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Jennifer Bruen; Elena López Cuenca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This paper analyses the language educator's experience of delivering an Institution-Wide Language Programme (IWLP) in an Irish University. It uses a focus group to explore the experiences of six International Language Tutors who delivered modules on a pilot IWLP between 2021 and 2024. The findings indicate that designing and delivering the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Program Implementation, College Second Language Programs
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Tamayo Cano, Luis Hernando; Riascos Gómez, Andrés Felipe; Pineda Hoyos, Jorge Eduardo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This needs analysis study sought to identify the contextual requirements to design and implement a blended learning program in English at a Colombian public university. Data on teachers' and administrators' perceptions were gathered through a questionnaire, interviews, and focus groups and analyzed using grounded theory. Findings revealed the need…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Blended Learning
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Iftanti, Erna – Dinamika Ilmu, 2018
In response to one of the demands for EFL learners to have cross cultural competence mainly on cultures of English speaking countries, this article describes assessment model implemented in "Learning Gallery technique" to teach "Cross Cultural Understanding." "Learning Gallery" as one of the innovative ways of…
Descriptors: Models, Program Implementation, Cross Cultural Training, Cross Cultural Studies
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Plutino, Alessia – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This paper provides an overview of the successful pedagogical project TwitTIAMO, now in its third year, where micro blogging (Twitter) has been used in Italian language teaching and learning to improve students' communicative language skills, accuracy, fluency and pronunciation outside timetabled lessons. It also explores the background and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Language Skills, Language Fluency, Language Acquisition
Fenton-Smith, Ben; Gurney, Laura – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Nearly two decades have passed since Kaplan and Baldauf [1997. "Language planning from practice to theory." Clevedon: Multilingual Matters] drew attention to the dearth of language policy and planning (LPP) in higher education. Despite the continuing inflow of English as an additional language students into Anglophone universities, and a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Academic Discourse, Educational Policy, Higher Education
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Ramírez Espinosa, Alexánder – HOW, 2016
Promoting learner autonomy is relevant in the field of applied linguistics due to the multiple benefits it brings to the process of learning a new language. However, despite the vast array of research on how to foster autonomy in the language classroom, it is difficult to find step-by-step processes to design syllabi and curricula focused on the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Guides, Instructional Design
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Ahmed, Md. Kawser – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Communicative Language Teaching, popularly known as CLT, has become a newly adopted methodology in the teaching and learning context of Bangladesh. This methodology, since the initiation, has encountered and is still encountering a number of hurdles that need to be dealt with best care and feasible strategy. Of all methods, most of the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation, Strategic Planning
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García Chamorro, Martha; Rey, Lourdes – HOW, 2013
Over the past few decades, information and communication technologies have been integrated into the language teaching and learning scenario with relatively great success. Accordingly, teachers' role in this process is fundamental in order to make this integration really relevant for students' learning. This paper reports the results obtained in a…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Technology Integration, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Brinckwirth, Anton T. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate a class-to-class online English-Portuguese "Teletandem" program that was conceived, negotiated, and implemented cross-collaboratively between the foreign language instructors and language resource center (LRC) staff at two large state universities--one in the United States and the other in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Orleans, Myron, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
Online education continues to permeate mainstream teaching techniques in higher education settings. Teaching upper-level classes in an online setting is having a major impact on education as a whole and is fundamentally altering global learning. "Cases on Critical and Qualitative Perspectives in Online Higher Education" offers a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Case Studies, Instruction
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Cazabon, Benoit – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
The administrative and pedagogical difficulties of implementing a communicative approach in a university French program are outlined, including student language needs and expectations, program organization and content, and implementing appropriate situations and practices. The question of whether a student can attain bilingualism at this level…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Voght, Geoffrey M., Ed. – 1984
Part VI of the proceedings includes 12 presentations. They are: "Teaching Students How to Read Economics and Commercial Texts in a Commercial French Course: Focus on Meaning" (Robert A. Kreiter); "The Teaching of French for Computers and Information Science" (John B. Romeiser); "A Program in French for Hotel and Restaurant Management Majors: The…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs, Computer Oriented Programs