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Forbidding and Valuing Home Languages -- Divergent Practices and Policies in a German Nursery School
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Zettl, Evamaria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study analyses practices regarding home languages in a nursery school from a multilingual district in Germany, and the language policies and discourses that become visible in these. First, the context is outlined of Early Childhood Education and Care for multilingual children in Germany; then, the concepts of practices, discourses and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Native Language, Family Environment
When International Avatars Meet -- Intercultural Language Learning in Virtual Reality Exchange
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Jauregi Ondarra, Kristi; Gruber, Alice; Canto, Silvia – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual exchange projects have become an effective pedagogical method to support students' development of intercultural language competence. High-immersion experiences in Virtual Reality (VR) may offer an environment which is conducive to developing such competence. This paper reports on a pilot study carried out with two groups of university…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, Computer Simulation, International Educational Exchange
International Student Mobility: Limits of the Current Model
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Hugonnier, Bernard – Higher Education Forum, 2017
Since 2000, the number of students trained abroad has increased 100%. This statistic shows how not only many students but also how future employers value this training. It gives students an additional skill, which can be called "internationality". Accordingly a large number of countries intend to rapidly increase the number of students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Foreign Students, Student Mobility
Managing Understanding through English as a Lingua Franca
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Koblizkova, Andrea – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The paper offers insight into pragmatic aspects of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and potential implications for intercultural communication by presenting the results of research into rapport carried among Czech, English and German university students. The three cultural groups were compared in terms of their cultural independence in rapport…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Official Languages
Multilingualism: A Threat to Public Education or a Resource in Public Education? -- European Histories and Realities
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Gogolin, Ingrid – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Public education systems in Europe were created in the course of the foundation of the 'classical' nation state in the 18th and 19th centuries. Historical analyses show that it was part of their destiny to contribute to the consolidation of the respective states' national self-design. In the 19th century, the myth developed that a nation state is…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Immigration, Monolingualism
Learner Agency and Non-Native Speaker Identity in Pedagogical Lingua Franca Conversations: Insights from Intercultural Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Education
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Kohn, Kurt; Hoffstaedter, Petra – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article discusses insights gained from a case study on telecollaboration for intercultural communication in foreign language school contexts. Focus was on non-native English and German lingua franca conversations between pairs of students (aged 14-16, B1 level) from schools in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. Telecollaboration…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Intercultural Communication