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Direct linkRuth Vanbaelen – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This study outlines how handwritten reflection cards lead to the retention of the Japanese kana alphabets. Handwriting is said to help improve retention of the Japanese alphabets. Currently, in-person classes provide most of the materials and assignments via the university's Learning Management System (LMS), and students have the choice to…
Descriptors: Japanese, Alphabets, Retention (Psychology), Handwriting
Masrai, Ahmed; Salam El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel; Al Khawar, Hisham – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
The current study aimed to examine the contribution of general and specialist vocabulary knowledge to undergraduate students' academic achievement in university courses which are delivered in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in non-English speaking countries. To this end, the scores of 106 Arab undergraduates on a general vocabulary test…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods
Andujar, Alberto; Cruz-Martínez, Maria Soledad – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The present investigation explores Cognitive Test Anxiety (CTA) in a high-stake oral examination, taking into consideration how face-to-face and computer-based examination formats affect test-takers' anxiety and consequently language performance. Two speaking tests -- face-to-face and computer-based -- were developed for a Spanish university's…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, High Stakes Tests, Verbal Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Zabala-Delgado, Julia; Sawicka, Barbara – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
The Association of Language Centres in Higher Education in Spain (ACLES) and the Association of Academic Foreign Language Centres in Poland (SERMO) established the mutual recognition of their English language competence certificates (CertAcles and ACERT examinations) in 2017, on the basis of previously performed analyses of routine pre-exam and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Shackleton, Caroline – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Most language proficiency exams in Europe are presently developed so that reported scores can be related to the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" (CEFR; (Council of Europe. 2001. "Common European framework of reference for languages: learning, teaching, assessment." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.).…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Guidelines
Baker, Beverly A.; Tsushima, Rika; Wang, Shujiao – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
There are increasing numbers of non-native English speaking applicants to Canadian universities (AUCC 2008a, 2010), which are committed to promoting linguistic and cultural diversity (AUCC 2008b). One result of this trend is that university admissions officers, as gatekeepers, are faced with a growing and potentially confusing array of language…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, College Admission, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Engelhardt, Maike; Pfingsthorn, Joanna – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Modern socio-cognitive and meaning-oriented approaches to foreign language teaching emphasize the role of learner autonomy, which involves being aware of and responsible for one's own ways of learning as well as the utilization of one's own strengths and work on weaknesses (van Lier 1996). Allowing learners to perform self-assessment can provide a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Placement, Language Tests
Beseghi, Micol; Bertolotti, Greta – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
The Language Centre of the University of Parma is responsible for the organization and administration of foreign language tests to a large number of university students. In order to reduce the high rate of test failures, the Language Centre has recently devised a pilot programme as an alternative to more established modes of language learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, College Students, Second Language Learning
