Business English, as we know it today, is a part of the field English for Specific Purposes, having two distinct areas: General Purposes and Purposes. Both these areas are facing rapid growth, with an increasing demand teaching materials improvement. Nowadays teachers face challenge developing not only general speech habits their students but also rhetoric skills in order negotiations to be eff...

The development of the Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale (CPYDS) is outlined in this paper. The CPYDS assesses 15 aspects of positive youth development, including bonding, resilience, social competence, emotional competence, cognitive competence, moral competence, behavioral competence, self-determination, self-efficacy, spirituality, positive view of the future, positive self-identity, ...

Minimalism in grammatical theorizing (Chomsky in The minimalist program. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995) led to simpler linguistic devices and a better focalization of the core properties of the structure building engine: a lexicon and a free (recursive) phrase formation operation, dubbed Merge, are the basic components that serve in building syntactic structures. Here I suggest that by looking at ...

The constant changes in social, economic and political scenario have required tightly response time from organizations and ability to reconfigure its resources to remain competitive. In this context, this article aims at presenting a recommendation mechanism for a competence model to improve the competence gaps analysis and identify the better Development Plan for Employees (DPE), which consist...

The strategic direction of secondary education is a reorientation to forming students’ key competencies, which are the basis harmonious personality development. problem teaching English attracts special attention scientists because mentioned language an effective means international communication in today’s multilingual world. Therefore, this paper states difficulty implementing modern competen...

In higher education the focus is changing towards development of professional competence of students: Students learn to apply knowledge in professional situations. Their results and competence development must be measured and assessed, just as in professional life. Characteristic of these professional situations is innovation with ICT as integral part. The associated educational concept is know...

grammaticalization provides a framework to study the genesis and development of grammatical forms in language. in this framework, it is argued that new grammatical forms are constantly developed from lexical items and the already formed grammatical items may go out of use. in spite of some counterexamples, this is often seen as a unidirectional and cyclic process. in this article the concepts o...

Moral competence refers to the affective orientation to perform altruistic behaviors and the ability to judge moral issues logically. A five-stage theory of moral development is proposed. Both western and Chinese perspectives are incorporated in the elaboration of the characteristics of each stage. A brief review of the antecedents of moral competence is presented. The relationship between mora...

The competence-exploiting subsidiaries of MNEs extend and adapt for local conditions competencies that were previously developed by their parent companies. In contrast, competence-creating subsidiaries broaden the profiles of competence of their corporate groups. Competence-creating subsidiaries are likelier to source knowledge from their own local environment. We distinguish between ‘sticky’ t...