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The Language Centre as a Laboratory for Innovation
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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
Institutionalised Autonomisation of Language Learning in a French Language Centre
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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
The Development of a Language Centre. An Example of Best Practice in a Historical Perspective
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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
Evaluation for Development: The "E.A.S.Y." Model for Empowering Actors and Stakeholders in Curriculum Development
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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
Translingual Transcultural Competence: Student Agency, Teacher Guidance, and Program Support
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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
Language Centres as Translation-Service Providers: Joining Forces at European Level
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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
EPOS--The European E-Portfolio of Languages
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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