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Goris, José; Denessen, Eddie; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The present study investigates whether CLIL learners' high scores in English as a foreign language (EFL) can be attributed to three specific learner variables: 'EFL aptitude', 'EFL confidence' and 'international orientation' -- and whether out-of-school EFL exposure has an effect. The study was undertaken in eight secondary school CLIL classes in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Soares, Camila Tabaro; Duarte, Joana; Günther-van der Meij, Mirjam – Language and Education, 2020
The increasing occurrence of multilingualism in the educational sphere is challenging teachers to deal with the coexistence of different languages in the classroom. The present paper presents the analysis of language portraits as a tool to make students' multilingualism visible by using colours to represent their multilingual repertoires. Through…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Color, Sociolinguistics, Student Attitudes
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Mearns, Tessa; de Graaff, Rick; Coyle, Do – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been said to increase not only foreign language proficiency but also learner motivation (Coyle, D., P. Hood, and D. Marsh. 2010. "CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). In contexts where CLIL is elective, however, the question can be…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes, Course Content
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Dong, Jie; Dong, Yan – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2013
This article explores voicing processes of identity construction among labor immigrants both inside China and in the Dutch Chinese Diaspora. We provide ethnographically grounded data oriented toward a theoretical point: voicing is an essential problem in communication. Whether one is able to achieve his voice--an outcome of a communicative…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Second Language Learning
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Kohn, Kurt; Hoffstaedter, Petra – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article discusses insights gained from a case study on telecollaboration for intercultural communication in foreign language school contexts. Focus was on non-native English and German lingua franca conversations between pairs of students (aged 14-16, B1 level) from schools in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. Telecollaboration…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Intercultural Communication
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Quist, Gerdi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
Appreciating difference and combating intolerance are inadequate to effect intercultural transformative experiences in an age of complexity, ambiguities and mobilities. I argue that the tolerance view of intercultural communication is patronising and does not prepare students for future roles in which they can impact upon the world. To realise…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Role