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Jeoffrion, Christine; Marcouyeux, Aurore; Starkey-Perret, Rebecca; Narcy-Combes, Marie-Françoise; Birkan, Ilker – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
The study aims to highlight the representations that university students have about plurilingualism, in order to research how they can develop plurilingual competences in an essentially monolingual French academic setting. It is based on a survey of 684 students enrolled in two foreign language programmes across two year levels (first and fourth…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning
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Starkey-Perret, Rebecca; Narcy-Combes, Marie-Françoise – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
This contribution gives an account of the results of an action research in which a task-based plurilingual programme was implemented with postgraduate students of Foreign Languages and International Business. Using a mixed-methods approach, combining questionnaire, interview and observation data, we sought to explore the degree to which the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning
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Ransdell, Sarah; Barbier, Marie-Laure; Niit, Toomas – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
Previous research has shown that individual differences in working memory (WM) are highly predictive of a wide range of cognitive behaviours. Until recently, research has focused on monolingual, or undifferentiated, populations. The present research compares metacognitive awareness, as measured by self-ratings of reading, writing, speaking and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Language Skills, Memory, Monolingualism