series of fundamental frequency (F0) and intensity were extracted from the utterances and analy...

The present research aims to investigate the distinction between simple and complex communicative acts in the context of extralinguistic communication. We propose that, within the same pragmatic phenomena studied which are standard communicative acts, deceit and irony a simple communicative act is easier to comprehend than a complex one. Our proposal is based on the different complexity of infe...

Resilience thinkers share an interest in collaborative deliberation with communicative planners, who aim to accommodate different forms of knowledge and styles of reasoning to promote social learning and yield creative and equitable agreements. Members of both fields attended a symposium at Virginia Tech in late 2008, where communicative planners considered how social–ecological resilience info...