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Multimodal Linguistic Biographies of Prospective Foreign Language Teachers in Germany: Reconstructing Beliefs about Languages and Multilingual Language Learning in Initial Teacher Education
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Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia; Chik, Alice – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
Linguistic biographies have been increasingly used in language and teacher education, even if mainly in a written form. In this study we analyse 33 visual linguistic biographies, using drawings to examine the (re)constructions of the multilingual self. The visual linguistic biographies were produced by prospective Spanish language teachers at the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Exploring Metalinguistic Awareness in L3 Phonological Acquisition: The Case of Young Instructed Learners of Spanish in Germany
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Kopecková, Romana – Language Awareness, 2018
In the field of third language acquisition metalinguistic awareness is posited to be a fundamental component of multilingual competence and a key factor facilitating the acquisition of additional languages. Building upon Bialystok's model of attention and control, and Wrembel's research into metaphonological awareness in adult L3 learners, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness, Language Acquisition
Professional Competencies in Language Learning and Teaching
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Goria, Cecilia, Ed.; Guetta, Lea, Ed.; Hughes, Neil, Ed.; Reisenleutner, Sandra, Ed.; Speicher, Oranna, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This volume examines many of the complex issues regarding the language skills and professional competencies acquired by students studying Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) at universities in the United Kingdom and across Europe. It also outlines the innovative pedagogical strategies, methods, and resources employed by language academics to help…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Language Teachers
Communicative Competences and the Use of ICT for Foreign Language Learning within the European Student Exchange Programme ERASMUS
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Gomez, Jose Ignacio Aguaded; Vicente, Cristina Pozo – European Educational Research Journal, 2011
This article presents the results from a mainly statistical and comparative analysis regarding the communicative competences and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) of German exchange students. The data was extracted from two exhaustive, rigorous and methodical questionnaires related to communicative and ICT competences,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis