Search results for "CEFR"

Communicative english language skills improvement programme (CELSIP). Vol. 1

2018

The digital revolution of the recent years has led to new ways of learning through combining innovative and traditional methods. In order to engage our students in this new methods, we have designed a project called “Communicative English Language Skills Improvement Program” (CELSIP) so our learners will be able to achieve a higher communicative level in English through a wide range of multimedia resources as, for instance, audio-books, learning apps, educational websites, TV series, films, board games, and music. These multimodal tools are of easy access to students since the vast majority are friendly-user. Our duty through this project was to select the most useful ones for all kind of l…

The European sTANDEM project for certification in medical English: standards, acceptability and transgression(s)

2014

In the global world of international communication, employers or institutions that wish to determine the language skills of non-native speakers of English usually turn to generalist proficiency tests such as the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or the slightly more business-oriented TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication). These tests enable test takers to certify that they have reached a certain level in skills needed in everyday life and, sometimes, workplace situations, but they do not assess language skills for specific purposes.Aware of this vacuum, a consortium of European teachers/researchers and international experts in the domain of medical English unde…

Käytössä kehittyvä kieli : paikat ja tilat suomi toisena kielenä -oppijoiden teksteissä

2015

Suomen eksistentiaalilause toisen kielen oppimisen polulla

2013

Taitotasokuvauksista käytännönläheiseen palautteeseen : arviointilomake ääntämisen opetukseen

2022

Tässä artikkelissa esittelemme kehittämäämme toisen ja vieraan kielen opetukseen soveltuvaa ääntämisen arviointityökalua, jonka avulla opettaja voi antaa oppijoille monipuolista palautetta ääntämisestä ja yksittäisistä ääntämispiirteistä. Artikkelissa kuvattu arviointilomake pohjaa tutkimustietoon sekä Eurooppalaisen viitekehyksen uudistettuihin ääntämiskuvauksiin. Arviointilomakkeen avulla tarkastellaan kieltenoppijoille keskeisiä ääntämispiirteitä ja lähtökohtia, erityisesti ymmärrettävyyttä, ja lomake yhdistää ääntämiskuvaukset viitekehyksen taitotasoihin. Arviointilomake kattaa ääntämisen yleisarvioinnin lisäksi sekä yksittäisten äänteiden että prosodisten piirteiden tarkemman arvioinni…

Designing and Assessing L2 Writing Tasks Across CEFR Proficiency Levels

2012

Localising Supranational Concepts of Literacy in Adult Second Language Teaching

2012

In this chapter we are analyzing how literacy is conceptualized within education – more specifically within adult second language education in Denmark and Finland. Language and literacy are generally described as highly important for societal growth, coherence and democracy in statements from governments and international agencies. However, in our research literacy appears as a more complex and contradictory resource that is increasingly used as a demarcation line for inclusion and exclusion in the ever more globalised national states. peerReviewed

CEFLING: Combining Second Language Acquisition and Testing Approaches to Writing

2012

'Share your experience'. Digital Storytelling in English for Tourism

2014

The main purpose of this article is to describe the experience achieved when implementing the practical classes of English for Tourism so as to bridge the gap between the professional world of the tourism industry and what students learn at the university. In this article we will first introduce the concept of Digital Storytelling (Lambert (1997), Gregori-Signes (2007-2010), Alcantud-Díaz (2008-2011) and briefly describe some of the projects that have already been developed at the University of Valencia as well as the use of digital stories in the promotion of touristic products. We will then argue that Digital Storytelling can be considered as a productive type of activity which fits the d…

Sähköpostiviestien aloitukset ja lopetukset oppijansuomessa ja oppijanruotsissa

2013

This study examines interpersonality and audience awareness of initial greetings and leave-taking formulae in 1,041 e-mails (523 Finnish, 518 Swedish) written by Finnish (n = 222) and Swedish (n = 174) language learners in basic education, secondary education and at university level in Finland. The results reveal that there are certain communicative differences between the two groups. The e-mails contain different levels of formality: Swedish learners use more initial greetings and their messages are slightly more coherent than those of Finnish learners. The initial greeting hei/hej is commonly used in different contexts, regardless of the language. Learners’ audience awareness is indicated…