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Challenging, Supporting, and Empowering Students in IWLP Beginners' Classes: A Teaching and Learning Response to Internationalisation
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Nader, Alison – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Institution-Wide Language Programme (IWLP) modules are a popular option for international students at the University of Reading. Student feedback and module results show that some of these students face particular challenges in relation to their peers. In this paper, we describe how a team teaching Beginners French -- Common European Framework of…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Placement Testing: Man and Machine, Doing the Best We Can?
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McPherson, Douglas – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how and why Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) has developed a system aiming to effectively place students in freshman and developmental English programs. The placement system includes: triangulating data from external test scores, with scores from a panel-marked hand-written essay (HWE),…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Educational Testing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Inventory of English Language Training for Non-Native Speakers of English at the Post-Secondary Level in English-Medium Institutions in Canada.
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Kidd, Richard, Comp.; Burnaby, Barbara, Comp. – 1988
This inventory of 75 English language training facilities in Canadian colleges and universities was compiled to assist the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in identifying suitable sources of English language support for trainees in its projects. No evaluation of programs is implied. Program entries are presented by province and…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Report on the ESF-Funded Project to Consolidate and Develop Foreign Language Modules for Students of Other Disciplines Implemented October 1, 1993-September 30, 1994.
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Little, David; And Others – 1994
This report presents the development and results of a 1-year foreign language module program of 15-weeks duration for university students in the arts, commerce, science, and engineering. The project's central concern was to develop and test a general model for the delivery of foreign language teaching to students of other disciplines. The program…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Language Curriculum Development Research at University Level.
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Tomlinson, P.; Towell, R. – Language Teaching Research, 1999
Describes a curriculum development research project that took place in the French section of the Department of Modern Languages of the University of Salford in the United Kingdom over a 10-year period. The curriculum is motivated by three interacting theoretical perspectives on how languages are learned at an advanced level.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Starting with Students: Notable Programs, Promising Approaches, and Other Improvement Efforts in American Postsecondary Education. Volume II.
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Adelman, Clifford; Reuben, Elaine – 1984
Sixty-six descriptions of notable programs and promising practices related to specific problems, practices, and goals in American postsecondary education are presented in this study, a continuation of Volume I. The programs are the result of searches made by the staff of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, although neither the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Instruction, College Programs, College Second Language Programs