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Drawing on Students' Diverse Language Resources to Facilitate Learning in a Japanese-English Bilingual Program in Australia
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Turner, Marianne – Language Teaching Research, 2021
Recently, the incorporation of students' home languages into monolingual classrooms has been reinvigorated by a scholarly focus on extended linguistic repertoire. In bilingual programs, ideas of language separation have traditionally influenced teaching and learning as a way to protect the minority language, but there is a growing call to engage…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
Comparison of Chinese and Western English Language Proficiency Measures in Transnational Business Degrees
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Farley, Alan; Yang, Helen Hong; Min, Le; Ma, Shuang – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
This is the first empirical study to examine the comparative predictive power of Chinese national college English language program (CEP), a Western university's English for academic purpose (EAP) language program, a standardised English language proficiency (SELP) test, and business diploma for the academic performance of Chinese students in…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, English for Academic Purposes, Western Civilization, Language Proficiency
Developing Academic Literacy through a Decentralised Model of English Language Provision
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Murray, Neil; Muller, Amanda – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
Students entering English-medium universities frequently struggle to cope with the language demands of their degree programmes, despite having met the English language entry conditions stipulated by their receiving institutions. This can have significant repercussions for the teaching-learning process, for the student experience and for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, College Students
Meeting the Challenges of Heritage Language Education: Lessons from One School Community
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Willoughby, Louisa – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
The heterogeneous backgrounds, languages and proficiencies students bring to the classroom have always been a key challenge facing schools that wish to implement heritage language programmes. In this article I describe the evolution of one high school's approach to heritage language education and some of the roadblocks they encountered in…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Instructional Preferences of Students in Transnational Chinese and English Language MBA Programs
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Bambacas, Mary; Sanderson, Gavin B. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2011
This paper reports on Stage 1 of a learning and teaching project focused on students studying in the Chinese and English language delivery of transnational Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs of an Australian university. The programs are delivered using limited and intensive face-to-face teaching augmented by self-directed and…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Business Administration, Foreign Countries, Internet
Distance-Delivered Tertiary Programs for Indigenous People in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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Epstein, Ruth – 1995
This report is made up of 20 case descriptions of tertiary level distance-delivered educational programs developed specifically for indigenous students in three countries: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Included in each case is a description of the institutions and stakeholders involved in each course or program, history of the initiative,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Cultural Maintenance, Delivery Systems