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Sabrina Link – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
German university degrees, at least in some countries, offer students only German literature courses in addition to language courses. Linguistics is often not a core component of German degree programmes. As a result, students who are not familiar with basic linguistic terminology do not know how languages work, including their mother tongue, or…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Luisa Bavieri; Roberta Gulinelli – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
The report presents the results of an experimentation of an intercomprehension (IC) workshop, delivered in blended mode for Italian and Brazilian PhD students, and activated at the Language Center of the University of Ferrara during the academic year 2021-22. The general objective was for participants to learn a methodology that enables…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Workshops
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Duso, Elena Maria; Marigo, Luisa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
In 2016 the University of Padova and its Language Centre ("Centro Linguistico di Ateneo" -- CLA) became involved in the two-year "Cultura e accoglienza" Project (see Dalziel and Piazzoli in this volume), the aim of which was to encourage around 30 refugees and asylum seekers to pursue university studies by means of a…
Descriptors: Universities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Refugees
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Forti, Luciana – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This paper looks at how corpus data was used to design an Italian as an L2 language learning programme and how it was evaluated by students. The study focuses on the acquisition of Italian verb-noun collocations by Chinese native students attending a ten month long Italian language course before enrolling at an Italian university. It describes how…
Descriptors: Italian, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Questionnaires
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Dalziel, Fiona; Davies, Gillian; Han, Amy – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The European Language Portfolio (ELP) was designed as a tool that "supports reflective learning and fosters the development of learner autonomy" (Little 2009, "The European Language Portfolio: Where pedagogy and assessment meet". Strasbourg: Council of Europe.…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Undergraduate Students, Portfolios (Background Materials), Second Language Learning
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Han, Amy – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
The CercleS version of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) has been used with language degree students at the University of Padova since the academic year 2002-2003. The courses into which it is embedded are generally blended: lessons take place in traditional classrooms and in the multimedia language laboratory, and students work online in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Newbold, David – ELT Journal, 2009
The major European testing agencies have calibrated their exams to the levels of language proficiency described in the Common European Framework (CEFR). In Italy, where the Framework has been enthusiastically embraced, external exams are now frequently used within the state education system as they are believed to provide reliable, widely…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Foreign Countries, Certification, English (Second Language)
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Kinder, John J. – Italica, 1996
Discusses the presence and significance of linguistics in Italian departments at universities in Australia and worldwide against the background of multiculturalism, the politicization of the Italian population in Australia, and the emergence of Italy as a major economic and political power. Argues that the boundary lines between linguistics and…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Cultural Pluralism, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries