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Schaffner, Sabina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper discusses the potential of language centres in higher education as laboratories for innovation. Despite their hybrid character as central service providers that are also defined by their teaching, their positioning at the academic periphery, and the lack of a mandate to do academic research, language centres still have an obligation to…
Descriptors: Language Laboratories, Resource Centers, Higher Education, Research
Chateau, Anne; Molle, Nicolas – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
The UFR Lansad (Language centre teaching languages to specialists of other disciplines) was created in 2014 at the University of Lorraine. The process leading to its creation was led by a small number of teachers and researchers, from the pre-existing teams of the previous Lorraine universities (Molle et al. 2019). It is the result of didactic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study, Personal Autonomy
Szczuka-Dorna, Liliana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The XXVth Anniversary of CercleS brings back memories not only of the CercleS Association and its development, but also of the role of Language Centres in European universities. This article presents the Centre of Languages and Communication (CLC) at Poznan University of Technology (PUT) in Poland. It focuses on the main challenges the CLC has…
Descriptors: Language Laboratories, Educational History, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kohonen, Susanna; Kosonen, Jonna; Kettunen, Sinikka – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This report will discuss the process of evaluation for development in a collaborative project that integrated teaching between the Language Centre and the Law School at the University of Eastern Finland. The focus of this report will be on a model the authors devised for the purposes of developing teaching, called "E.A.S.Y,"…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education
Giering, Judith A.; Fitzgerald, Hope – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2019
In 2015, language faculty and administrators at the University of Virginia met to evaluate the needs of the more than 20 language programs offered on campus. A priority emerged for language-learning space better equipped to facilitate authentic interaction and communication. The committee conceived of an alternative language-learning space that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Activities, Cooperative Learning
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
This article proposes a model for integrating text-to-speech software (TTS) in students' interpreting training and practice. It shows the aims of the model, the definition of TTS, the advantages of using TTS, how to search for TTS, instructional stages with TTS, and the interpreting instructor's role. The students can use TTS software online;…
Descriptors: Translation, Speech Communication, Audio Equipment, North American English
Kunschak, Claudia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
An increasingly interconnected world requires people to become versatile communicators in a variety of different settings. Language centers have a critical role to play in this process by offering language and culture training in multiple languages to students, professionals and the wider community alike. They may do so from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Harvey, Julia; Owen, David; Palumbo, Giuseppe – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The Translation Focus Group (TFG) within CercleS has paid particular attention to issues concerning the production of multilingual institutional texts within the context of European higher education, specifically in order to enhance the quality and effectiveness of terminology and style in ways that ensure the availability of the best possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingual Materials, Instructional Materials, Translation
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
This article proposes a model for teaching interpreting for tourism purposes. It shows the aims of the model, interpreting materials, training strategies, training environment and assessment techniques. The model aims to train students to interpret in English with or without prior preparation or knowledge of the topic and without taking or reading…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Tourism, Multimedia Instruction
Kühn, Bärbel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Democratic principles and human rights, the core values of the Council of Europe, informed the development of the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" (CEFR; Council of Europe 2001. "Common European framework of reference for languages: Learning, teaching, assessment." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Portfolios (Background Materials), Guidelines