Although language is an effective vehicle for communication, it is unclear how linguistic and communicative abilities relate to each other. Some researchers have argued that communicative message generation involves perspective taking (mentalizing), and-crucially-that mentalizing depends on language. We employed a verbal communication paradigm to directly test whether the generation of a commun...

Background: Quality of education plays a key role in the development of education. Having this perspective in mind the researchers explored the quality of ESP courses from ESP instructors point of views and investigated the role of quality of education of ESP courses in information-seeking behavior of the students. They also probed the possible relationship between EFL instructors reflective pr...

The objective of this study is to evaluate language outcome in pre-term children, considering multiple factors. The hypothesis is that early communicative capacity (pre-verbal communicative utterances) is affected mainly by biological (prematurity, birth weight, and gender) and social factors (maternal education), while more advanced linguistic abilities (i.e., combinatorial and syntactic abili...

Despite some skeptics, most foreign language teachers, especially those of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)/English Second (ESL), advocate Communicative Teaching (CLT) and have long been conducting student-centered communicative activities in their classrooms. This paper argues that CLT is generally ineffective teaching quiet students with little motivation. In the context Malay language, it...

Children start to communicate and use language in social interactions from a very young age. This allows them experiment with their developing linguistic knowledge receive valuable feedback – often more knowledgeable interlocutors. While research acquisition has focused great deal on children's ability learn the input or cues, little work, comparison, investigated nature role of Communicative F...

Intercultural communicative competence plays an important role in the development of students' language and communication skills. This article examines cultural characteristics intercultural study English language. is a new "borderline" subject closely related to teaching higher education institutions. Thus, proper use linguistic skills essential part

Young people’s interaction online is rapidly increasing, which enables new spaces for communication; the impact on learning, however, is not yet acknowledged in education. The aim of this exploratory case study is to scrutinize how students frame their interaction in social networking sites (SNS) in school practices and what that implies for educational language teaching and learning practices....

It is believed that the communicative language teaching approach (abbreviated as CLTA) is one of the most effective methods to keep away from the weaknesses of the traditional English teaching method in developing students’ communicative ability. Using games, which is communicative in essence, are often considered effective in developing students’ communicative ability. In order to help English...