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Sabrina Link – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
German university degrees, at least in some countries, offer students only German literature courses in addition to language courses. Linguistics is often not a core component of German degree programmes. As a result, students who are not familiar with basic linguistic terminology do not know how languages work, including their mother tongue, or…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Luisa Bavieri; Roberta Gulinelli – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
The report presents the results of an experimentation of an intercomprehension (IC) workshop, delivered in blended mode for Italian and Brazilian PhD students, and activated at the Language Center of the University of Ferrara during the academic year 2021-22. The general objective was for participants to learn a methodology that enables…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Workshops
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Lehto, Marja-Liisa; Maijala, Minna – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Since Finnish is not an Indo-European language, studying foreign languages in general and then also studying special fields through the medium of foreign languages may provide an extra difficulty for Finnish students. Most university language centres in Finland have organized reading comprehension courses in several foreign languages for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning