journal: Language Learning in Higher Education

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Language Learning in Higher Education

Journal of the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS)

ISSN: 2191-6128

Editors-in-Chief: Carmen Argondizzo, Gillian Mansfield

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Language Learning in Higher Education (LLHE) is the Journal of CercleS, the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education. The Journal deals with the most relevant aspects of language learning and teaching in university contexts. It mainly focuses on the outcomes of research on blended learning, autonomous learning, language assessment, EMI and so many other aspects of professional development, quality assurance and university language policy. Its primary aim is both to disseminate the best results of research activities carried out at University Language Centres and Higher Education Departments as well as to give the opportunity to share ideas among professionals involved in language studies. This aim carries the long-term objective to help increase the quality of language learning and of the so many teaching and learning actions offered by the higher education language community throughout the European academic context and beyond.

Issues include a Special one 10.2 (2020) Enhancing the Role of European University Language Centres: past achievements and future perspectives, the aim of which was to celebrate the 30th anniversary of CercleS (1991-2021). A Webinar was organized in Spring 2021 for this special event. The recording of the Webinar can be found on　http://www.cercles.org.

LLHE 11.1 and 11.2 (2021) include several contributions presented at the XVI CercleS Conference held at Masarik University (Brno) in September 2020. The 2022 Issues (12.1, 12.2) include a special section on Language Education for Sustainable Development and other research articles covering topics related to language learning and activities carried out within Language Centres communities. The 2023 Issues (13.1, 13.2) comprise several contributions, arising from the XVII CercleS Conference, hosted by ReCLes.pt, the Association of Language Centres in Higher Education (Portugal), at ISCAP, the Porto Accounting and Business School (September 2022).

CercleS regularly organizes Webinars that offer the opportunity to discuss topics related to articles published in LLHE. The Webinars feature lively interviews with the authors, Detailed information can be found on the CercleS website　http://www.cercles.org.

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Introduction

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The fascinating world of language teaching and learning varieties

Carmen Argondizzo, Gillian Mansfield

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Research Articles

5. Juni 2023

Aspiring multilinguals or contented bilinguals? University students negotiating their multilingual and professional identities

Hillamaria Pirhonen

Seiten: 5-27

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An increasingly multilingual working life expects university graduates to possess multilingual competences, but at the same time many European students study fewer languages than before. As they learn about field-specific linguistic practices and contemplate their future, university students negotiate their identities as language learners and future professionals. Supporting them in acquiring a multilingual identity would be beneficial as it is a strengthening factor in language learning. Since they study towards a profession, it is likely that students examine language learning from the viewpoint of a working life. From these premises, Finnish social science students were interviewed as a part of a course that supported their readiness to work in multilingual environments. The purpose was to investigate how they negotiated their multilingual and professional identities and how these negotiations intersect. The data was examined from a poststructural perspective, analysing identity negotiations by means of positioning theory. The results show that the students constructed their linguistic identities primarily in relation to English competences, often positioning themselves as “contentedly bilingual”. The data also revealed an “aspiring multilingual” identity negotiation which, however, echoed societal ideologies on language learning rather than describing the students’ internalised beliefs. Students’ certainty of their future profession was often connected to a confidence in speaking English and a critical stance towards the need for multilingual competences. Multilingual identity negotiation was hence connected to prevailing discourses and professional aspirations. The study provides new perspectives on university students’ multilingual and professional identities and suggests pedagogical solutions that can support their development in Higher Education language teaching.

