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Direct linkShalva Tabatadze; Kakha Gabunia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This study examines the current landscape of language policy in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Georgia, focusing on teaching, research, and administration. A purposive selection of strategic documents from seventeen public and private universities forms the basis of analysis using Thematic Content Analysis (TCA). The research identifies…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Content Analysis, State Universities
Chateau, Anne; Molle, Nicolas – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
The UFR Lansad (Language centre teaching languages to specialists of other disciplines) was created in 2014 at the University of Lorraine. The process leading to its creation was led by a small number of teachers and researchers, from the pre-existing teams of the previous Lorraine universities (Molle et al. 2019). It is the result of didactic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study, Personal Autonomy
Zabala-Delgado, Julia; Sawicka, Barbara – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
The Association of Language Centres in Higher Education in Spain (ACLES) and the Association of Academic Foreign Language Centres in Poland (SERMO) established the mutual recognition of their English language competence certificates (CertAcles and ACERT examinations) in 2017, on the basis of previously performed analyses of routine pre-exam and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Mason, Shannon; Hajek, John – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Educational issues are a regular feature in mainstream media, and the ways in which particular issues are represented can influence public perceptions of the various discipline areas and, in turn, policy decisions that affect them. While the research literature includes media coverage analyses of a wide range of educational disciplines and…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Universities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Caruso, Elisa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This article reports on research that questions the existence and use of translingual practices in higher education. On the one hand, the increase of mobility in Tertiary Education leads to the presence of various individual repertoires in the classroom and, on the other hand, the use of scientific texts, usually published in English, is more and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Haines, Kevin; Dijk, Anje – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The CEFR will only achieve its potential in higher education if it is embedded in a meaningful way in the wider processes of the university. One means of embedding the CEFR is through policy, and in this article we report the development of a language policy in the broader context of internationalization at a Dutch university. We describe some the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Wapinska, Ewa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This article describes some of the opportunities and challenges presented by beginners' courses in Norwegian for international students offered by the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo. Teaching approaches and course content are examined in relation to CEFR levels A1, A2 and B1 and the CEFR's main…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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
Schaffner, Sabina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article explores the impact of language policy issues on program development and management at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Language Center. Based on the analysis of the language policy approach of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, the article reflects both current practices and policy elements with the help of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Universities, Language of Instruction
