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Jennifer Bruen; Elena López Cuenca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This paper analyses the language educator's experience of delivering an Institution-Wide Language Programme (IWLP) in an Irish University. It uses a focus group to explore the experiences of six International Language Tutors who delivered modules on a pilot IWLP between 2021 and 2024. The findings indicate that designing and delivering the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Program Implementation, College Second Language Programs
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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
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Mohamed, Salwa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
It is generally accepted that culture is inseparable from language. However, the provision of culture in FL courses takes different forms. At Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), minor route/30 credit language students in the Uniwide Language Programme are allocated 1 h for cultural studies (known as the project hour) in addition to a weekly…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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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
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Toffoli, Denyze – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Plurilingualism has been targeted as an objective of the European Commission and its deployment is naturally thought to originate in the education sector. A recent study of the Commission (2012) has pointed to the poor results of French schooling with regard to foreign language instruction, but few quantitative studies have looked specifically at…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Profiles, Second Language Learning, College Students
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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
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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
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Pinto, Susana; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Higher education plays a fundamental role in the construction of a European citizenship that demands the development of plurilingual competences. Although the Bologna Process highlights that development (relating it to mobility, employability and lifelong learning), language education does not seem to be a priority in the agenda of higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multilingualism, Student Mobility, Employment Potential