This article reviews the scientific literature on the enhancement of healthy aging in older adults through active participation in the arts. Methodologies and conclusions are described for studies of dance, expressive writing, music (singing and instrumental), theatre arts, and visual arts including documentation of mental/physical improvements in memory, creativity, problem solving, everyday c...

The present Study aimed to examine the efficacy of using literary texts in promoting intercultural communication competence, and intercultural awareness and understanding within language teaching contexts. The participants were 50 Iranian undergraduate students of English Literature, 20 male and 30 female, with their ages ranging from 19 to 24 engaged in reading and discussing literary texts wi...

This research compares French as a foreign language teachers’ representations with those held by their prior teachers, about the importance to be attributed some communicative skills (listening and speaking, reading writing) linguistic competences (grammar, vocabulary sociocultural competence). Methodologically, mixed method was adopted. On one hand, 142 FLE teachers from various States of Mexi...

Cultural encounters were used in a senior-level undergraduate nutrition capstone course to enhance students’ cultural competence attitudes and skills. The included service-learning component for which students met weekly with international who enrolled an intensive English language program as conversation partners. content structure focused on Campinha-Bacote’s model. model includes 5 construct...

Development of competence has been one of the major issues and goals of modern academic design and engineering education. Nevertheless, our literature study revealed that we are still far from a common interpretation of design competence. There are different views on it which we called reductionist and holistic. In the reductionist view, design competence is considered to be not else than a set...