5. Juni 2023

The (im)possibility of breaking the cycle of rippling circularities affecting Australian language education programs: a Queensland example

Adriana R. Díaz, Naomi Fillmore, Marisa Cordella

Seiten: 29-49

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The state of language education in Australia has long been described as paradoxical. Oscillating between periods of increased attention and seeming invisibility, over the last thirty years, the language learning sector has been punctuated by a succession of aspirational declarations and funding injections with little long-term impact on its overall standing. Despite the increasingly multilingual makeup of Australian society, language education at all levels has largely remained stuck amidst monolingualising education policies and alarmist discourses. The latest instance of this paradoxical condition is a fee-reduction incentive for university students to study a language, which, in practice, stands to further weaken the language offerings in many Higher Education institutions. In this paper, we use the imagery of circularities and ripples to explore the challenges facing language education across sectors in Australia. Through data collected in Queensland secondary schools, we discuss how these challenges transcend the traditional delineation of macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of language policy and planning. We argue that challenges go both in circles within the same level (circularity) and flow outwards to other levels (ripples), which include Higher Education. For this reason, siloed approaches to funding and scholarly research contribute to a wicked state of inertia and, ultimately, diminish opportunities to break free from these cycles in the future. We conclude by acknowledging our complicit roles and ethical responsibilities as Higher Education scholars in the perpetuation of these cycles, as but a first step in engaging productively with the possibilities of leveraging these rippling circularities.

5. Juni 2023

Lernen mit LMOOCs im universitären Deutschunterricht: Entscheidungshilfen für Deutschlehrende

Renata Asali-van der Wal

Seiten: 51-63

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Digitale Lernplattformen haben durch die Coronapandemie deutlich an Relevanz gewonnen. Die Hochschulen mussten in kurzer Zeit ihr Angebot komplett auf digitales Lernen umstellen. Dies galt auch für Hochschulen in Jordanien. Einsatzmöglichkeiten für LMOOCs (Language Massive Open Online Courses) für den universitären Unterricht „Deutsch als Fremdsprache“ (DaF) sowie Vorschläge zur Erstellung von Lernvideos und Beispiele für LMOOCs DaF werden präsentiert. Potentiale und Grenzen von LMOOCs für das universitäre Deutschlernen werden erläutert, um eine Entscheidung zur Etablierung eines LMOOCs DaF zu erleichtern.

5. Juni 2023

Enhance sustainability and environmental protection awareness: agency in Chinese informal video learning

Ting Huang

Seiten: 65-87

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Protecting the environment is an important topic. In this study, college Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) students engaged in an agentive process of informally learning the Chinese language and culture by watching The Mermaid , a movie produced in China in 2016, which focuses on sustainability. Informal learning is recognized as one of the most powerful factors in Foreign Language (FL) development (Furlong and Davies 2012). Limited research on informal CFL learning from watching online videos is available (Huang and Lammers 2018). By using key ideas of agency, mediation, and internalization in SocioCultural Theory (SCT), this qualitative case study found that informal video learning from watching The Mermaid was helpful for learning vocabulary, grammar, and cultural values in sustainability topics. By means of semi-structured interviews, observations, recalls, and documents as data, the findings suggest that using real-world movies such as The Mermaid as an environmental sustainability topic had a positive impact on FL education. Demonstrating their agencies, learners engaged in vocabulary, grammar, and cultural value learning. This study offers pedagogical implications for language learning in Higher Education. Language Centers can therefore play a role in engaging campuses in social topics such as environmental protection.

Open Access 5. Juni 2023

Gamification and learning Spanish as a modern language: student perceptions in the university context

Jaume Batlle Rodríguez, María Vicenta González Argüello

Seiten: 89-103

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Gamification is a methodological strategy that has been applied for several years in the field of modern language learning. It is employed primarily to increase students’ motivation by incorporating game elements into an otherwise didactic context. Research into the use of gamification in language teaching has focused largely on characterizing the specific practices involved and on determining the degree of motivation elicited in students. There has been little examination of students’ perceptions of gamification or their assessment of its effectiveness for learning a modern language. This study analyses learner perception and motivation among a group of sixteen university students of Spanish as a modern foreign language following participation in a gamified learning experience. Analysis of the information gathered from student perception questionnaires and non-participant observation indicates that the students perceive progress in vocabulary learning but not in grammatical knowledge. The students also report a high level of motivation for the proposed learning activities due to the possibility of working collaboratively with their classmates. The article concludes with reflections on the relevance and didactic implications of gamification as a methodological strategy in modern foreign language teaching at higher education level.

