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Online and elearning
To what extent does teacher talk affect learner talk?
Alexandrina Oliveira
Handout (PDF 1.29 MB)
Collaborative online language learning: how do we develop teacher skills?
Sarah Heiser and Linda Murphy
Presentation (Powerpoint 1.29 MB)
Literature and culture
International languages on film
Catherine Watts
Presentation (Powerpoint 169 KB)
Aquitaine-Europe: language, content and intercultural awareness for learners of French
Tita Beavan
School-HE Partnerships
Teaching and learning languages differently: the Links into Languages/ AchieveAbility project for students with learning differences
David Crabtree
Presentation (Powerpoint 404 KB)
Backwards reading (Word Doc 23.5 KB)
Schools-HEI subject focused partnerships: a learning community?
Renata Albuquerque
Presentation (Powerpoint 100 KB)
Internationalisation
A case study: meeting the pre-arrival needs of discipline-specific international students through the customisation of a free web learning resource
Julie Watson
The role of language programmes in internationalising the curriculum
Andrea Dlaska
Language Centres
From Myth to Release: providing on-demand access to free-to-air broadcast recordings and other resources
Judy Barker and James McKie
Active learning with multimedia – a handbook of good practice
Karin Duffner
Presentation (Powerpoint 6.3 MB)
LanQua
Assuring quality for the teaching of intercultural communication in Europe: perspectives and challenges
Célio Conceição and Sharon Millar
From theory to practice: intercultural competence through language learning
Fionnuala Kennedy
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF) in practice: promises and problems
Alessandra Corda, Bahar Gun and Taina Juurakko-Paavola
Outsourcing language courses and testing: exploring opportunities and meeting challenges
Christine Engelen, Francisco Lorenzo and Maria Giovanna Tassinari
Language teacher education: from diversity to common threads
Ana Artigas, Ingela Valfridsson, Dainuvite Bluma and Deniz Kurtuoglu.
Presentation (Powerpoint 146 KB)
Paradigm shift from knowledge to competences: literature and culture in the context of foreign language learning
Neva Slibar, Orlando Grossegesse & Ingrid Rummo
Quality enhancement in literature and culture
Maria Holmgren-Troy, Ole Helmersen, Ana Gimeno and George Camilleri
Lost in CLIL? Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) across Europe: approaches and quality issues in higher education
Anne Räsänen and Anca Greere
Employability
Foreign language skills of (French) graduates: employers vs the universities?
Gail Taillefer
The CEFcult project: assessing oral proficiency in an intercultural professional context
Inma Álvarez
More than just a linguist… addressing and making explicit the employability of language graduates
Graham Webb
Enhancing students’ experience? An assessment of employability skills within a modern languages degree programme
Maryse Bray and Laurence Randall
Presentation (Powerpoint 4.95 MB)
Virtual learning
Cultural InterFaces: using social network sites to support students on a year abroad
Anouk Lang
Teaching and learning a minority language in virtual classrooms
Hanna Outakoski
Presentation (Powerpoint 15.5 MB)
Research informed teaching
Staging the students - an “apprentice” method of teaching
Jun Pan
Intercultural communication – from research to teaching to research
Robin Cranmer
Presentation (Powerpoint 332 KB)
Teacher education
The REAL network: bringing together language teachers and their professional associations across Europe
Linda Parker
Presentation (Powerpoint 380 KB)
Learn and teach primary Spanish 1: a blended learning approach to upskilling
Neil Hughes
Presentation (Powerpoint 4.4 MB)
Language futures
The Diploma in Languages and International Communication – what could its future be now?
Sharon Czudak
The future for languages in HE
Liz Hudswell and Becky Jennings
Curriculum futures
“Mass customisation”: rethinking language learning for the 21st century
Michael Maerlein
Addressing climate change in the languages curriculum
John Canning
Presentation (Powerpoint 876 KB)
Language for specific purposes
Accommodating diversity: the case of academic reading in German for researchers
John Bellamy
Corpus-based teaching and learning of modern foreign languages for academic purposes
Sylvia Jaworska
Translation
Translation in language teaching: insights from professional translator training
Ángeles Carreres and María Noriega-Sánchez
Presentation (Powerpoint 598 KB)
Translation and technology: reflections on an undergraduate module
David Pollard
Sharing resources online
Inspiring, publishing and adapting: using the HumBox to publish and share teaching and learning content in languages and the humanities
Kate Borthwick and Alison Dickens
LORO (Languages Open Resource Online) - developing an online repository for tutorial resources at the Open University
Christine Pleines
Learning experience
To what extent does teacher talk affect learner talk?
Alexandrina Oliveira
“Sorry, course cancelled.” What do students think of hybrid language learning as an alternative?
Paul Snookes, Jenny Lewin-Jones and Judy Barker
Languages across the curriculum
Presentation of various CLIL-type practices at BA level at the Faculty of Science of the bilingual University of Fribourg in Switzerland
Anca Greere and Anna Liharevschi
L1 use alongside L2 in bi-/literacy development in higher education
Sandiso Ngcobo
Presentation (Powerpoint 848 KB)
Quality assurance and benchmarking
Quality assurance in language centres in higher education in Europe: The Wulkow Group
Thomas Vogel
The European Master’s in Translation project: networking and benchmarking translator training in the EU
Angeliki Petrits
Presentation (Powerpoint 1.14 MB)
Assessment and feedback
Engaging language students in formative online feedback on summative assessment: feeding forward to enhanced performances
Marion Sadoux
Written feedback on language assignments: what students need, what they get and what they make of it
María Fernández-Toro
Fun and games
Laughter - an underutilised method of culture and language integration?
Elizabeth Waters
Presentation (Powerpoint 9.56 MB)
Learning to play/ playing to learn: the place of language learning games at third level
Anne O’Connor
Presentation (Powerpoint 4.65 MB)
Transition
Carrying forward: sixth-form Italian towards university
Elena Polisca
Presentation (Powerpoint 4.99 MB)
Get ready for languages
Vicky Wright
Student experience
MFL students’ voices and reflections on their experience in higher education
Sonia Cunico and Simon Gieve
Presentation (Powerpoint 1.95 MB)
Handout (Word 20.8 KB)
Managing student expectations at Intervals
David Tual and Laetitia Vedrenne
Assessment and progression
Developing speaking assessment scales across languages and levels
Ann Humphry-Baker and Dietlinde Ebeling
How fast can progress in a “difficult” language be?
Rosemarie Stolte