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Measuring Language Learner Autonomy in Higher Education: The Self-Efficacy Questionnaire of Language Learning Strategies
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Ruelens, Elke – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Students in higher education are expected to be autonomous and to become co-owners of their learning. In practice, they need support to advance their autonomy, and formal education is assigned an important role in this development. In order to optimally support the advancement of learner autonomy, educators should be able to define, identify and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study
"Come and Sit Here Next to Me": Towards a Communicative Assessment of Oral Language Skills
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Buyse, Kris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
As Van den Branden (2007) has pointed out, since communicative approaches have been setting the agenda in language teaching in Belgium, the assessment of oral language competence has shifted its focus from form (i.e. accuracy of vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics) to communicative language proficiency (successful use of language in meaningful…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
Analyzing Student Teachers' Academic Literacy Needs: A Qualitative Analysis of Flemish First-Year Teacher Trainees' Needs
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Van Houtven, Tine; Peters, Elke; Van den Branden, Kris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
In recent years, the student population enrolling in Flemish higher education has become increasingly diverse. Whereas teacher training institutes used to attract mainly students with a diploma of general secondary education, the proportion of students with a technical or vocational educational background has grown substantially over the past ten…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Needs, Needs Assessment
Self-Assessment and Placement Tests --A Worthwhile Combination?
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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