5. Juni 2023

Seeing innovation from different prisms: university students’ and instructors’ perspectives on flipping the Spanish language classroom

Ana García-Allén, Shelley K. Taylor

Seiten: 105-125

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This article focuses on the implementation of a flipped classroom approach in two different levels of Spanish foreign By foreign language (FL), the authors mean modern language (ML), as strongly suggested by the European Commission. language university courses for beginner and intermediate learners. The flipped classroom approach delivers course content that prioritizes both digital technology and active learning. Despite its potential advantages in the language classroom, empirical research in this area remains limited. The present study addresses the gap by investigating the effects of the flipped classroom approach on Spanish as a foreign language by comparing student attitudes in flipped and traditional classrooms in beginner and intermediate Spanish courses at a university level. Specifically, this research explores the use of the flipped classroom approach in a second language classroom as a way to present grammar content prior to the in-class lesson and compares the results to those of a traditional, lecture-like delivery of the same grammar content. Drawing on data elicited from students and instructors in these course levels, this study investigates student and instructor perceptions, as well as student autonomy, engagement, and achievement through a qualitative lens.

Open Access 5. Juni 2023

Investigating syntactic complexity and language-related error patterns in EFL students’ writing: corpus-based and epistemic network analyses

Nang Kham Thi, De Van Vo, Marianne Nikolov

Seiten: 127-151

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Students’ writing proficiency is measured through holistic and analytical ratings in writing assessment; however, recent studies suggest that measurement of syntactic complexity in second language writing research has become an effective measure of writing proficiency. Within this paradigm, we investigated how automated measurement of syntactic complexity helped distinguish the writing proficiency of students from two Higher Education institutions. In addition, we also examined language-related errors in students’ writing to further indicate the differences in the error patterns of the two groups. Data was drawn from a corpus of 1,391 sentences, comprising 58 texts produced by first-year undergraduate students from Myanmar and Hungary. Automated tools were used to measure the syntactic complexity of students’ writing. We performed a corpus-based analysis, focusing on syntactic complexity, while language-related error patterns in writing were investigated through an epistemic network approach. Findings suggested that the Myanmar students tended to write longer essays comprising simpler sentences, whereas the Hungarian students preferred shorter texts with more complex sentences. Most complexity measures were also found to distinguish the texts produced by the two groups: length of production units, sentence complexity, and subordination indices. An examination of the language-related error patterns revealed statistically significant differences in the error patterns in student writing: errors were found to be more prevalent in Myanmar students’ essays. Implications for enhancing teaching L2 writing in educational contexts are discussed.

5. Juni 2023

Using Google Docs for guided Academic Writing assessments: students’ perspectives

Francesco Screti

Seiten: 153-174

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This paper studies undergraduate students’ perceptions about using Google Docs ® for guided writing of the final assessment in an Academic Writing course at a Higher Education level. Qualitative data have been collected through a Moodle survey and analysed employing Thematic Analysis. The aim is to see if students’ perceptions matched with their teacher’s aims, which were to reduce assessment anxiety toward a new and complex writing assignment such as a Literature Review; help working more effectively and reduce procrastination; and possibly enhance success rate. Results show that overall, students liked the technical features (autosaving, accessibility), the guidelines and examples contained in the template shared, and the role of the teacher as controller and provider of feedback and feedforward. Yet some few divergences between the teacher’s aim and students’ perceptions emerged: some students did not like working on-line, expressed preference for Microsoft Word ® , found the procedure time-consuming or constraining, or even too easy. Most importantly, some students felt stressed about being watched. Therefore, if teachers want to adopt the same procedure, they should make sure they explain as clearly as possible the aims of the use of technology to maximize effectiveness and minimize students’ resistance.

