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Practising negotiation of meaning

The following exercise tests your ability to interact and negotiate meaning through English as a lingua franca. Try to explain one of the three everyday actions shown below. However, you …

Do you want to take your learning further?

We hope you are enjoying the course and that the topics covered have inspired you to learn more about communication with diverse audiences. A good understanding of written and spoken …

Face: an example

This short animation provides an example of a scenario where face is threatened. Here, the way in which the teacher gives feedback to the student could be interpreted as a …