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Jakonen, Teppo; Jauni, Heidi – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Videoconferencing is increasingly used in education as a way to support distance learning. This article contributes to the emerging interactional literature on video-mediated educational interaction by exploring how a telepresence robot is used to facilitate remote participation in university-level foreign language teaching. A telepresence robot…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Lockley, Thomas; Yoshida, Chiharu – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
This study attempts to build on the little work that has been done so far on empirically and systematically researching what language and culture exchange (LCE) in the classroom between students of different foreign languages means to those students. It describes the context and method used to build such an exchange and after reviewing relevant…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Japanese
Tammelin, Maija; Peltonen, Berit; Puranen, Pasi; Auvinen, Lis – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
This paper discusses learning language and communication activities that focus on students' concrete involvement in their learning process. The activities first deal with student-produced blogs and digital videos in business Spanish. They then present student-produced podcasts for Swedish business communication learners that are meant for speakers…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Activities, Student Developed Materials
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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
Marsh, David – 1989
Throughout Finland the different centers for Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), along with diverse interests of LSP instructors, account for a wide range of LSP curricula in Finland. This paper examines the situation in two centers and argues that any LSP program for postsecondary students who are likely to have professional contact with…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Liski, Erkki; Puntanen, Simo – Language Learning, 1983
Analysis of error patterns in a test taken by 698 Finnish university students shows errors are made in this declining order of frequency: grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and use. More talkative students were proportionately more proficient per utterance, and higher proficiency also correlated with sex (female) and high matriculation test…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns