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Chinese Students' Engagement with Linguistic Landscapes during a Summer School in Scotland
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Hancock, Andy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article examines visiting Chinese undergraduate students' engagement with the linguistic landscape (LL) in the city of Edinburgh as they participated in a University summer school. A pedagogical approach was taken involving capturing LL on display during a 'camera safari'; reflecting on questions through dialogic discussion and in writing and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Speaking, Intervention, Multilingualism
Using the ELP as a Basis for Self- and Peer Assessment When Selecting "Best" Work in Modern-Language Degree Programmes
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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
A Course in Conversation as Cultural Practice
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Knutson, Elizabeth M. – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
This paper describes an upper level foreign language course designed to enable students to "learn about conversation" as both a universal and culture-specific form of talk, and to "learn to converse" at an advanced level and in culturally appropriate ways with speakers of French from France and Francophone countries. Students…
Descriptors: Interaction, Foreign Countries, French, Native Speakers