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Teresa Cadierno; Mikkel B. Hansen; Carmen Muñoz – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2024
Based on the assumption that individual learner factors are context-dependent, this exploratory study examined whether differences in two learning environments (Denmark and Spain) have a differential influence on a set of learner factors that have together been previously identified as important in second language (L2) research, specifically,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Student Characteristics
Muñoz, Carmen; Cadierno, Teresa – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This study investigates whether potential differences in the weight of out-of-school and in-school learning environments affect the acquisition of L2 English by teenagers in two geographical contexts, more and less English-rich, and with less and more linguistic distance to English, respectively. Participants were two groups of 14-15-year-olds,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Covacevich, Catalina; Vargas, Jimena – OECD Publishing, 2021
Research has shown that foreign languages can be an important driver towards better job opportunities. This is more likely to be the case if young people take foreign languages into account when developing their career and educational expectations. These expectations depend greatly on the context and the opportunities students perceive to be…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
Kolstrup, Kirsten L. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
This article explores how the global trends of marriage migration and tightening of immigration policies in the West interconnect with second language learning motivation. Specifically, this article considers how social positions, governmental regulations, and everyday contexts come together to complicate the expectations of language learning that…
Descriptors: Marriage, Migration, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
Westbrook, Pete – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
As a result of increasing internationalisation, the University of Copenhagen established the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP) in 2008 as a research, competence development and resource centre. Part of CIP's remit is to provide language training (mainly in Danish and English) for students and staff at the University.…
Descriptors: International Education, Universities, Resource Centers, Second Language Learning
Fernández, Susana S.; Pozzo, María Isabel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This paper discusses to what extent synchronous communication via Skype by Argentine university students of History and Danish university students of Spanish contributed to fostering intercultural competence in the two groups of participants. Intercultural gains are considered both as part of the planned tasks to be solved by the participants…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, History Instruction, Synchronous Communication
Porto, Melina – Education 3-13, 2018
This article describes a telecollaboration project about the environment in the primary English as a foreign language classroom carried out in 2013/2014 between Argentina and Denmark. It combines English language teaching with intercultural citizenship education and forms part of a network of projects in Europe, the US and East Asia. This is the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Martí, Natalia Morollón; Fernández, Susana S. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a pedagogical intervention aimed at raising sociopragmatic awareness in the context of Spanish as a foreign language in Denmark. The intervention consists of a blended-learning environment where the three main components are synchronous telecollaboration via Skype, reflection sessions in groups…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics, Blended Learning
Bao, Rui; Du, Xiangyun – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing increased attention from language teachers and researchers in the past decade. This paper focuses on the effects of TBLT on beginner learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Denmark. Participatory observation and semi-structured interviews were carried out with 18 participants from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ruan, Youjin; Duan, Xiaoju; Du, Xiang Yun – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
This study focuses on how beginner learners in a task-based teaching and learning (TBTL) environment perceive what is motivating to them in the process of learning Chinese as a foreign language at Aalborg University, Denmark. Drawing upon empirical data from surveys, group interviews and participant observation, this study explores which kinds of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese, Learning Motivation
Yang, Yu-Fen – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
Students seldom think about language unless they are instructed to do so or are made to do so during learning activities. To arouse students' awareness while learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), this study formed a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) community to engage teachers and students from different domains and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Intercultural Communication, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Vinther, Jane; Slethaug, Gordon – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2015
Increasingly students want to go abroad to study--to further their knowledge of English, experience a new culture and cultivate skills. Universities have been actively courting these students, sometimes without regard to their impact on responsibilities of heads of department, secretaries and support staff. Much is written on the intercultural…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, College Faculty
Byram, Michael; Risager, Karen – 1999
This book investigates how geopolitical changes are influencing language teaching in general and the cultural dimension in particular and discusses the pedagogical opportunities such changes offer teachers and learners. The book views foreign language teaching as having a strong political character that responds to the social and political changes…
Descriptors: Bias, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Educational Trends