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Salla-Riikka Kuusalu; Päivi Laine; Minna Maijala; Maarit Mutta; Mareen Patzelt – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore how university language students evaluate different sustainability themes and examine the overall relevance of ecological, social, cultural and economic sustainability dimensions in language education. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire was designed to study Finnish university language students' (n =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Modern Language Curriculum, Second Language Learning
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Jean Costa-Silva – Hispania, 2024
This study investigates the efforts towards promoting the decolonial teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language in instructional materials adopted in early Portuguese courses at higher education institutions in the United States. A framework for qualitative analysis of course materials, textbooks, and syllabi was designed based on Zavala's…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Decolonization, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials
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Plutino, Alessia; Cervi-Wilson, Tiziana; Brick, Billy – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper reports on the rationale for the implementation of a pilot project using a scenario-based Virtual Reality (VR) resource, originally developed by Health Sciences at Coventry University and now being repurposed for Italian language learning as a collaborative project with Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Health Sciences, Italian, Second Language Learning
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Long, Sheri Spaine; Derby, LeAnn; Scharff, Lauren; LeLoup, Jean W.; Uribe, Daniel – Dimension, 2015
The ACTFL [American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages] 21st Century Skills Map (2011) proposes incorporating "leadership and responsibility" into language learning (LL). This study offers a foundational framework for combined LL and leadership development (LD) and contains a snapshot of the presence of LD in the language…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Second Language Instruction, Modern Language Curriculum, Feedback (Response)
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García-Sánchez, Soraya – The EUROCALL Review, 2012
This article aims to analyse different ubiquitous learning (u-Learning) platforms used when learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) as part of the Modern Languages Degree at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). The combination of face-to-face lessons with multimedia content and digital mediated learning allows today's native…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, English (Second Language)
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Quintero, Josefina C.; López, Margarita M.; Zuluaga, Carmen T. C. – International Education Studies, 2013
This article discusses the final results from a research work which aimed to identify the pedagogical processes that emerge from the autobiographies that modern languages trainee teachers at the University of Caldas write. These autobiographies become a starting point to develop their teaching practicum, and are considered to be of great…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Trainees, Modern Languages, Modern Language Curriculum