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The use of acronyms in nursing English: implications for the development of communicative competence
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
This paper analyzes the use of acronyms in nursing English, and its implications for the development of the communicative competence of the speakers of this special language. The starting assumption is that profuse use of ...
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Intercultural communicative competence: a step beyond communicative competence
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
The concept of "communicative competence", first proposed by Hymes, referred basically to abilities speakers have in their first language. This term, however, was appropriated and reworked (Canale & Swain 1980; van Ek 1986) ...