The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
As a result of globalization, higher education institutions throughout the world are adopting English for parts of their education. Higher education is becoming increasingly international and thus linguistically diverse, for educational, idealistic and financial reasons. This book presents a much-needed description of English as a lingua franca (ELF) from an international university setting and focuses on form and pragmatic issues, using authentic spoken data. It provides useful insights into how communicative effectiveness can be achieved in spoken lingua franca communication.
Globalization is a process whereby economic, political, social,and cultural differences are lessened by greater interaction across national boundaries. Greater international interaction in the past several decades has been due to a variety of factors that, on the whole, can be seen as eliminating the barriers of distance. The current wave of globalization, occurring from the second half of the twentieth century to today, is considered to be the most extensive in history, though notable globalization has occurred during other periods. The speed and scope of this most recent wave of globalization has led to much debate about the effects of rapid change.
The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
English For International Tourism Intermediate - Peter StruttThe three-level course designed for interesting persons oneself professionally the tourism and hugs the students of touristic and the hotel the managements schools following questions: work in the office of the trip, management the tourism, the reports with customers, piloting the trips, business trips. The course lies down the special pressure on the unreeling the efficiency of telling and writing which are indispensable executing the contest tied with tourism.
