Early language programs should focus on students communicating ideas in real ways: understanding and communicating meaning – and transferring vocabulary and language skills to convey other ideas.

A startup called Live Mocha, based in Bellevue, WA, aims to harness the power of online social networking to help language students learn and stay motivated. The site, launched in late September at ...

Introduction: Japanese Communication -- 1. The Context of Japanese Communication. 1. Cultural Myth, Self, and Society. 2. Relationality and Communication. 3. Competing Orientations within ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A study released this month by researchers ...

A memorable scene from the first season of Louie shows Louis CK and his male comedy friends playing a game of poker that devolves into a discussion of gay men. Amidst jokes and some homophobia comes ...

Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 32 (2003), pp. 13-40 (28 pages) Using Australian languages as examples, cultural selection is shown to shape linguistic structure through invisible hand processes ...

This month is the Buwan ng Wika to honor the “father” of the national language, Manuel L. Quezon. The debate on shift towards federal form of government which coincides with the Buwan ng Wika, should ...