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Education and Training Regimes within the Swiss Vocational Education and Training System. A Comparison of the Cantons of Geneva, Ticino, and Zurich in the Context of Educational Expansion
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Gonon, Philipp; Freidorfer-Kabashi, Lena – Education Sciences, 2022
Swiss Vocational Education and Training (VET) is based on national legislation which was introduced in the 1930s and renewed in the 1960s (as well as in the 1970s and in 2002). At first, the goal of the national VET legislation was to further Vocational Education and Training in order to support small and medium enterprises; however, later, it…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Legislation, Geographic Regions
The Impact of Foreign Accent on Credibility: An Analysis of Cognitive Statement Ratings in a Swiss Context
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Stocker, Ladina – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The present paper reports on a study investigating whether the presence of a foreign accent negatively affects credibility judgments. Previous research suggests that trivia statements recorded by speakers with a foreign accent are judged as less credible than when recorded by native speakers due to increased cognitive demands (Lev-Ari and Keysar…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Credibility, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
Dynamic Interaction Patterns of Monolingual and Bilingual Infants with Their Parents
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Gampe, Anja; Hartmann, Leonie; Daum, Moritz M. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Bilingual children show a number of advantages in the domain of communication. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether differences in interactions are present before productive language skills emerge. For a duration of 5 minutes, 64 parents and their 14-month-old infants explored a decorated room together. The coordination of their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Language Policy, Tacit Knowledge, and Institutional Learning: The Case of the Swiss Public Service Broadcaster SRG SSR
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Perrin, Daniel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
"Promoting public understanding" is what the programming mandate asks the Swiss public broadcasting company SRG SSR to do. From a sociolinguistic perspective, this means linking speech communities with other speech communities, both between and within the German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-speaking parts of Switzerland. In the…
Descriptors: Journalism, Language Planning, Action Research, Ethnography
The Impact of Language Policy Issues on Program Development and Management at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Language Center
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Schaffner, Sabina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article explores the impact of language policy issues on program development and management at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich Language Center. Based on the analysis of the language policy approach of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, the article reflects both current practices and policy elements with the help of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Universities, Language of Instruction
Vivre Babel au quotidien (Living Babel Every Day).
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Merkt, Gerard – 1994
A discussion of multilingualism in Switzerland begins with a description of the country's linguistic characteristics. Historical Swiss policy recognizing four official languages, one of which (Romansch) is spoken by very few people, is compared with the current situation in which internal and external migration and multilingualism are common. The…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries