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Miira Häkkinen; Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2025
This study investigated adult learners' experiences with the language of their new living environment. Migrants and refugees' personal goals for language learning in their specific life situations were captured in in-depth interviews conducted as part of ethnographically oriented field studies in Finland and Germany. Interpretative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Well Being, Immigrants
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Nils Jaekel; Michael Schurig; Markus Ritter – Language Learning Journal, 2024
With the rapid implementation of early foreign language programmes in the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, first for Grade 3 (ages 8-9 years) in 2003 and then from Grade 1 (ages 6-7 years) in 2008, primary school teachers had to adapt to teaching a foreign language in Grade 1 quickly. Teachers had little experience with language teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs, FLES
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José Igor Prieto-Arranz; Maria Juan-Garau; Francesca Mesquida-Mesquida – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This article provides qualitative information chronicling the study-abroad experiences of eight Erasmus+ students. Data were obtained from the analysis of focus-group discussions, e-journal narratives, plus background and language contact questionnaires. Combined, such data illustrate the participants' discursive positions on their socialisation…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Experience, Socialization, Self Concept
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Sue Ollerhead; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer; Alice Chik – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the global trend of growing diversity in student enrolment, most teacher education programmes remain inward-looking, oriented to national core standards and resist academic calls for internationalisation. While we agree that internationalisation at home is possible under certain circumstances, we put forward the argument that dialogic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intercultural Communication
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Emrullah Yasin Çiftçi; A. Cendel Karaman – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Erasmus student experiences currently seem to be closely linked to the neoliberal common sense, meaning that market-oriented motivations and consumerist behaviours can often be found in students' discourses and experiences. With this point in mind, in this qualitative inquiry, we focused on how a cohort of prospective English language teachers…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Pohlmann-Rother, Sanna; Lange, Sarah Désirée; Zapfe, Laura; Then, Daniel – Language and Education, 2023
Teaching multilingual learning groups is an important part of the professional activity of primary teachers in Germany, placing high demands on their occupational professionalism. The aim of this article is to analyse the effects of educational and occupational influencing factors on the beliefs of teachers regarding multilingualism as a facet of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Li, Jin Hui; Enemark, Nanna Ramsing – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article explores how the development of mother-tongue instruction (MTI) policies in the Danish welfare state have created varying notions of difference and sameness in the schooling of migrant students and how they experience these notions locally in practice. Based on an analysis of MTI's policy history and oral history interviews with…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Social Systems, Immigrants, Educational Policy
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Claudia Koehler – Intercultural Education, 2025
This paper revisits and expands upon the findings of the 'Multi-country Partnership to Enhance the Education of Refugee and Asylum-seeking Youth in Europe (PERAE)' initiative, which was launched by the SIRIUS Network in 2016 to address the challenges of integrating refugee youth into European education systems. Amid the significant influx of…
Descriptors: Refugees, Partnerships in Education, Social Integration, Access to Education
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Jaekel, Nils; van Ackern, Isabelle; Schurig, Michael; Markus, Ritter – Language Learning Journal, 2022
With the growing popularity of early foreign language learning (EFLL) programmes in elementary schools, the transition to secondary school constitutes a crucial bridge. Ensuring a smooth transition that builds on students' L2 language proficiency and gradually shifts pedagogical approaches is key for long-term success. The present study examines…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Elementary School Students, FLES
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Jose Ignacio Priego-Quesada; Andresa M. C. Germano; Daniel Schmidt; Alberto Encarnacion-Martínez; Andressa L. Lemos; Carlos Sendra-Perez; Conrado T. Laett; Emmanuel S. da Rocha; Falk Zaumseil; Fran Oficial-Casado; Inaê de Oliveira; Inmaculada Aparicio-Aparicio; Jesús A. Escalona-Navarro; Joaquín Martín Marzano-Felisatti; Marina Gil-Calvo; Ignacio Catalá-Vilaplana; Niclas Masuch; Pedro Pérez-Soriano; Roberto Sanchis-Sanchis; Felipe P. Carpes – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Internationalization in higher education is essential, and although active learning methodologies are increasing and allow students to develop transversal skills, most still have a very local scope. In this context, the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) methodology is an interesting approach to benefit the students' development.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Science Education, Biomechanics, International Education
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Gilham, Polly; Fürstenau, Sara – Language and Education, 2020
In this article, we present a qualitative investigation which was conducted as part of a project on school development in the field of multilingualism in Germany. In order to gain insight into the relationship between primary school teachers' language experience and their practice regarding the inclusion of pupils' home languages at school,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Usage, Multilingualism, Elementary School Teachers
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Carmona, Carmen; Marhuenda Fluixá, Fernando; Hernaiz-Agreda, Nerea; Navas Saurin, Almudena A. – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
Young European graduates are crossing borders to work abroad more often than in the past. This trend is particularly evident in Southern Europe, where recent economic downturn has significantly diminished professional opportunities and career prospects. This study will investigate Spain, a country where unemployment has increased dramatically…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, College Graduates, Economic Climate, Labor Market
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Richardson, Donald – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2016
This paper adds to the small but growing body of research into the potential of augmented reality games for teaching and learning English as a foreign language (EFL). It explores the extent to which such games enhance the language learning experience of advanced level EFL learners. The author draws on his work developing "Mission not really…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Games, Second Language Instruction
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Helm, Francesca, Ed.; Beaven, Ana, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual exchange is gaining popularity in formal and non-formal education, partly as a means to internationalise the curriculum, and also to offer more sustainable and inclusive international and intercultural experiences to young people around the world. This volume brings together 19 case studies (17 in higher education and two in youth work) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Youth Programs
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Pfingsthorn, Joanna; Czura, Anna – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
While research data concerning study abroad experiences of tertiary level students are easily accessible, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of international programmes in pre-service foreign language (FL) teacher education. The present study involved student teachers of English from three countries and aimed to explore their…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Study Abroad, Interdisciplinary Approach, Workshops
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