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Hanna 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
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Mickwitz, Åsa; Lehtonen, Heini; Cvetanovic, Dragana; Toom, Auli – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
A great deal of effort has been made in recent years to promote multilingual values in academia and society. This was one reason why the University of Helsinki introduced the Bilingual Bachelor's programme (TvEx) in 2010 to guarantee a sufficient number of bilingual professionals in Finnish society. The aim of this study is to explore students'…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Expertise, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
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Zabala Unzalu, Igone; San Martin Egia, Itziar; Lersundi Ayestaran, Mikel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The aim of this article is to describe some theoretical and methodological bases underpinning the design of the course Health Communication in Basque (HCB) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Based on some relevant theoretical tenets of the socioterminologic and communicative approaches to Terminology, the authors assume that…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Variation, Vocabulary Development
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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