June 2013

Cross-cultural communication barriers between staff in overseas-funded enterprises and management strategies for overcoming them

The issue of staff management in overseas-funded enterprises is a serious challenge faced by every manager. Because of different personnel management system, different organizational system and different supervision system, lots of troubles have emerged in these enterprises. In view of this, a sound overseas-funded enterprise should build up an effective system to promote healthy development, such as language...

Author(s): Yajun Xie

June 2013

Culture knowledge and its availability in language teaching and learning in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts

  It is a platitude that language teaching is nothing but teaching culture. This study is also another evidence for this saying. In other words, the aim of this study is, in fact, to highlight the role of teaching foreign language culture in language learning and teaching. To achieve this aim, two questionnaires were distributed among the students and teachers who participated in the study in Shiraz, Iran. The...

Author(s): Kamal Heidari Soureshjani