... those countries and enhance their awareness of other culture 13 - Textbooks promoting cultural awareness and competence that explicitly raise cultural awareness and cultivate cross- cultural competence ... peoples and cultures; developing students positive feelings and attitudes towards those countries, peoples and cultures and, by doing so, fostering students love and respect of their own language and ... to: - Conduct a cross- cultural analysis of the textbook - Suggest supplementary activities for Grade 10 students cross- cultural awareness RESEARCH QUESTIONS The concept of cross- cultural analysis...
... awareness of one’s own cultural worldview; attitude towards cultural differences; knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews and crosscultural skills” Developing cultural competence ... work effectively in cross- cultural situations” On the other hand, cultural competence is the ability to understand behavior from the standpoint of the members of a culture and to behave in a ... thinking, belief systems, and world views of people from various cultural backgrounds and thus enhances empathy and mutual understanding Investigating issues concerning crosscultural communication...
... II: A cross- cultural study of giving and responding to compliments in English and Vietnamese equivalents Chapter III: Some suggestion for gving and responding to compliments in English and Vietnamese ... study - This research focuses on the cross - cultural study to find out the similarities and differences between the English and Vietnamese in the ways they give and respond to compliments Determined ... 1.2 Cultural communication 1.2.1 Notion of culture 1.2.1.1 Cross- cultural communication 1.3 Positive – negative politeness Chapter II: A cross- cultural...
... metaphor and simile are used in English and Vietnamese idioms and to make some comparisons between English idioms and Vietnamese ones In order to obtain these aims, data and sources are collected and ... the learners and readers to improve their knowledge of English and Vietnamese idioms, especially comparative idioms and help them understand the cultural characteristic of English and Vietnamese ... our society’s customs and traditions such as interpersonal psychology, common experiences, moral precepts, and conduct and etiquette of politeness It seems that idioms and proverbs to some extent...
... Attitudes and Social Representations and of Psychology of Communication and new media at the Faculty of Medicine andPsychology Sapienza University, Rome European Ph.D on Social Representations and ... students and judge them as smarter Attractive adults get paid more for their work and have better success in dating and mating And juries are less likely to find attractive people guilty and recommend ... mass-media and the star/fame modern cultural system (and its association with sexy) This view and preoccupations with the explanatory level is endorsed by those Female participants and students...
... tacit, and systemic and involves dissimilar cultural contexts (p 204) Table 1: Cross- cultural Implications – Asian (China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan) and the West Cross- culture ... figure it out Table 2: Cross- cultural Implications – India and the West Western Non-Western Christianity concerned with absolute moral values, differences between good and evil, and redemption of ... learned about cross- cultural issues was trial and error, and error, and error The writer hopes that sharing some of my experiences will help you avoid some of the same problems and make you more...
... Vietnamese and American Specially, the assignment will compare and contrast the two conception in order to find the misunderstanding andcultural conflicts Thus, people from the two cultural can ... linguistic andcultural backgrounds The communication needs to be as constructive as possible, without misunderstandings and breakdowns In this assigment, the aims are discussed in the issues of intercultural ... attitudes and values Cultural refers to the informal and often hidden patterns of human interactions, expressions and viewpoints that people in one culture share The hidden nature of cultural...
... to carry out a cross- cultural adaptation of the ChildOIDP index and to assess its reliability and validity for application among Brazilian children between the ages of eleven and fourteen Methods ... design and ethical considerations The methodology emphasises the cross- cultural adaptation of the Child-OIDP and its psychometric testing for test-retest reliability, internal consistency and construct ... pediatric dentists, and one specialist in Health Policy and Administration Collectively, this team compiled a single version of ChildOIDP This version was assessed for understanding and to adjust the...
... consent and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee Baseline and annual X-rays were provided and assessed by a centralised procedure (Pr C Roux, Cochin Hospital, France) The prevalent and ... its first version had 168 questions and the Osteoporosis Functional Disability questionnaire (OFDQ) [4] focused mainly on pain and handicap rather than QoL and was not generated using patient ... (M0) and then every six months using the SF-36 and QUALIOST® The 12 countries of the SOTI trial were Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland...
