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Designing and Implementing Virtual Exchange -- A Collection of Case Studies
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Helm, Francesca, Ed.; Beaven, Ana, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual exchange is gaining popularity in formal and non-formal education, partly as a means to internationalise the curriculum, and also to offer more sustainable and inclusive international and intercultural experiences to young people around the world. This volume brings together 19 case studies (17 in higher education and two in youth work) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Youth Programs
Practical Approaches to the Teaching of Reading in Finland.
Alahuhta, Eila – 1977
This study examines the relationship between preschool children's speech abilities and their basic abilities (perception, powers of reasoning, and spatial orientation), providing insights into what teaching methods and materials can be useful for basic reading instruction in Finland. Results, gathered by ranking 100 preschoolers according to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
On the Primary Factors Affecting Linguistic Ability in Pre-School Children.
Alahuhta, Eila – 1977
This study tested the hypothesis that children with weaker speech ability have greater difficulties in perception, powers of reasoning and spatial orientation than children with better speech ability, and assessed the value of Apgar scores as a predictive measure of later linguistic disorders. Subjects were 100 children born in 1970 who attended…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Auditory Perception, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Discourse Analysis: Openings. Paper Presented at a Workshop on Discourse Analysis (Jyvaskyla, Finland, October 18-19, 1985). Reports from the Department of English, University of Jyvaskyla, No. 9.
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Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1987
Topics covered in papers presented at a Finnish workshop on discourse analysis include, in English: the situational code in conversation; persuasive strategies and face-work in impromptu speech; historical aspects of complex behavioral strategies in politeness; the implications of predictability and unpredictability for negotiation discourse; and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Essays, Foreign Countries, High School Students
On Errors Made by Finnish-Speaking and Swedish-Speaking University Students in Oral Production in French.
Elo, Anja – 1985
A study of the interlanguage of bilinguals and multilinguals compared the oral French proficiency of 20 native Swedish-speaking and 20 Finnish-speaking university students as evidenced in error patterns in oral tests. With the exception of phonological and phonetic errors in pronunciation, errors were classified by word class (article, noun,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Intercultural Communication in Foreign Language Education. Research Reports A:168.
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Yli-Renko, Kaarina – 1993
A study examined the oral language skills needed in a second language to communicate effectively with native speakers. The first part of the study is an analysis of the concept of oral intercultural communication proficiency, particularly as an objective of language instruction. The second part of the study consisted of a survey of native speakers…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis