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Pérez-Nieto, Nazaret; Llop Naya, Ares – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This paper shows how Task-Based Learning (TBL) is used to equip second-year Spanish students at Cardiff University for their placements during their year abroad. We present a set of task-based projects embedded within the curriculum to enhance both (1) the competences students have to acquire throughout their degree, and (2) the skills to overcome…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Universities, Study Abroad, Spanish
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Campbell, Caroline – Research-publishing.net, 2017
Assessment is a critical part of teaching and learning so it is important that students are encouraged to engage positively with it. The Institution-Wide Language Programme (IWLP) at the University of Leeds redesigned its model of assessment for modules at upper-intermediate and advanced levels, broadly equivalent to the Common European Framework…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Context Effect
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Moorkens, Joss – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Machine translation is currently undergoing a paradigm shift from statistical to neural network models. Neural machine translation (NMT) is difficult to conceptualise for translation students, especially without context. This article describes a short in-class evaluation exercise to compare statistical and neural MT, including details of student…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Computational Linguistics, Quality Assurance
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Huc-Hepher, Saskia; Barros, Elsa Huertas – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper presents an e-collaboration project involving real-time videoconferencing exchanges between students from the University of Westminster and the Université Catholique de Lille. Students drew on diverse resources, including written quantitative data and first-hand qualitative data in French/English to complete weekly tasks. Follow-up work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, College Students, Intercollegiate Cooperation
Burrell, Lewis P.; Talarico, Robert L. – 1981
The handbook, first of a series of six, is designed to give the school administrator an overview of Project Employability (Ohio), a program to meet the employability needs of low functioning educable and high functioning trainable mentally retarded high school students. Chapter I describes each of six products: Community Job Task Analysis,…
Descriptors: Administration, Curriculum Development, Employment Potential, High Schools
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
Written by a technical committee's industry representatives, state officials, and educators in Oregon, this document lists the skills and knowledge required by employees in travel and tourism occupations. The following occupations are considered: rental representative; service agent; travel agent; bus/tour/driver/guide/sightseeing leader; manager…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Employment Potential, Entry Workers, Hospitality Occupations