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Czura, Anna, Ed.; Dooly, Melinda, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This volume is an important output of the ASSESSnet, an EU-funded project that aimed at investigating assessment practices in Virtual Exchange (VE) projects in Foreign Language (FL) courses at tertiary level. It starts with the discussion of selected aspects of VE and assessment design, and a summary of ASSESSnet project results. The following…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Watson, Lucy – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The 'Global Student Collective' is a telecollaboration project on the International Foundation Year (IFY) programme at the University of Southampton. IFY students were connected with volunteers in Brazil, India, Hungary, and Italy online in order to find out more about their countries. The project required the students to exercise multiple…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
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Becerra, Nelson, Ed.; Biasini, Rosalba, Ed.; Magedera-Hofhansl, Hanna, Ed.; Reimão, Ana, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The present volume collects papers from InnoConf18 [Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University Conference], which took place at the University of Liverpool in June 2018. The theme of the conference was "New trends in language teaching and learning at university." The contributions collected here aim to reflect on best…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Universities
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Kim, Hyun Jung – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
Human raters are normally involved in L2 performance assessment; as a result, rater behavior has been widely investigated to reduce rater effects on test scores and to provide validity arguments. Yet raters' cognition and use of rubrics in their actual rating have rarely been explored qualitatively in L2 speaking assessments. In this study three…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Evaluators, Second Language Learning
Jassey, William – Curriculum Review, 1977
This is account of a foreign language curriculum developed by the Norwalk Public School System in Connecticut. It emphasizes bilingual interchanges between students of various ethnic backgrounds and a classroom setting that uses tape equipment to personalize basic linguistic concepts. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Electronic Classrooms, Language Instruction, Language Laboratories
Cenoz, Jasone; Lindsay, Diana – 1994
A project introducing English as a third language in 30 elementary schools in the Basque Country (Spain) is described. The program, emerging from a national curriculum reform effort, begins English instruction when students are eight years old, three years earlier than previously. Students are already bilingual in Spanish and Basque, both official…
Descriptors: Basque, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), FLES
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1992
The final report chronicles activities for the two years of a grant to develop an intermediate-level test of Russian language proficiency based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines. The resulting test is designed to determine proficiency levels of students with two or more years of high school…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Program Descriptions
Mayer, Lenore – Teaching Adults, 1976
Six-day residential intensive language courses in German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, sponsored by the City Lit language department and Wansfell college, were extremely successful due to careful planning in site selection, various learning activities, and courses structure. (Author/BP)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Intensive Language Courses, Language Instruction
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Huebner, Thomas G. – Educational Perspectives, 1983
Examines three myths about bilingual education and issues related to them. Topic areas include: types of bilingual education; maintenance, enrichment, and transitional programs; language choice in the bilingual classroom; second language development; and criteria for mainstreaming, the goals of bilingual education, and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
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Paulus, Linda – Hispania, 1998
An oral testing method used in an intensive high school Spanish program is based on a model of communicative competence positing four forms of competence: strategic; sociolinguistic; discourse; and linguistic. All oral domains but linguistic are tested in the first and second years. In the first year, benchmark testing occurs. The rubric used has…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), High Schools, Language Tests, Oral Language
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Wharton, Sue – ELT Journal, 1998
Describes the language-testing component of the Aston University (England) preservice teacher-training course, outlining the activities used, examining how they enable the teacher to address target content, and explaining how they form part of a broader approach to teacher education. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Teachers
Ihde, Thomas W., Ed.; Stenson, Nancy, Ed. – Journal of Celtic Language Learning, 1996
The journal for teachers of Celtic languages in the United States and Canada contains six articles. "Motivation and Gender: A Welsh Case Study" (Christine M. Jones) examines data on characteristics of one group of students of Welsh, focusing on gender-related motivational differences. "Morphological Objects" (Annette…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational History
Language Association Bulletin, 1991
The five numbers of this journal for foreign language teachers include these articles: "Articulation: Beyond the Syllabus"; "Total Immersion in French at the Elementary School Level: An Observer's Report"; "'Columbus Countdown 1992' Announces a Cultural Project in New York City"; "Revising the Scope and Content…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Bilingual Education, Book Reviews, Class Activities
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Tumanov, Alexander – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1983
Integration of extracurricular activities into the second language curriculum is supported in the context of culturally oriented communicative second language teaching. After methodological approaches in the literature are analyzed, various extracurricular program provided at the University of Toronto are described. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Context, Extracurricular Activities
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Darkatsh, Manuel – Reading Improvement, 1975
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Language Instruction
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