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'Ways of Doing' and 'Ways of Being': Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in Situ at a Transnational Education Institution
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Jingran Yu – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
This article explores students' acquisition of cosmopolitanism through transnational education (TNE). It adopts a critical approach to educational cosmopolitanism, distinguishing 'ways of being' at the dispositional level and 'ways of doing' at the practice level, to unfold the contingency and multiplicity of cosmopolitanism as well as the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, International Education, International Cooperation, Decision Making
The IELTS Exam and Cut-Off Decisions: One University's Mistake
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Roemer, Ann E. – College and University, 2020
College and university admissions officers are the gatekeepers who decide which individuals may join the "country club" of higher education. As such, the decisions they make have a significant impact on the lives of individuals, especially those who are willing to travel across the globe and risk living in an unfamiliar country in order…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cutting Scores
Language Proficiency and Use of Interpreters/Translators in Fieldwork: A Survey of US-Based Anthropologists and Sociologists
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Sepielak, Katarzyna; Wladyka, Dawid; Yaworsky, William – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
The proficiency in vernacular has long been a methodological ethos pervasive among field researchers and--despite new dynamics of fieldwork--still overshadows discussions related to collaboration with translators and interpreters, which are either marginalized or hidden within the category of a 'research assistant'. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Researchers, Translation, Sociology
Effects of Second-Language Proficiency on Students' Completion of Game-Based Curricular Tasks
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Greenhalgh, Spencer Paul – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper examines how students perceive their proficiency in a second language to affect their ability to complete ethical tasks in an educational game. Students' limited proficiency in a second language may impede their ability to carry out real-world tasks; this may cause problems for classes in which the tasks are just as important as…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Educational Games, Ethics
Moral Judgement and Foreign Language Effect: When the Foreign Language Becomes the Second Language
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Cavar, Franziska; Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
While making a decision facing a moral conflict, does your answer vary depending on whether you use your first language or later learned second language? A previous study conducted by Costa, Albert, Alice Foucart, Sayuri Hayakawa, Melina Aparici, Jose Apesteguia, Joy Heafner, Boaz Keysar, and Mariano Sigman [2014. "Your Morals Depend on…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Acculturation
The Ethics of Gatekeeping Tests: What Have We Learned in a Hundred Years?
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Spolsky, Bernard – Language Testing, 1997
Argues that tests have always been used as a means of political and social control. Maintains that test results are unreliable, especially at the extremes, that their predictive power is weak and that language testers need to be skeptical and need to insist on complete information on candidates' backgrounds for selection decision making. (10…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Error Analysis (Language), Ethics, Language Proficiency