this study investigated the effect of oral dialogue journals on communicative competence of iranian efl learners. participants of this study were 80 students of two payam-e-noor universities who were proved to be homogenous in the communicative competence based on tse (test of spoken english) interview. the participants of one of these universities were considered as the experimental group. the...

The article argues that the conceptual basis for training of future teachers foreign languages forpedagogical cooperation is formation communicative-linguistic competence, which a leading component themodern scientific paradigm in Ukrainian and world university education. Overcoming contradictions between thetraditional system teaching language with modern cultural approaches to theteaching tea...

Gestural communication is a modality considered in the literature as a candidate for determining the ancestral prerequisites of the emergence of human language. As reported in captive chimpanzees and human children, a study in captive baboons revealed that a communicative gesture elicits stronger degree of right-hand bias than non-communicative actions. It remains unclear if it is the communica...


 Some features of the communicative approach, such as use authentic learning materials, emphasis on significance (meaning) rather than form (form) language, and interaction in process students are still relevant to purpose mastering Arabic overall a tool communicate. However, world teaching general has developed several alternative approaches, which one them is constructivist cognitive ap...

This paper briefly outlines observa.tions fi'om texts made with respect to rhetorical relations and communicative goals. Then it will be shown how these ol)servations have been encoded into knowledge resources which are part of an integrated architecture for the gelmration of multimedia output. Both communicative goals and rhetorical relations are virtual constructs surface signals hint at thei...

The field of English as a foreign language (EFL) strives to promote students' proficiency by equipping them with proper grammatical and lexical skills. However, EFL textbooks often neglect the teaching pragmatics which can lead cross-cultural communication failures for learners. learners struggle traditional approaches that prioritize development over pragmatic This paper aims address this gap ...

Recent work suggests that variation in online language production reflects the fact that speech is information-theoretically efficient for communication. We apply this idea to studying the offline, structural properties of language, asking whether lexical properties may similarly reflect communicative pressures. We present evidence for the Communicative Lexicon Hypothesis (CLH): human lexical s...