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Embed Sustainability in the Curriculum: Transform the World
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Kaur, Kashmir – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This paper is an activity report that draws on the experience of embedding sustainability into the mainstream curriculum in the Language Centre, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. It describes and reflects on programmes that delivered the concept of sustainability and how learners developed their academic…
Descriptors: Sustainability, College Second Language Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Students
Letters outside the Box: Multilingual Practices in High Schools and Academic Contexts
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Amono, Maria; Banchetti, Niccolò – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
In this report, we present certain teaching activities employed at the University of Calabria and at the I.T.C. C. Mortati high school. The former were conducted within the English for Basic Academic Skills courses, the latter in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classes for students in the last two years of high school. The grammar and linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Learning Activities, College Second Language Programs, High School Students
"Cultura e Accoglienza": The Inclusion of Asylum Seeker Students in University Language Courses. Initial Experience and Data
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Duso, Elena Maria; Marigo, Luisa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
In 2016 the University of Padova and its Language Centre ("Centro Linguistico di Ateneo" -- CLA) became involved in the two-year "Cultura e accoglienza" Project (see Dalziel and Piazzoli in this volume), the aim of which was to encourage around 30 refugees and asylum seekers to pursue university studies by means of a…
Descriptors: Universities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Refugees
"Journeys/Viaggi:" Intertwined Multi-University English L2 and Italian L2 Courses for Bilingual and Intercultural Growth
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Thonn, Jessica A. – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The University of Florence's Language Center (CLA) and the Florence seat of an American university renowned for its language programs, Middlebury College, twice intertwined their English and Italian B2/C1 foreign language courses to produce an English/Italian reciprocal learning space. In addition to disparate organizational constructs, the two…
Descriptors: Universities, College Second Language Programs, Italian, Second Language Learning
The Underlying Action-Oriented and Task-Based Approach of the CEFR and Its Implementation in Language Testing and Assessment at University
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Fischer, Johann – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The underlying methodological approach of the CEFR is defined as being "action-oriented" and task-based (Council of Europe. 2001. "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment." Cambridge University Press: 9), although it explicitly leaves room for a variety of approaches, since the CEFR…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales, Guidelines
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
Standardising Assessment to Meet Student Needs in Foreign Language Modules in a University Context: Is Standardisation Possible?
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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