For example, one student explained that when he is focusing on communicative aspects, he might forget to ask the most important biomedical questions, e.g. diagnostic questions about bodily functions.
It is significant that the formal textbook, which focuses on communicative English, was tucked away in a locked drawer and instead she and her teachers (both at school and in private tuition) relied on a commercial study guide and crib sheets of grammar exercises and adaptable compositions.
In this review, we have adopted a comparative approach to the origins of cerebral specialization by focusing on communicative behaviors, including language, and manipulative activities.
Section 2 focused on communication activities and consisted of six subsections: (a) Communicative modes, (b) Communicative functions – expressive, (c) Communicative functions – social, (d) Communicative functions – receptive, (e) Communicative effectiveness, and (f) Personal factors.
Yet psychophysical and neuroimaging studies have focused on non-communicative pointing, which implies a two-way relationship between a subject and an object without the involvement of an addressee, and makes such gesture comparable to touching or grasping.
In his research he has focused extensively on communicative challenges and ethical dilemmas in ambulance services, and he has, for many years, worked closely with medical rescue teams and the national ambulance services in Norway.
This is achieved by focusing on seven communicative functions and the grammar structures that support them.
Principles derived from neuroscience research emphasise massing of practice, behavioural relevance of the training, and focusing of communicative actions on the patients' needs and possibilities.
Previous interventions with video feedback have mostly focused on the acquisition of communicative skills using standardised patients (SPs) [ 55].
The authors suggest that participants showed more consistent improvement on standard aphasia measures and clinician judgements of narrative discourse after Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy with focus on communicative needs, compared with the approach offering free choice of communication modalities.
