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Anne Chateau; Nicolas Molle; Kossi Seto Yibokou – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Since 2018, a language-learning scheme has been specifically designed for first-year students at the University of Lorraine. Its intended objective is to make them aware of the many possibilities, strategies and methodologies to learn languages, other than simply attending classes. Developing learner autonomy and inciting the students to use all…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Personal Autonomy
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Tsang, Art – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Language laboratories exist in many language centres across the globe. Situated in the popularity of self-access and computer-assisted language learning in the present era, the study investigated tertiary-level English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' general and, particularly, negative views of speech analysis software. Two hundred and…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Intonation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Chateau, Anne; Tassinari, Maria Giovanna – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
Autonomy in language learning is for many language centres in higher education a pedagogical goal. However, although autonomy is a concept thatĀ hasĀ been associated with language learning for almost 40 years, both the understanding of that concept and its implementation in classroom-settings and in self-access language centres vary considerably. In…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Argondizzo, Carmen; De Bartolo, Anna Maria; Fazio, Alessandra; Jimenez, Jean M.; Ruffolo, Ida – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
At the start of 2000 a new scenario emerged in Europe thanks to the Council of Europe and the European Commission who, in support of the Bologna Process (1999), laid the foundations for disseminating the value of multilingualism and multiculturalism. The aim was to create a framework of actions to make citizens more aware of respecting diversity…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Higher Education, Resource Centers, Language Laboratories
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Robinson, Ian Michael – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
With the advent of web 2.0 and the ease of use of many hand-held devices, access to the internet has never been easier. This has been accompanied by a growing range of sites available for learning an L2. These sites offer lessons, explanations, exercises, corrections and feedback. It now becomes time once again to question whether physical bricks…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Cappellini, Marco; Mompean, Annick Rivens – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
In this article we consider how the roles of learner and teacher are configured in a teletandem exchange between two students working in a university language centre with no external tutor present. Teletandem is a multilateral exchange (Lewis et al. 2011) via desktop videoconferencing. It is based on the tandem method, where two learners with…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rontu, Heidi; Tuomi, Ulla-Kristiina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The role of research in university institutions whose primary task is to provide teaching remains ambiguous and controversial. In principle, all university teaching is based on pertinent research. However, for some university units, such as language centres, the basic tasks, and consequently their funding, are very often defined in a manner which…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Universities