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Learning How to Learn Languages: A Transformative Learning Approach to Empower Effective Language Learners. A Practice Report
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Susana A. Eisenchlas; Kelly Shoecraft – Student Success, 2024
This practice report describes a 12-week stand-alone course designed to address the challenges university students face in foreign language classes. Adopting principles of transformative language learning, course content, activities and resources were designed and implemented to dispel myths and preconceptions regarding language instruction,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Asian Language Learning at a Distance in Australia.
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Waites, Carol – Babel: Australia, 1993
Presents a background to the main issues concerning Asian language learning at a distance at tertiary level and in industry in Australia. Also reports on the development of the course, "Communicate in Japanese: A Self-Study Course," at the Institute of Languages. Describes the benefits of distance education learning as a means of…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Distance Education
Semi-Autonomous Study Groups.
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Hogan, Christine – International Journal of Educational Management, 1999
Innovations in the teaching and learning strategies used in an organizational-behavior course developed for the business school of Curtin University of Technology (Australia) are detailed. Faculty (n=18) and students (n=800) involved in the course-development process were organized into semi-autonomous study groups and learned to cope with group…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Conflict Resolution