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The Scaffolding Role of Native Speaker Mentors in an Online Community of Foreign Language Learners
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Mariolina Pais Marden; Jan Herrington – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
Providing foreign language students with opportunities to engage in meaningful and purposeful communication and culturally authentic interaction with peers and native speakers is critical to successful second language acquisition and the development of intercultural competence . This paper describes research that investigated how selected native…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Native Speakers
Production of Inflectional Morphology in Intercomprehension-Based Language Teaching: The Case of Slavic Languages
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Saturno, Jacopo – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The present paper investigates the acquisition of L3 Polish by L1 Italian university students of L2 Russian. The participants had never studied the L3 prior to the experiment, but took a meta-linguistically explicit course in Slavic Linguistics focussing on Polish/Russian contrastive grammar. The main research question is whether or not the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Transfer of Training, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Research in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University
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Fenton-Smith, Ben; Walkinshaw, Ian – Language Teaching, 2014
Griffith University is set across five campuses in south-east Queensland, Australia, and has a student population of 43,000. The School of Languages and Linguistics (LAL) offers programs in linguistics, international English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Spanish, as well as English language enhancement courses. Research strands reflect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Linguistics, Departments
The Translation of the Italian Version of the CercleS European Language Portfolio
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Taylor, Christopher – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This article presents the CercleS European Language Portfolio for university students in its translated Italian form. The illustration of the translation process takes inspiration from Rudyard Kipling's poem "I keep six honest serving men" and answers the questions What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who? in explaining how the task was…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Portfolios (Background Materials), College Students
Reflecting on Reflection: Learner Perceptions of Diaries and Blogs in Tertiary Language Study
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Absalom, Matthew; De Saint Leger, Diane – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2011
The use of reflective tasks, such as journals, as a means to enhance learning is not uncommon in higher education. However, the formative value of reflective tasks is not easily reconciled in tertiary settings where assessment requirements traditionally favour product over process. While learner perception and resolution of this tension have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Reflection
The Language Situation in Italy
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Tosi, Arturo – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
This monograph provides an overview of the language situation in Italy, within the framework of language policy and language planning. It presents an account of multilingualism, linguistic diversity, social variation, educational issues and phenomena of language contact both within and outside Italy. The four main threads are (1) the current…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Linguistic Borrowing, Dialects, Linguistics