Intercultural Communication: Teaching Vocabulary

TL;DR: The future of language in China is under threat, according to experts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of Indian cultural appropriation in the U.S. legal system and evaluate these claims vis-a-vis prevailing legal doctrine and offer a normative view of solutions.

TL;DR: The authors describes the development of linguistic ethnography in Britain over the last 5-15 years, and the U.K. Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) has emerged from socio-and applied linguistics, bringing together a number of formative traditions (inter alia, Interactional Sociolinguistics, New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis).

TL;DR: This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe the factors they need to consider when they create frequency-based word lists and provides very practical guidelines for making word lists for language teaching and testing.

TL;DR: Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's (1961) values orientation theory as discussed by the authors proposes that all human societies must answer a limited number of universal problems, that the valuebased solutions are limited in number and universally known, but that different cultures have different preferences among them.

TL;DR: The authors presented a list of the highest frequency collocations of spoken English based on carefully applied criteria and found that a large number of collocations meeting the six criteria would qualify for inclusion in the most frequent 2,000 words of English, if no distinction was made between single words and collocations.