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The present article focuses on the use of critical thinking skills and techniques during a Business English class on the topic of problem-solving. I included four activities to which students were asked to apply critical thinking skills such as: analysis, interpretation, inference, explanation and evaluation. Students' positive feedback to the practice of critical thinking principles, as well as their active participation in that lesson, add to the other advantages of such a practical approach: a better understanding of the problem solving concept and an increased ability to solve business problems.
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The aim of this article is to offer readers an overview on how linguistic skills can be improved through a non-formal way of learning called Family Learning (FL). We discuss and establish what is commonly understood by FL throughout Europe and present methods and examples of FL practitioners that have managed to improve the linguistic skills of their target groups. Family Learning generically means an informal method of learning born from work undertaken in the voluntary sector and spread by Family Literacy programmes in the USA. The focus of FL is to value learning that takes place within the home and from the family. FL course provision shares strategies to make the home an effective place for learning and to support the learning ambitions of both adults and children.
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This article aims to analyse gendered instances of violence, as they are described in a number of novels written in English by authors of South-Asian origin, among which Shame, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, or The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Institutional violence against women includes rape, sutee/sati (the ritual of self-immolation of Hindu women at the death of their husbands), wearing the Islamic symbol of burqa, or keeping women in purdah (Muslim women’s confinement to the private sphere). In the case of men, the best known is male circumcision for Muslims or the male sterilisation campaign in the Emergency period in India. The trans-gendered body is also explored, with an emphasis on the hijras in India, men who undergo a castration ceremony in order to become guardians of women or artists.
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The study is part of a larger investigation on extreme right policies in Europe, achieved within the framework of the European Laboratory of Social Psychology, with the aim of understanding why it is we are witnessing the revival of the extreme right in some European countries. The investigation is defined by two analytical axes: the motivations of the adherence and the political route of the members of the party; and the social representations and practices of the supporters and the common knowledge concerning the right policy. A sample of subjects (supporters and militants of the right wing) have participated in an interview, and the data was processed through a categorial-frequencial "hand-made" analysis of the content which permitted to realize an "a posteriori" system of categories, on which the presentation and discussion are based.
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During the past decades the study of intercultural communication has received much more interest and attention than ever before, although it is as old as civilization; the ease of travel, the development of international trade as well as of multinational organizations – in other words globalization – have made people aware of the fact that they must communicate and cooperate with other people different from themselves in order to succeed and, sometimes, even to survive. Effective communication in a different context is felt as being important especially in business, because of the competition existing among companies all over the world; at the same time, intercultural communication is very complex, because of the existence of intermingling distinguishing characteristics. That is why well trained professionals, able to function correctly in different environments are required in practically every field of activity; having to face international competition no company can concentrate only on domestic activities /markets. In business of any kind, cultural incompetence can jeopardize lots of money through wasted negotiations, lost purchases/ sales or contracts and poor customer relations. It is said that "cultural risk is just as real as political risk in international business arena". Nowadays, even if a person does not leave his/ her own home country to work abroad, it is almost sure that he/ she will meet or work with men/ women coming from other countries; even the students may share classes with colleagues from different nations and some intercultural training, as well as the experience they will get learning to communicate internationally will be beneficial to them.
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