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From Multilingualism to Plurilingualism: University Students' Beliefs about Language Learning in a Monolingual Context
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Jeoffrion, Christine; Marcouyeux, Aurore; Starkey-Perret, Rebecca; Narcy-Combes, Marie-Françoise; Birkan, Ilker – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
The study aims to highlight the representations that university students have about plurilingualism, in order to research how they can develop plurilingual competences in an essentially monolingual French academic setting. It is based on a survey of 684 students enrolled in two foreign language programmes across two year levels (first and fourth…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning
University Students' Plurilingual Profiles in a French Frontier City: Similarities and Differences between More and Less Plurilingual Students
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Toffoli, Denyze – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Plurilingualism has been targeted as an objective of the European Commission and its deployment is naturally thought to originate in the education sector. A recent study of the Commission (2012) has pointed to the poor results of French schooling with regard to foreign language instruction, but few quantitative studies have looked specifically at…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Profiles, Second Language Learning, College Students
The Multi-Lingual Information Officer: Educating European Information Professionals.
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Couzinet, Viviane – Education for Information, 1996
Describes a new educational program for multilingual information officers at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie of the Toulouse University of Sciences (France). General and technical courses are given in French and foreign languages so that graduates can take positions and quickly become effective in organizations with international…
Descriptors: French, Higher Education, Information Science Education, Information Scientists
L'Enseignement scolaire des langues vivantes dans les pays membres de la communaute europeenne: bilan, reflexions et propositions (Modern Language Instruction in the Member Countries of the European Community: Evaluation, Reflections, and Proposals).
van Deth, Jean-Pierre – 1979
A review of the situation of modern language teaching in western Europe (Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, West Germany, and the United Kingdom) looks at the demography and multilingualism of the region, the organization of school systems in those countries, and the status of school-based modern language…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Coordination, Demography