Developing Effective Communication in Health and Social Care settings Communication is very important in any health and social setting because doctors‚ nurses‚ carers and teachers need to communicate with patients and service users as professionally and as effective as possible. This helps to give the service user the highest quality of care. CONTEXTS TO COMMUNICATION One-to-one Communication When conversing with an individual one-to-one‚ it is important to be relaxed‚ polite and try to create
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/15/london-school-bans-pupils-slang-innit London school bans pupils from using ‘innit’‚ ‘like’‚ and ‘bare’ A list of slang words and phrases have been banned as part of a new initiative at a school in south London. Given the chance‚ which slang words or phrases would you put a stop to? Carmen Fishwick theguardian.com‚ Tuesday 15 October 2013 15.47 BST Staff at Harris Academy Upper Norwood hope to improve awareness of formal language by banning a list
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language is used. It is proposed that carefully designed language activities be carried out by instructors in order to impart sociolinguistic skills to learners. The importance of universal intelligibility should be stressed‚ as opposed to native accent. Furthermore students should also be taught proper contextual use of English‚ in accordance to cultural reference and cultural appropriacy should be part of the learners ’ core
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Test 1 Chapters 1-4 INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMM 1502 Alexandra MacMurdo May 14‚ 2013 Chapter 1 1. Why is it important to think beyond ourselves as individuals in intercultural interactions? It is important to think beyond ourselves as individuals in intercultural interactions because the world is a melting pot filled with many people of different cultures living amongst other cultures. This makes intercultural communication inevitable to everyone. Additionally‚ having
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How Ghanaian is Ghanaian English? A preliminary study from the perspective of a phonetician INTRODUCTION Background to the study English language came to Ghana around the second half of the 15th Century through a group of English merchants who arrived in the Guinea coast to trade in gold dust and spices (Sey‚ 1973). According to Sey‚ by the 18th Century‚ British have attempted to establish schools in the Gold Coast. In 1788‚ a school for twelve children was established in Cape Coast whilst around
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English as a Global Language The phenomenal rise in use of English has mainly taken place over the last two decades. English has reached high status world-wide because of several factors; as the mother tongue of millions of people all over the world‚ as the language that millions of children learn at school and the language that is used in international relations‚ for global communication and as the major media language. The importance of a global language has become major‚ in some contexts
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competence in English as an international language pedagogy. The Asian EFL Journal Quarterly‚ 9(4)‚ 39-53. Achebe‚ C. (1975). Morning yet in creation day. New York: Doubleday. Bezooijen‚ R. V. (2002). Aesthetic evaluation of Dutch: Comparison across dialects‚ accents and languages. In D. Boriboon‚ P. (2008). Cultural voices and representations in EFL materials design‚ pedagogy‚ and research. Boriboon‚ P. (2011). Language‚ ideology and domination: Problems of English language teaching in Thailand and solutions
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Language) Jump to: navigation‚ search English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands. Initially‚ Old English was a diverse group of dialects‚ reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. One of these dialects‚ Late West Saxon‚ eventually came to dominate. The English language underwent extensive change in the Middle Ages.
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or a dialect of the English language African-American children are being penalized for speaking
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2004:79). But according to McArthur (2002:45)‚ this term in itself is tautologious and somehow misleading for it could be interpreted in many ways and shows only broad sense of the language that is spoken in Britain because there are many variations‚ dialects‚ and usages of this language. Similarly to the British English‚ American English is a term that describes a language that is spoken in the United States of America (Peters 2004:34). It is also a broad term and shows the collection of words‚ pronunciation
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