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Slovak as a Foreign Language for the First-Year Bachelor Students
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Gluchmanova, Marta – Advanced Education, 2022
Every year, more and more foreign students are enrolled at the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies in Prešov of the Technical University in Kosice. For this reason, Slovak Language for Foreign Students was introduced as a compulsory subject in the 1st year of bachelor's study. The purpose of the paper was to emphasize the teaching of Slovak as a…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Second Language Learning, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
CA-CLIL: Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Implementing CLIL in Tertiary Education
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Štefková, Jaroslava; Danihelová, Zuzana – Advanced Education, 2023
These days, languages at non-philological universities are becoming an important tool of internationalization. However, language classes seem to be an additional subject to the obligatory technical subjects, and they are not given enough space in the technical study portfolios. Therefore, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), which…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Labour Market Requirements for Foreign Language Education with a Focus on Spanish
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Spišiaková, Mária; Kittová, Zuzana – Advanced Education, 2020
The paper focuses on education in the field of foreign languages, particularly Spanish, in the framework of university study of economic and managerial orientation in Slovakia in order to find out what the labour market requirements are for graduates in the field of foreign language skills. In our research, we focus on Spanish, as no similar…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Economics Education, Spanish
Initial Assessment for K-12 English Language Support in Six Countries: Revisiting the Validity-Reliability Paradox
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Sinclair, Jeanne; Lau, Clarissa – Language and Education, 2018
It is common practice for K-12 schools to assess multilingual students' language proficiency to determine language support program placement. Because such programs can provide essential scaffolding, the policies guiding these assessments merit careful consideration. It is well accepted that quality assessments must be valid (representative of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement
Nonnative EFL Teachers' Speaking Anxiety: Post-Communist Country Context
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Kralova, Zdena; Tirpakova, Anna – SAGE Open, 2019
The current study aims to fill the gap in the current literature by focusing on the wide scale of nonnative English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perceptions and opinions in the specific context of a post-Communist country. It focuses on the link between five demographic variables (age, the length of English language study, English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Developing Communicative Competence in University Language Programmes
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Šajgalíková, Helena; Breeze, Ruth – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article deals with university language teaching in the perspective of its shift from linguistic competence towards communicative competence, and presents some aspects of the underlying process. It analyses the findings from a survey conducted within the Leonardo project "Transparency in the Acquired Language Competences" (TALC;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communicative Competence (Languages), College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction