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Cooper, Gabriel – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2020
In the interest of fostering a socially critical and inclusive German Studies, this article urges instructors to pursue curricular reforms to diversify and decolonize German curricula at colleges and universities. While the literary canon's centrality to the German major has tended to leave monolithic impressions of "Germany" and…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Liberal Arts
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Sumner, Josh – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Comparative Judgement (CJ) has emerged as a technique that typically makes use of holistic judgement to assess difficult-to-specify constructs such as production (speaking and writing) in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL). In traditional approaches, markers assess candidates' work one-by-one in an absolute manner, assigning scores to different…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Student Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
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Chen, Sibo; Nassaji, Hossein – Language Teaching, 2018
The Department of Linguistics at University of Victoria (UVic) in Canada has a long-standing tradition of empirical approaches to the study of theoretical and applied linguistics. As part of the Faculty of Humanities, the department caters to students with a wide range of backgrounds and interests, and provides crucial language teaching support in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Error Correction, Applied Linguistics, Departments
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Vasconcelos, Ricardo – Hispania, 2020
Portuguese is the fifth most-spoken language in the world, with about 260 million speakers (and growing to an expected 400 million by 2050), the third most spoken in the West, the most widely spoken in the Southern Hemisphere, an official language in 9 countries and other regions. It is present in Europe, South America, Africa, and parts of Asia.…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Haug, Laura – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Integrated assessment evaluates language proficiency through tasks that require the test-taker to produce a written or spoken output based on listening or reading comprehension (reading or listening-into-writing or speaking). Since integrated assessment aims at reflecting the communicative and cognitive requirements of academic life and other…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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
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Bula, Andrew – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods
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England, Neil – English Australia Journal, 2022
Epistemological beliefs -- such as beliefs about the value attached to different forms of language teacher knowledge -- play a key role in knowledge interpretation and reconstruction in language teacher education. This article first presents a case for an explicit focus on epistemological beliefs in an ELT train-the-trainer program for state…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Epistemology
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Kavalir, Monika; Chudoba, Gregor – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
The paper presents the project entitled Neighbours with a Go-Between that was carried out by the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) between 2016 and 2019, combining indirect literary translation and intercultural communication. Based on the analysis of student reports, the study shows how the task of…
Descriptors: Translation, Intercultural Communication, Communities of Practice, Program Descriptions
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Pentón Herrera, Luis Javier – TESL Canada Journal, 2018
Professional development in the K-12 English language teaching (ELT) classroom is an evolving entity that focuses on meeting the needs of changing demographics and latest educational trends. As a result, many texts have been published with the intention of providing the necessary skills educators need for success in their classrooms and to…
Descriptors: Action Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tschirner, Erwin – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2018
Concepts of second language proficiency and how proficiency may be assessed have changed considerably over the last 20 years. New notions of validity with respect to the interpretation and uses of test scores have begun to shape discussions about test validity and quality assurance in college world language departments, in government, and in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Test Theory, German
Reynolds, Nedra – Liberal Education, 2019
At a time when language programs around the United States are in crisis--the University of Rhode Island's Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures is realigning its curriculum to emphasize proficiency and intercultural competence within a strong liberal arts context. The result of the department's recent initiatives? More than…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Departments
Oregon Department of Education, 2021
ORS 327.016 directs the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to prepare an annual report on English learner program funding and student outcomes. The report's intention is to describe the population of English Learners in Oregon and provide a summary of district and state progress towards meeting their needs and objectives. The ODE annually…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Annual Reports, State Departments of Education, English (Second Language)
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Waldvogel, Dieter A.; de Souza, Ismênia Sales – Hispania, 2017
Brazil's meteoric rise as Latin America's economic superpower has prompted the United States government to reassess its strategic vision of South America and its relationship with Brazil. The next generation of US economic, business, political, and military leaders will likely be faced with a South American landscape heavily dominated by Brazil.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Portuguese
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Larion, Daniela; Albulescu, Andra-Cosmina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2018
The study of English language as a foreign language for the Geography students in the universities of Romania has an important role in students' professional development and in the integration of Romanian academic education in the international context. The implementation of the Bologna Process' international programmes in "Alexandru Ioan…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students
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