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Learning Chinese and Making Meaning -- Ways to Develop Intercultural Citizenship in the Foreign Language Classroom
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Fei Morgan – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Using Chinese language teaching in an engineering department as an example, this paper explores how language teaching can meet the challenges of globalisation and the advancement of technology by fulfilling its educational function as described in Byram's model of intercultural communicative competence. By adapting theories and practices from…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Intercultural Communication, Psychotherapy, Foreign Countries
A Multilingual Refugee, a Personal Experience
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Alhallak, Ghaith – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The refugee is the person who has fled his or her country for reasons of war, racial discrimination, vengeance, sectarian massacres or other reasons. Many refugees have left everything behind them to reach a society that is completely different from their own, creating many challenges. Perhaps the most important of these challenges is to learn the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Multilingualism, Migrants, Second Language Instruction
Evolution of University Internationalisation Strategies and Language Policies: Challenges and Opportunities for Language Centres
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Critchley, Mark; Wyburd, Jocelyn – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we explore how language centres can and need to seize the initiative in matters of internationalisation, language policy and supporting a multilingual and multicultural institutional environment. We identify and explore a number of challenges and opportunities, using the situation in the United Kingdom as our example, demonstrating…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
Communication Course for Future Engineers -- Effective Data Presentation and Its Interpretation during LSP Courses
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Matuszak, Katarzyna; Szczuka-Dorna, Liliana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This activity report describes a sample unit (Effective Data Presentation) from a communication course prepared as part of an Intellectual Output within the BADGE Project, which was carried out by 12 partner universities from 10 countries during 3 academic years (2019-2022). The article first describes the results of a survey which show that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wor(l)d Order and Coloniality in Language Education for Migrants. Key Ideas for Thinking Otherwise
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Dell'Olio, Francesca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Migration has become an important phenomenon in the contemporary world. In receiving countries, language policies have been put into place to offer migrants education in the national language, in order to give them tools to communicate with and to create a feeling of belonging to the local community. These policies claim to be integration…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Taking Research from Periphery to Core in a Caribbean Language Centre
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Carter, Beverly-Anne – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper draws on two research activities to discuss the role of research at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL) at The University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Established in 1997, the CLL introduced languages for all into this Caribbean higher education (HE) context. The CLL also introduced an expanded…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
Using an e-Portfolio to Facilitate the Self-Assessment of Both Language and Intercultural Learning in Higher Education: A Case-Study Approach
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Kennedy, Fionnuala; Bruen, Jenny; Péchenart, Juliette – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
The focus of this paper is twofold: first, on the development of an electronic version of a European Language Portfolio (ELP), known as the LOLIPOP (Language On-line Portfolio Project) ELP, and second on its integration into an undergraduate module on Intercultural Communication in an institute of higher education in Ireland. The paper begins by…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Second Language Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials)