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PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE FOR SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION INTO THE LABOUR MARKET

2019

Good knowledge of a foreign language is an important factor contributing to the professional recognition and career prospects. In order to improve professional foreign language competence, the study of the situation in professional foreign language teaching and learning was carried out in three business sectors: logistics, transport, service industry. The survey was carried among three target groups: employers, foreign language teachers and students. Employers were asked to name language skills which employees need most to perform work, to express an opinion on the role of employers in the English language learning process as well as to identify topics, most common words, phrases, or specif…

Technology’s aid to learning and learners with differerent learning styles : Pupils’ assessment

2009

 Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli lähteä selvittämään erilaisten oppijoiden käsityksiä teknisten apuvälineiden käytön hyödyllisyydestä heidän oppimiselleen. Tutkimuksessa etsitään vastauksia muun muassa seuraavanlaisiin kysymyksiin: Mitkä ovat oppilaiden omat kokemukset siitä kuinka teknisten apuvälineiden käyttö opetuksessa hyödyttää heitä parhaiten? Mitkä apuvälineet ovat toimivimpia ja millä tavalla he kokevat hyötyvänsä niiden käytöstä? Lisäksi tutkimuksessa sivutaan kysymyksiä siitä, miten erilaisten teknisten apuvälineiden käyttö ottaa erilaiset oppimistyylit huomioon sekä miten se hyödyttää erilaisia oppijoita. Tutkimus pyrkii myös selvittämään, vastaako oppilaan oppimistyyli hänen omia…

Teacher Educators’ Professional Identity in English-Medium Instruction at a Finnish University

2021

Publisher Copyright: © 2021, University of Ljubljana. All rights reserved. Although different forms of English-medium instruction (EMI) are being recognised, the different ways in which EMI can impact the pedagogical activities and expertise of higher education educators have received less attention. Using face-to-face and written interviews with nine teacher educators at a Finnish university, this study examines the most important aspects teacher educators perceive in their work through EMI and how these aspects connect to the understanding of their professional identity. The study is theoretically premised on the interconnected concepts of pedagogical doing, pedagogical being, pedagogical…

Pedagogia Nowego Człowieka ks. Franciszka Blachnickiego

2016

INSEGNANTI CAPOVOLTI. LA METODOLOGIA DEL FLIPPED TEACHING NELLA CLASSE DI LINGUA

Creating and implementing a didactic sequence as an educational strategy for foreign language teaching

2013

Este texto gira en torno a una secuencia didáctica (SD) realizada durante el curso 2011-2012, en un grupo de 6º de primaria en la escuela pública Jaume I ''El Conqueridor'' de Catarroja, Valencia (España), en el área de Enseñanza de lengua extranjera (inglés). Tuvo por objeto familiarizar a los estudiantes con la escritura de textos expositivos. Una serie de estrategias pedagógicas (redundancia de vocabulario, familiaridad con las ideas presentadas, y el uso de una hoja de control que potenciase la autonomía del alumnado) se pusieron en práctica para que el desarrollo de los talleres se experimentase como un proceso cohesionado, unitario y coherente. El diseño final de la SD logró un equili…

English as an object and tool of study in classrooms: Interactional effects and pragmatic implications

2005

Abstract This paper analyses classroom discourse in Finnish EFL classrooms where English is the object of study and content-based (Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)) classrooms where non-language subjects are taught in English. The students in both groups are Finnish teenagers. Approaching the data from a discourse-pragmatic perspective, the paper investigates how these two settings compare with each other in terms of local practices of using English. In particular, attention is paid to how both choices between English and Finnish and ways of using English reflect the way participants perceive and construct their social relationships in the classrooms. The findings show differ…

A pluriliteracies approach to content and language integrated learning – mapping learner progressions in knowledge construction and meaning-making

2015

Over the past decades content and language integrated learning (CLIL) research has predominantly focused on the language proficiency of CLIL learners. The results are very promising and show that working language skills in learners, especially reading and listening skills, can be improved through a CLIL programme. Studies focusing on subject learners are still few but they indicate that learners maintain or under certain conditions can improve their subject learning when compared to learners learning in L1. However, more recent studies have raised challenging questions concerning academic language competence which indicate that CLIL instruction may not be reaching its full potential. Unrave…

Current approaches to orthography instruction for spanish heritage learners: an analysis of intermediate and advanced textbooks

2015

As it is well known, heritage learners of Spanish have an advantage on oral production and aural comprehension over L2 learners. However, due to their lack of formal instruction in Spanish, their linguistic weaknesses lie on their literacy skills (reading and writing). In terms of writing skills, students mainly struggle with orthography issues (accentuation and spelling) and larger literacy skills (e.g. developing a thesis or organizing ideas). However, there is an important gap in the literature regarding orthographic acquisition since most of the research in the field on focus on form instruction has predominantly been on grammar acquisition (Anderson, 2008; Montrul and Bowles, 2008; Pot…

Matter, Literacy, and English Language Teaching in an Underprivileged School in Spain

2020

This article analyzes the processes and findings of a collaborative action research (CAR) project that aimed to analyze the potential of materiality to radically transform the way English was taught and learned in an underprivileged public school in Spain. The CAR drew on new materialisms and new literacy studies to explore the relationship between matter and English language teaching from socioeconomic, sociocultural, and technological perspectives. The main pedagogical strategy consisted of widening the quantity and quality of the material resources in the English classroom, precisely to draw a material link between the English classroom and the students' homes, communities, and the infor…