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Argondizzo, Carmen; De Bartolo, Anna Maria; Fazio, Alessandra; Jimenez, Jean M.; Ruffolo, Ida – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
At the start of 2000 a new scenario emerged in Europe thanks to the Council of Europe and the European Commission who, in support of the Bologna Process (1999), laid the foundations for disseminating the value of multilingualism and multiculturalism. The aim was to create a framework of actions to make citizens more aware of respecting diversity…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Higher Education, Resource Centers, Language Laboratories
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Critchley, Mark; Wyburd, Jocelyn – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we explore how language centres can and need to seize the initiative in matters of internationalisation, language policy and supporting a multilingual and multicultural institutional environment. We identify and explore a number of challenges and opportunities, using the situation in the United Kingdom as our example, demonstrating…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
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Seferian, Marie-Alice – System, 1976
This article describes an experiment conducted at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Romance Languages with first-year students. It was concluded that the language laboratory could best be employed to improve aural comprehension and to permit a more direct approach to contemporary French civilization. (Text is in French.) (Author/POP)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Language Instruction, Language Laboratories
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Holmes, Glyn – Modern Language Journal, 1980
Discusses the reasons for growing disenchantment with the language laboratory and introduces a novel approach to advanced listening comprehension exercises based on recordings of professional entertainers. Analyzes the sketches as examples of authentic discourse, as illustrations of different speech registers and regional variants, and as vehicles…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Audiotape Recordings, Cultural Awareness, French
Fryer, T. Bruce, Ed.; Medley, Frank W., Jr., Ed. – 1986
Selected papers from the 1984 and 1985 meetings of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching include: "Perspectives on Proficiency: 1985"; "Developmental Stages in Functional Language Proficiency"; "Cultural Understanding, Oral Proficiency, and Study Abroad: Getting It All Together"; "Developing Functional…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Kitao, Kenji; Kitao, S. Kathleen – 1995
The collection of papers on the teaching of English as a second language includes: "Teaching English in Japan"; "Reading and Evaluating Quantitative Research"; "Transformational Generative Grammar and Language Teaching"; "Process and Social Aspects of Writing: Theory and Classroom Application";…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics
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Coreil, Clyde, Ed.; Napoliello, Mihri, Ed. – Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1996
Articles address a variety of ways in which imagination can be used to enhance second language teaching and learning. They include: "Multiple Intelligences and Second Language Acquisition" (Mary Ann Christison); "Spellbound in the Language Class: A Strategy of Surprise" (Gertrude Moskowitz); "The Imagination: Where Roles…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Broadcast Television, Class Activities, Classroom Communication