SELF-PERCEIVED COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS IN BUSINESS ENGLISH
The purpose of this research is to investigate selfperceived communication competence (SPCC) of Economics students in Business English. We conducted a longitudinal study starting with the first year students and repeated with the same sample of students during their second and third year of study. The results of the study indicated that differences in SPCC between the years do exist. The SPCC gradually improved between the first, the second and the third year.
Self‐report as an approach to measuring communication competence
Approaches to measurement of communication competence are reviewed. The self‐report approach to measurement of communication competence is examined. It is concluded that self‐reports have little validity as indicants of competent communicative performances but may serve as useful measures of self‐perceptions which may function as precursors of communicative choices. The Self‐Perceived Communication Competence scale is suggested as a measure which can he used for such purposes.
Early Cretaceous Feathers from Victoria
Unusually well preserved fossil feathers from Lower Cretaceous (VaIanginian-Aptian) claystones at Koonwarra, Victoria, are the oldest (c. 110-125 million years) bird remains yet found in the southern hemisphere, They are among the oldest bird remains known in the world, being antedated only by the toothed Archaeopteryx from the late Jurassic of Bavaria, and being more or less the same age as Gallornis from the Lower Cretaceous of France. The Victorian fossil feathers are evidence for essentially worldwide distribution of birds soon after the beginning of the Cretaceous, if not before. The feathers could conceivably have come from toothed birds.