Volume 55
Needs Analysis: Dental English for Japanese Dental Students
Japan continues to rank low in English proficiency tests specially in the academic field. Dental English, also offered as Medical English in some dental schools, is an English course specializing in medical and dental terminologies, dental practice and the development of communication skills and it was introduced into the Japanese dental curriculum in the 1990’s.
Performance of Iranian EFL Learners on Compliment Response Speech Acts in English
Intercultural communication presents many challenges, one of which refers to the need to create awareness about the importance of understanding speech acts crossculturally. “A speech act is an utterance that performs a locutionary and an illocutionary meaning in communication. For example, ‘I like your dress’ is a speech act concerning a proposition about a person’s dress with the illocutionary force of a compliment†(Ellis, 1994, p.724).
