Search results for "language education"

Apprendenti universitari e profili di competenza nella scrittura accademica

2021

Nell'ambito delle ricerche sulle competenze linguistiche degli studenti universitari in Italia, il contributo indaga le pratiche di comunicazione scritta e le relative difficoltà espresse da studenti di un corso di recupero OFA in corsi di laurea triennale. L'indagine è parte di un progetto di rilevazione più ampio ed è stata realizzata somministrando un questionario informatizzato. I dati raccolti permettono di sviluppare alcune riflessioni utili sul profilo linguistico-comunicativo di apprendenti dalle competenze definite "fragili"; la loro autorappresentazione in termini di biografia linguistica; i bisogni linguistico-comunicativi espressi in rapporto ai compiti di scrittura, e il senso …

Language Education Policy in England : Is English the elephant in the room?

2011

This paper offers a critical review of language education policies and the state of language education in England over the last decade (2000-2010), which has been characterised by a bewildering array of initiatives to promote language learning, year-on-year improved grades of school exams, and language education policies showing little coherence. Conversely, both media and student voices on the subject of language learning in the UK reveal high awareness of the UK’s poor performance relative to other EU countries. This picture is interpreted within the context of Global English, proposing that a tacit assumption that English is enough offers a coherent explanation of current practices and p…

Learner identity in EFL: An analysis of digital texts of identity in higher education

2018

This study explores learner identity (LI) in digital texts of identity (DTI) produced by college learners in English as a foreign language (EFL). In so doing, it aims to shed light on learners’ connections of their learning experiences across time and settings, and their impact on the various learner identities that form their LI. It also intends to elucidate how learners construct powerful learner identities in and through their digital discourses. To this end, 51 DTI were collected and scrutinized, following studies on LI, critical and poststructuralist discourse analysis, and “thematic” and “dialogic/performative” analysis within narrative research. Learners established connections betwe…

PENGAJARAN APRESIASI NILAI-NILAI CERITA RAKYAT “EMPAT RAJA” DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA SEBAGAI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN KONTEKSTUAL DI KABUPATEN R…

2016

The main focus of the research is to reveal educative values contained in Empat Raja “Four Kings” Folklore. It is hoped that this research can serve as an Indonesian language teaching medium with contextual learning model containing local or Papuan literatures, especially folklores from Raja Ampat areas. Contextual learning model is a model in implementing literature appreciation learning which helps the teachers to tie the materials and students' real world. The method used in this research was descriptive-qualitative with data collection which were obtained from Empat Raja “Four Kings” folklore. The data were collected by usinginterview and observation technic and were analyzed by using v…

A market of accents

2009

This paper describes the cultural semantics of internet courses in American accent. Such courses are offered by corporate providers to specific groups of customers: people in search of success in the globalized business environment. The core of such courses is an order of indexicality which stresses uniformity and homogeneity, producing an invisible accent that replaces existing ‘foreign’ (i.e. authentic, biographic) accents. It is a new form of commodified dialectology, which differs quite substantially from common state and academic attitudes towards dialects and accents. The procedures used by such private providers are instances of language policing aimed at the infinitely small stuff o…

Nominal Agreement in L2 Speakers of Italian: Suggestions for a Teaching Plan

2021

International audience; This paper addresses the topic of adult acquisition of nominal agreement in Italian, a crucial issue in teaching Italian as Second/Foreign Language. Building on a corpus containing spontaneous and semi-spontaneous production data from two advanced L2-speakers of Italian, I show that nominal agreement can be problematic even in the last stages of the acquisition process. The discussion of the instances of missing agreement in the corpus suggests that these are not due to a missing knowledge of the agreement rules in Italian, but instead on processing and production. In particular, some contexts prove to be more difficult than others: gender agreement (i.e., agreement …

Future language teachers’ pedagogical landscapes during their subject studies

2015

This article examines the experiences, attitudes and perceptions language students have regarding the use of ICT in language teaching. In addition, the article analyses the key characteristics of language students’ pedagogical designs. The data come from a pedagogically oriented subject-studies course that focuses on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the European Language Portfolio. The data, which consist of language students’ reflections and course plans, have been analysed using qualitative content analysis. The findings imply that language students’ pedagogical landscapes reflect their own experiences as learners. Furthermore, the literacy practices in languag…

A Sociocultural Approach to Young Language Learners' Belief about Language Learning

2003

English as a foreign language in Finland

1980

Learning French in the UK setting : policy, classroom engagement and attainable learning outcomes

2019

Due to the contemporary dominance of English as global lingua franca, all other “foreign languages” face a number of challenges in formal education. This paper describes the recent evolution of policy and practice regarding foreign language education in England, with a particular focus on early language learning. Evidence from a classroom study of French as foreign language is used to illustrate primary school instructional practices and children’s engagement in this setting, and their learning outcomes. Conclusions are drawn concerning sustainable approaches to the teaching of languages other than English in the early school years, in an English - dominated linguistic landscape. peerReview…