5. Juni 2023

Digital storytelling as practice-based participatory pedagogy for English for specific purposes

Margarida Morgado, Tanja Vesala-Varttala

Seiten: 175-200

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English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers in Higher Education struggle with introducing variation and meaning into courses, while addressing 21st century skills development for global employment markets. Digital storytelling in its many forms constitutes fertile ground for engaging students while learning the specific academic and professional languages for their fields of knowledge, through using English as a lingua franca (ELF). The article presents and discusses a pedagogical framework for digital storytelling (DST) that promotes purposeful learning through EFL in two different contexts, in Portugal and Finland. The framework consists of five storytelling steps: (1) research and audience insight; (2) concept design; (3) scripting and storyboarding; (4) digital production; and (5) publication and engagement. The framework was piloted during the 2021–22 academic year with two first-year Business English classes in Office Management and one second-year ESP class in Tourism Management in a Portuguese Polytechnic as well as with an advanced-level ELF class in International Marketing and Communication in a Finnish University of Applied Sciences. Learning through DST provided students with rich opportunities for engagement and interaction, while also developing their skills in language and communication, storytelling, teamwork, digital literacy, and critical thinking. The DST framework has the potential to promote purposeful learning and empower students as active participants in media culture.

5. Juni 2023

Is individual competition in translator training compatible with collaborative learning? The case of the MTIE Translation Award

Laura Tallone, Sandra Ribeiro, Alexandra Albuquerque

Seiten: 201-211

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In past years, translation education has shifted from a “transmissionist approach” to the unchallenged use of collaborative learning, with extensive recourse to teamwork and Project-based Learning. Students are encouraged to develop their translation and interpersonal skills in collaborative environments, focusing on translation as a process. Throughout this process, mistakes are valued as learning opportunities, and no translated text is seen as an authoritative version to which all others are unfavourably compared. This approach is somewhat at odds with an increasingly competitive job market, in which translators must be capable of autonomous and individual work, and translation is mainly viewed and evaluated as a final product. Although translation workflows involve a growing amount of group effort, translators still need to work alone and take responsibility for their own versions and translation choices. In order to prepare students to become professional translators, the annual Technical and Scientific Translation Award aims not only to give winners visibility before potential employers but also to work as an opportunity for young translation students and graduates to put their skills to the test. This paper focuses on the translation competences activated by the contest, as defined by the Competence Framework produced by the European Masters in Translation Network. It also discusses the potential of this initiative as a motivational tool for translation students and graduates, concluding that individual contests counterbalance the predominance of collaborative activities in the classroom and are therefore a relevant complement to academic training.

Open Access 5. Juni 2023

Tackling the elephant in the language classroom: introducing machine translation literacy in a Swiss language centre

Sara Cotelli Kureth, Elana Summers

Seiten: 213-230

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University students, especially language learners, have increasingly been using machine translation (MT) systems in the last decade and for all kinds of texts, including homework, assignments and exams. This ubiquity does not translate into visibility as few teachers address the subject in class. Several researchers have shown that MT systems, while technically very easy to access and use, are not always employed in a critical manner. They have therefore suggested that users should develop MT literacy skills. As part of a larger Swiss project on digital literacy in university contexts (DigLit), an action research project at the University of Neuchâtel Language Centre (UniNE LC) seeks to investigate whether delivering a 20-min presentation about machine translation in all L2 classes (French, German, English) at the beginning of the semester was sufficient to foster minimal MT literacy in language learners. All LC students were surveyed at the end of the semester. These survey results were compared with those from a survey of Swiss university students carried out in spring 2021 as part of the DigLit project. These results have allowed us to monitor and enhance the teaching of MT literacy skills in our LC.

