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Koshiba, Kenta – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This paper explores the role that translation may play in developing the symbolic competence of advanced-level bilingual learners. To this end, it examines how a group of bilingual learners engaged with a translation task that was assigned to them as part of their study in an advanced-level Japanese language class at an Australian university.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Japanese, Advanced Courses, Second Language Learning
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Hains-Wesson, Rachael; Ji, Kaiying – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
For higher education graduates to be effective in the workplace, they require strong technical skills and the capability to operate across diverse knowledge landscapes to solve real world problems. At an Australian university, an interdisciplinary, short-term study tour programme was utilised to enhance students' inexplicit employability skills…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Employment Potential, Teamwork, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Rafieyan, Vahid – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
Attitude toward accepting target language culture or maintaining heritage culture referred to as acculturation attitude can determine language learners' pragmatic gains during an educational sojourn. To this end, the current study investigated the relationship between language learners' acculturation attitudes during an educational sojourn and the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Acculturation, Correlation, Second Language Learning