In " Writing and Writing Patterns," M^5 Marion Richardson has made a very valuab'e contribution to the art of teaching. Apart fro*11 setting forth an excellent method of teaching handwriting, these little books must help ^ child who uses them to develop an appreciatiojj of rhythm and beauty. One hopes they ^ inspire creative effort and that they shall not used merely as copy books. The examples...

The aim of the article is to determine effectiveness various international tools designed develop students’ English-language communicative competencies. Several scientific methods were used: observation, testing, experimental training etc. Statistical processing data obtained during pedagogical experiment was carried out, visualization with use graphic method applied. description and verbal rec...

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and methodological justification of textbook entitled "Comment rédiger un essai en droit", which aimed at mastering skills French scientific academic discourse by law students senior stages their university studies. The reveals subject-functional personal-significant potentials textbook, offers a detailed list formed discursive competence components. It ...

adopting a humanistic, communicative-based approach to semiotics, this paper aims at investigating the status of linguistic signs and their interaction with other communicative signs. the status of linguistic sign is first studied in semiotic theories spanning ancient, middle ages and modern era. based on the commonalities envisaged in four contemporary semiotic theories done in the spirit of t...

In this work we present a typology of eye closing behaviours based on a semantic taxonomy of communicative signals. The types of eye closing we investigate are blinks, eye-closures and winks performed during political debates. While other studies in the literature attempt to classify blinks and eye-closures according to their duration or (in)completeness of the closure, our study aims to distin...

We outline some components of a mentalist theory of human communicative competence. Communication in our species is an intentional and overt type of social interaction, based on each agent's capability of entertaining shared mental states and of acting so as to make certain mental states shared with the other. Communicative meaning is a matter of ascription: it is not an intrinsic property of a...

Quantitative measures of vocabulary use have added much to our understanding first and second language writing development. This paper argues for register appropriateness as a useful addition these tools. Developing an idea proposed by Durrant Brenchley (2019), it explores what such can tell us about development in the L1 school children England critically examines how results should be interpr...

Information graphics, such as bar charts and line graphs, generally have a communicative message that they are intended to convey when they appear in popular media. The communicative signals present or absent in the graphic help convey these underlying intended messages. We have designed a Bayesian system that automatically extracts communicative signals from a grouped bar chart information gra...