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Saville, Nick – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This paper focuses on educational policy and language learning in compulsory education in the European context, and suggests how multilingualism can be addressed more effectively. The wider policy landscape has influenced language education in Europe over the past 25 years, in particular through the policies of the Council of Europe and the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Nenno, Nancy P. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2019
Striving to be more representative in their answer to the question, "What is German," many programs are expanding their curricula to include the history and perspectives of Black Germans and Austrians. Through discussion of a course on "Die afrikanische Diaspora im deutschsprachigen Europa," this article argues that examining…
Descriptors: German, Guidelines, Rating Scales, Second Language Learning
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Kassis-Henderson, Jane; Cohen, Linda; McCulloch, Rosalind – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
Recent research demonstrates that operating effectively across boundaries is more complex than traditional essentialist models in cross-cultural studies suggest. The authors present a teaching model that leverages this research and moves away from static comparative models of intercultural interaction. Using self-reflexive and analytical…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
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Bailey, Angela; Gruber, Alice – The EUROCALL Review, 2020
This mixed method case study explored globalization and complex relationships through a virtual exchange project between students from Germany and Colombia in upper intermediate level English classes. We believed by providing a space for online conversation, written collaboration and discussion, students would enhance their plurilingual and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Cebron, Neva – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The paper presents the core aims and objectives of the teaching materials developed within the IEREST (Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers) project, and shows how the innovative approach adopted for these activities can be implemented in the classroom. The IEREST teaching modules are innovative in that the…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Komorowska, Hanna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
The author analyses tendencies presented in recently launched EU reports claiming that newly published data reveal a need to rethink approaches to individual and social multilingualism. In the first part of the article approaches to individual as well as to societal multilingualism are discussed from a historical perspective. In the second part…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning