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Language Practices in the Work Communities of Finnish Language Centres
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Hanna Kosonen – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Linguistic diversity is growing in Higher Education, driven by factors like internationalization and digitalization. This trend necessitates a reevaluation of language practices within academic communities. Language Centres play a crucial role in modelling effective practices and reshaping these practices to address the multilingual needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Language Learning Strategies in Focus: Exploring Their Utilization by College Student-Athletes
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Shu-Hsiu Huang; Kuei-Lan Tsai – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This study explores the specific language learning strategies (LLS) employed by student-athletes in Higher Education institutions in Taiwan. Given these student-athletes' challenges in balancing academic and athletic commitments, understanding their adoption of LLS provides valuable pedagogical insights. This quantitative research gathered 150…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies, Student Athletes
Non-English Major Students' Perceptions of Aspects of Their Autonomous Language Learning
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Nguyen, Son Van; Habók, Anita – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
The study investigated the perceptions among non-English major students of autonomous language learning (ALL) of their responsibilities, ability to act autonomously, motivation to learn English, and autonomous activities within and outside of class. The data were collected using questionnaires and follow-up interviews. Nearly 300 students at a…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Access Granted: Modern Languages and Issues of Accessibility at University--A Case Study from Australia
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Brown, Joshua; Caruso, Marinella – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Discussion about how to monitor and increase participation in languages study is gaining relevance in the UK, the US and Australia across various sectors, but particularly in higher education. In recent times levels of enrolment in modern languages at universities around the world have been described in terms of "crisis" or even…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
University Students' Plurilingual Profiles in a French Frontier City: Similarities and Differences between More and Less Plurilingual Students
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Toffoli, Denyze – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Plurilingualism has been targeted as an objective of the European Commission and its deployment is naturally thought to originate in the education sector. A recent study of the Commission (2012) has pointed to the poor results of French schooling with regard to foreign language instruction, but few quantitative studies have looked specifically at…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Profiles, Second Language Learning, College Students
Advanced Learners of German as a Foreign Language in an Academic Context: Some Didactic Implications of Their Needs and Motivations
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Neuner-Anfindsen, Stefanie – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Very little research has been conducted into teaching advanced learners of German as a foreign language (GFL), and the few publications that exist describe such learners as very heterogeneous in respect of their learning needs, motivations, prior knowledge and expectations. Not surprisingly, didactic suggestions for teaching GFL at an advanced…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, German, Student Needs