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From Placement to Diagnostic Testing: Improving Feedback to Learners and Other Stakeholders in SELF (Système d'Evaluation en Langues à visée Formative)
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Coulange, Sylvain; Jouannaud, Marie-Pierre; Cervini, Cristiana; Masperi, Monica – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Since 2012 an interdisciplinary and culturally heterogeneous team composed of more than 30 people has been engaged in the complex process of conceiving, designing and validating an online placement test with formative orientation called SELF (Système d'Evaluation en Langues à visée Formative), developed and already deployed in six different…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Multilingualism
Taking Research from Periphery to Core in a Caribbean Language Centre
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Carter, Beverly-Anne – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper draws on two research activities to discuss the role of research at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL) at The University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Established in 1997, the CLL introduced languages for all into this Caribbean higher education (HE) context. The CLL also introduced an expanded…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
"La vita è bella" (Benigni 1997) and Its Subtitled Versions in the Teaching of L2 English, Spanish and German
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Buffagni, Claudia; Garzelli, Beatrice; Ghia, Elisa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The present contribution focuses on Benigni's auteur film "La vita è bella" (Italy, 1997) as a tool for the development of language competence in L2 English, Spanish and German, as well as of translation skills from Italian into these languages. The project, developed at the CLASS Language Centre at the University for Foreigners of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Films, Film Study, Technology Uses in Education
Translating the CercleS European Language Portfolio into Portuguese for Plurilingual Development in a Community of Practice
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Arau Ribeiro, María del Carmen – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
In this paper plurilingual and autonomy building activities are described with reference to the CercleS European Language Portfolio and some parts of the original Council of Europe Language Portfolio. For this extracurricular plurilingual learning project in Portugal, eight second-year female students studying for a degree in Executive Secretarial…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Attitudes and Motivational Factors behind Finnish Business Students' Choices of Foreign Languages
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Grasz, Sabine; Schlabach, Joachim – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This article presents the findings of a study conducted at five Finnish business schools in 2009. The aim of the study was to provide a broad picture of different aspects connected with language education at universities. After an overview of the situation of language studies in Finnish business education, the results are presented of the analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, College Students, Student Attitudes