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Heinonen, Annemari; Tuomainen, Satu – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The processes to assess students' learning acquired in various non-formal and informal learning environments have become increasingly common in Finnish university language centres in recent years. This paper describes new developments at the University of Eastern Finland to assess students' non-formal and informal learning of English for Academic…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Laboratories
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de la Fuente, Anahí Alba; Lacroix, Hugues – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
In foreign language classrooms we often find that, in addition to their mother tongue (L1), learners already speak--or are learning--at least one other language. As a result, they already have an array of linguistic and cognitive skills that may prove very useful if they are adequately exploited during the language learning process. However, in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Prior Learning