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Salla-Riikka Kuusalu; Päivi Laine; Minna Maijala; Maarit Mutta; Mareen Patzelt – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore how university language students evaluate different sustainability themes and examine the overall relevance of ecological, social, cultural and economic sustainability dimensions in language education. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire was designed to study Finnish university language students' (n =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Modern Language Curriculum, Second Language Learning
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Plutino, Alessia; Cervi-Wilson, Tiziana; Brick, Billy – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper reports on the rationale for the implementation of a pilot project using a scenario-based Virtual Reality (VR) resource, originally developed by Health Sciences at Coventry University and now being repurposed for Italian language learning as a collaborative project with Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Health Sciences, Italian, Second Language Learning
Witte, Arnd, Ed.; Harden, Theo, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2011
This book explores the idea of "intercultural competence", which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague and oscillating concept. Interculture lacks a universal definition and "competence" is not only a cognitive construct but also includes psychological traits such as attitudes,…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Interpersonal Competence, Second Language Learning, Research