communicative language
101Linguistic competence — Linguistics …
102Universal pragmatics — Universal pragmatics, more recently placed under the heading of formal pragmatics, is the philosophical study of the necessary conditions for reaching an understanding through communication. The philosopher Jürgen Habermas coined the term in his… …
103Augmentative and alternative communication — An AAC user indicates a series of numbers on an eye gaze communication board in order to convey a word. Augmentative an …
104Critical theory — Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas David Rasmussen HEGEL, MARX AND THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEORY Critical theory1 is a metaphor for a certain kind of theoretical orientation which owes its origin to Hegel and Marx, its systematization to Horkheimer and …
105Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …
106Egalitarian dialogue — is a form of discussion that takes place when different contributions are considered in terms of the validity of the arguments, rather than assessing them according to the power positions of those who advocate them.Principles and… …
107Phonological development — Sound is at the beginning of language learning. Children have to learn to distinguish different sounds and to segment the speech stream they are exposed to into units – eventually meaningful units – in order to acquire words and sentences. So, if …
108Frankfurt School — This article is about the philosophical school. For the business school, see Frankfurt School of Finance Management. Part of a series on the …
109Suggestopedia — is one of the teaching methods developed by Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov based on the study of Suggestology. The method has been used in different fields of studies but mostly in the field of foreign languages learning. Lozanov… …
110Media naturalness theory — was developed by Ned Kock. This theory is sometimes referred to as the psychobiological model[1], or compensatory adaptation theory[2]. It has been used to understand human behavior toward technology in various contexts, such as: education[3],… …
