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Direct linkJudith Ansó Ros; Minna Maijala; Nelli Valkamo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Globalisation has resulted in European families that have a variety of home languages, leading to the need for heritage language learning (HLL). The purpose of HLL is to ensure that in addition to learning the language of their schools, children with migrant backgrounds also maintain their heritage language (HL). Besides the 'regular' teaching, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Teacher Role, Language Maintenance
Jarvi, Taina – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2012
Very little research has been conducted on the teaching of entrepreneurship, in particular in vocational education. Entrepreneurship is included in the national curriculum of many European countries, but there is concern over the competence of its teachers and their training in entrepreneurship (European Commission 2009, 14). This article explores…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Vocational Education
Peer reviewedKaikkonen, Pauli – Language Learning Journal, 1997
Describes a "Culture and Foreign Language" action research project that consisted of two years teaching experience with Finnish uppersecondary school pupils. (21 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Course Objectives, Cultural Awareness
Saltarelli, Mario, Ed. – Studies in Language Learning, 1983
Papers in this journal issue concern various aspects of foreign language syllabus construction. Titles and authors are: "The Threshold Level: A Notional-Functional Syllabus" (Barbara F. Matthies); "Functions of Grammar in a Language Teaching Syllabus" (William E. Rutherford); "Communicative and Grammatical Syllabuses to…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Download full textMarsh, David; Rasanen, Anne – 1994
The first teacher in-service development program in foreign language content instruction was run by the Continuing Education Centre of the University of Jyvaskyla in 1991-1992 as a contract program for the City of Kokkola. The success of that program led to the development of the present Teaching Content in a Foreign Language (TCFL) Program, which…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cooperation, Course Content, Course Objectives
Finnish Broadcasting Co., Helsinki. – 1970
A suggested curriculum to be used to teach mass communications in Finnish comprehensive schools is described. Instead of concentrating on either an aesthetic or medium-bound (e.g., film education) approach, this curriculum focuses on the mass media as social institutions and on developing in young people a critical, thoughtful approach to mass…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communications, Course Content
Takala, Sauli – 1994
One of the main aims of the Teaching Content in a Foreign Language (TCFL) program, an in-service teacher training program at the Continuing Education Centre of the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), was to improve the participants' proficiency in English. To promote this objective, English was made the operating language for the whole program.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Rasanen, Anne – 1994
This article presents theoretical considerations behind the Jyvaskyla teacher in-service development program in teaching content through a foreign language and surveys some international experiences of bilingual education. The term "bilingual program" refers to all variations of bilingual education and teaching of non-language subjects…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Concept Formation
