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El infierno son los otros

2002

Suicidio programado

2001

Social rights of young people: The role of local and regional authorities

2020

En el marco de toda una serie de debates, resoluciones y otros instrumentos tendentes a fortalecer la integración, participación y compromiso de la juventud a nivel local y regional, este artículo pone el acento en los derechos sociales de los jóvenes garantizados por la Carta Social Europea. Subraya el papel esencial de los entes locales y regionales, en virtud de sus competencias en el ámbito social, para facilitar el acceso y el ejercicio efectivo de los derechos sociales por parte de los jóvenes; a tal efecto, se pone el énfasis en el cumplimiento de la Carta Social y su jurisprudencia como fuentes de inspiración para la acción local y regional en este terreno. El artículo hace un llama…

Consumer protection in financial services – towards greater transparency with a key information document for packaged retail investment products

2012

Consumer protection in financial services – towards greater transparency with a Key Information Document for Packaged Retail Investment Products

Rapporti (sostanziali e processuali) dell’EUIPO con le proprie commissioni di ricorso

2019

Nella sentenza in esame, per quanto riguarda la posizione processuale dell’EUIPO, il Tribunale ha dichiarato che l’Ufficio non può essere tenuto a difendere sistematicamente ogni decisione impugnata di una commissione di ricorso o a concludere necessariamente per il rigetto di qualsiasi ricorso rivolto contro una siffatta decisione. Nulla impedisce all’EUIPO di aderire ad una conclusione della ricorrente. La giurisprudenza ripropone, ancora una volta, il problema della natura delle commissioni di ricorso. In particolare se queste ultime possano essere semplicemente considerate come organi amministrativi, o come una forma di autorità ibrida o quasi giudiziaria. In the judgment, so far as the…

Assessing interactional skills in a paired speaking test : raters’ interpretation of the construct

2019

The operationalization of interactional competence (IC) within the paired speaking test format allows for a range of interactional skills to be tested. However, in terms of assessment, challenges are posed with regard to the co-constructed nature of IC, making investigations into raters’ perceptions of the construct essential to inform test score interpretation. This qualitative study explores features of IC that raters attended to as they evaluated performances in a paired speaking test, part of a Swedish national test of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Two groups of raters, 17 EFL teachers from Sweden, using national standards based on the Common European Framework of Reference for L…

The National Bilingual Programme in Colombia: Imposition or Opportunity?

2011

The National Bilingual Programme, created by the Colombian Ministry of Education in 2004, offers all students in the county the possibility of becoming bilingual in English and Spanish as part of a vision of increased productivity in a globalised world. However, the language and education policies promoted within this framework tend to foreground the development of English at the expense of bilingual competence in Spanish and English. This bilingual policy has been strongly criticised by several Colombian academics with regard to what they consider as the imposition in the Colombian context of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the disregard of local knowledge and exp…

Use your languages! : From monolingual to multilingual interaction in a language class

2015

This reflective paper presents a new course concept for multilingual interaction, which was piloted at the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre in the spring of 2014. The course, implemented as part of the centre’s action research, is the result of a development process aimed at enhancing students’ multilingual and multicultural academic communication competences along with promoting use of their entire linguistic repertoire. The course concept was inspired by the EU project Modularising Multilingual and Multicultural Academic Communication Competence (MAGICC), whose main intent is “to integrate multilingual and multicultural academic communication competences as graduate learning outcom…

Developing a conceptual framework : the case of MAGICC

2015

This paper reports the steps taken to develop the conceptual framework of the MAGICC project (2013), which aimed to provide action-oriented descriptions of multilingual and multicultural academic and professional communication competence, instructional designs to promote these in higher education language teaching, and multidimensional forms of assessment aligned with the learning outcomes established – all presented in an academic ePortfolio that expands the features of the existing European Language Portfolio (ELP) to the higher education level. “Starting with systematic desk research into the existing conceptualisations of multi/plurilingual and multi/ intercultural competences as well a…

Effective Teacher Training: Teacher Lectures in Comparison with Student Power Point Presentations

2013

National (dispositions of the Ministry of Education in Poland 2004, 2006) and international (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages 2001) documents provide many guidelines and suggestions about the competencies that foreign language teachers of today should develop to meet the desired standards and obtain the necessary qualifications. These qualifications comprise knowledge and a wide range of skills. The focus of this chapter is on knowledge since it is the foundation for the development of teaching skills and of a reflective approach to one’s teaching practices. In Polish tertiary education institutions the so-called “theoretical knowledge” has been imparted by means of lect…