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Direct linkHanna Kosonen – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Linguistic diversity is growing in Higher Education, driven by factors like internationalization and digitalization. This trend necessitates a reevaluation of language practices within academic communities. Language Centres play a crucial role in modelling effective practices and reshaping these practices to address the multilingual needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Awad Alhassan – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has been increasingly used in Higher Education institutions in countries where English is spoken as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL). Research over the last decade has predominantly focused on EMI implementation, perceptions, and attitudes of stakeholders towards EMI as well as the challenges…
Descriptors: Coping, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Scott-Monkhouse, Anila R.; Tal, Michal; Yelenevskaya, Maria – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This paper describes a joint programme developed in 2018 by the University of Parma Language Centre (Italy) and the Humanities and Arts Department of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The aim of the project was to involve students of English for General Academic Purposes in delivering presentations to an unfamiliar foreign audience on a…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Program Descriptions, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Bruen, Jennifer; Kelly, Niamh – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This paper considers the position of university language students whose mother tongue is other than the medium of instruction. Specifically, it investigates the attitudes and experiences of non-native English speakers studying either German or Japanese as foreign languages at an English-medium university. The findings indicate that the non-native…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Student Diversity, Language of Instruction, Cultural Influences
Alhamami, Munassir – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
This study investigates Arab university scientists' views of the status of English and Arabic in the 21st century, and their attitudes towards using English and Arabic as media of instruction in science faculties in the Arab world. Twenty-seven science instructors at a Saudi University coming from different backgrounds responded to a written…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
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
Nunan, Anna – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The Applied Language Centre at University College Dublin offers foreign language modules to students in ten languages at CEFR [Common European Framework of Reference for Languages] levels ranging from A1 to B2. Efforts have been underway in the Centre to standardise the assessment components across languages to ensure parity between module credits…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students, Standards