... conceptualized and designed the study, acquired, analyzed and interpreted the data, and revised the manuscript YZ and ZH conceptualized and designed the study, acquired the data, and revised the ... chronic health conditions on parent HRQOL and family functioning across countries In the process of cross- cultural adaptation, the recruitment of translators and specialists in the multidisciplinary ... conceptualized and designed the study, acquired, analyzed and interpreted the data, and drafted the manuscript YH conceptualized and designed the study, supervised the data analysis and revised...
... prevalence and caries experience (dmft) in 5-year-olds in 2004 [4] were 70% and 3.7, and in 6-year-olds in 1988 [5] were 84% and 4.4, respectively At age years, restorative treatment needs was 69 % and ... the final-translation was fully comprehensible and to verify the cross- cultural equivalence of the source and final version In addition, the face and content validity of the scale were examined ... as increasing demand for treatment and long waiting lists [3] In Turkey, most studies have focused on the risk factors for early childhood caries and its behavioral, clinical and microbiological...
... cultures, thus helping eliminate ethnic stereotypes and misunderstandings Problems arise as language learners are not competent and fail to understand the cultural- social aspects of communication Take ... including speech act theory, politeness strategies, pragmatics and cross- cultural pragmatics, and categories of inviting forms in English and Vietnamese Chapter 3: Methodology, this chapter focuses ... speech acts (4) pragmatics and cross- cultural pragmatics, (5) categories of inviting in English and Vietnamese The first part deals with literature on politeness strategies and their relations with...
... apologies and the use of the structures and strategies of apologies in terms of politeness, speech acts andcrosscultural perspective This is necessary in order to find out the similarities and differences ... friends and friends, professor and students, boss and employee, parents and children There are situations in this part and they are equivalent to strategies Strategy includes situation and 4; ... harmony between the speaker and the hearer." Both definitions of Brown and Levison and Leech are convenient and acceptable, because each one describes this process and captured this phenomenon...
... putatively garner international policy and financial attention [30] Cross- cultural constructs are assumed to have commonalities across cultural groups and settings Cross- cultural studies explore Page ... especially in cross- cultural context The definition, determination, terminology, and interpretation of validity vary by discipline, available resources, and type of problem studied Cross- cultural ... assume there is a shared meaning across cultures While some epidemiologists would primarily focus on the presence or absence of a symptom across cultural groups, a crosscultural investigator would...
... article as: Foster Page et al.: Performance and cross- cultural comparison of the short-form version of the CPQ11-14 in New Zealand, Brunei and Brazil Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:40 ... artefact, and if another Brazilian community was sampled, a different mean CPQ score could occur, as is the case in New Zealand This variation within and between countries makes cross- cultural ... communities and cultures with diverse caries experience, and to compare the subjective oral health of these different communities Method Data from studies of children in New Zealand (Northland and Otago),...
... in Vietnamese and American languages and cultures from cross – cultural perspective In fact, what to say to give a gift, and how to respond to a gift offer are culture – specific and depend very ... Understanding differences between the target culture and the learners’ culture The teacher must help the learners understand more about the cultural values via its language and be aware of cultural ... Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different? Journal of pragmatics II, North Holland Blum – Kulla, S (1989) Investigating cross – cultural pragmatics: An introductory overview Cross – cultural...
... historical andcultural backgrounds, as well as their approach to life and their ways of living and thinking People use language to communicate and express their thoughts to each others easier and faster ... follows: Communication Intra -cultural Inter -cultural Cross- cultural communication communication communication Diagram 1: Branches of communication 17 1.2.2 Cross- cultural Communication This study ... expressing confirming and negating in American English and Vietnamese? ii What are the similarities and differences in American and Vietnamese verbal expressions of confirmation and negation? Scope...
... communication and communicative language teaching/learning Cross- cultural interactants and language learners should be aware of cross- cultural differences in the use of silence/pauses and TFs for ... people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communication across cultures The study of cross- cultural communication ... modes "High" and "low" are therefore less relevant as a description of a whole people, and more useful to describe and understand particular situations and environments 1.2.2 High and low context...
... uncertainty and promoting awareness of cross- cultural differences in English and Vietnamese culture 10 Aims of the study The aims of the study are; - To explore the popularity of redundant and economical ... clarify the similarities and differences in the way Vietnamese and English – speaking people request in their own language and culture - To contribute to promoting cross- cultural awareness among ... foreigners In addition, the study is expected to be useful and accessible to all teachers, learners and researchers as a material and reference of crosscultural communication 11 Scope of the study This...