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Recent changes to national curricula for language teaching within Europe have raised the development of intercultural competence, and, beyond that, cross-cultural understanding, to the status of a ...
This study investigates compliment responses among Iraqi postgraduates in English. The data is collected through the use of written discourse completion tasks (DCT), with four situational settings. A ...
The present study explored whether competence beliefs and intrinsic motivation for different school domains show reciprocal effects over time. A sample of N = 670 German elementary school ...
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Many natural decisions contain an element of skill. Modern conceptions of the skill component include control (Goodie, 2003) and competence (Heath & Tversky, 1991). The control hypothesis ...
Our previous research suggests that people reporting a stronger desire to maximize obtain worse life outcomes (Bruine de Bruin et al., 2007). Here, we examine whether this finding may be ...
According to Siegrist, Earle and Gutscher’s (2003) model of risk communication, the effect of advice about risk on an agent’s behavior depends on the agent’s trust in the ...
During the last decade the issue of competence has been received with enthusiasm as well critical stance among researchers and practitioners. The ongoing debate has resulted in new notions of ...
The article proposes a methodological tool for describing the topic structure of texts and their potential intercultural variation. After positioning topic structures within the field of ...
In the following paper I would like to look at the speech act of promising in an intercultural perspective. Indeed, my personal intercultural experience in West Africa has seemed to challenge the ...


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