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Pirhonen, Hillamaria – Language Learning Journal, 2022
As working life across the world is increasingly multilingual, multicultural and multidisciplinary, higher education language teaching is faced with a challenge of how to prepare students for it. Many universities have recently developed multilingual pedagogies but central to their success is learners' perceptions of these practices. To fill this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Eskildsen, Søren W. – Classroom Discourse, 2018
This commentary draws on the four articles in this issue to discuss interactional competence from a usage-based perspective. The usage-based conception of language knowledge as an inventory of form-meaning pairings used for communicative purposes will be qualified by incorporating the idea that these communicative purposes are social actions. L2…
Descriptors: Biographies, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Linguistic Competence