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: The authors examined whether meta-pragmatic instruction facilitates the learning of linguistic resources for softening constructive criticism in an instructed language learning context and found that the treatment group received explicit instruction in eight types of criticism modifiers while the control group did not receive any equivalent instruction.

TL;DR: Culture shock tends to be an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad as mentioned in this paper, and it has its own symptoms, cause, and cure, and many missionaries have suffered from it.