5. Juni 2023

Institutionalised autonomisation of language learning in a French language centre

Anne Chateau, Nicolas Molle

Seiten: 231-245

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The UFR Lansad (Language centre teaching languages to specialists of other disciplines) was created in 2014 at the University of Lorraine. The process leading to its creation was led by a small number of teachers and researchers, from the pre-existing teams of the previous Lorraine universities (Molle et al. 2019). It is the result of didactic reflection and expertise, which convinced the University board to set up a structure dedicated to foreign language teaching. After several evolutions, the newly-created structure positioned itself as a policy maker in language teaching. Finally, the university board asked the UFR to set up a language training model that could be implemented throughout the institution. This training model involves blended-learning systems that emphasise the concepts of self-directed learning and autonomy and gives a central role to the EDOlang platform and the self-access centres since “part of the research and practice on learner autonomy is situated in self-access language learning settings” (Chateau and Tassinari 2021: 53). After a brief history of the creation of the UFR, the article focuses on this model, inspired by research carried out within the CRAPEL team (Guèly et al. 2021; Holec 2000). It also describes how the model is the result of the dissemination of innovative training courses implemented through action research over the last ten years (Chateau and Zumbihl 2010, 2012; Chateau and Bailly 2021). Furthermore, the paper explains how the institutional recognition of the training framework illustrates the need to promote a strong link between research and training.

Open Access 5. Juni 2023

The story of becoming an autonomous learner: a case study of a student’s learning management

Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová

Seiten: 247-269

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When asked about the impact of language advising sessions that our students attend, they report various positive effects. These sessions are a crucial part of the English Autonomously course at Masaryk University. As they were introduced to support students in their self-regulated learning, they should primarily foster course attendees’ abilities to manage their learning. This paper is based on research on how one-on-one meetings with an advisor function as a pedagogic tool and investigates whether advising sessions contribute to the development of students’ learning management skills by examining a case study of one student’s experiences. The investigation uses data collected from multiple sources – advising session recordings, a student’s self-assessment, and his reflective texts; a feedback form indicating how students perceive language advising is used for triangulation. Since the materials gained were coded and analysed using qualitative methods, their interpretation should enable a proper insight into his language learning, and thus, create a case study. This case study reveals various types of relationships between advising sessions and the student’s various metacognitive subskills, that is, planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning. The study attempts to portray the student’s ability to manage his learning as a dynamic, inter-rational and context-based phenomenon that is perceived and manifested in multiple ways.

5. Juni 2023

The effect of collaborative activities on tertiary-level EFL students’ learner autonomy in the Turkish context

Demet Turan-Ozturk, Cagri Ozkose-Biyik

Seiten: 271-293

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This quasi-experimental study investigates the effects of collaborative activities on tertiary-level EFL students’ learner autonomy in Turkey. To achieve this aim, both quantitative and qualitative data were collected with the help of a learner autonomy questionnaire, index cards filled out by the students, the instructor’s journal, and an interview with the instructor of the experimental group. Two groups of 40 students in total from the preparatory program of a central Anatolian university were appointed as experimental and control groups. The results of the quantitative data analysis revealed that, after the implementation of collaborative activities in three consecutive weeks, there was a statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of their autonomy level; the students in the experimental group scored higher than those in the control group, which implies that they showed more autonomous skills in areas such as motivation, curiosity to learn, risk-taking, problem solving and decision making skills to improve learning. The results of the qualitative data analysis revealed that collaborative activities employed in this study (e.g., problem-solving activity, role-play, games) allowed participants to learn from each other, and gain a sense of responsibility. The overall results suggested that collaborative learning practices could be implemented to help EFL students increase their learner autonomy level. Additionally, curriculum and assessment methods of educational institutions might be revised to include more collaborative activities.

5. Juni 2023

Learner autonomy and English achievement in Chinese EFL undergraduates: the mediating role of ambiguity tolerance and foreign language classroom anxiety

Lilan Chen

Seiten: 295-308

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For Chinese EFL students, learning English has always been a great challenge, and research has shown that cognitive and affective factors increasingly become important issues in the field of foreign language learning and teaching (Naderifar and Esfandiari 2016). This study is designed to investigate the relationship between learner autonomy, ambiguity tolerance, foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and English achievement. It also explores the inner mechanism of the relationship between learner autonomy and English achievement in Chinese EFL undergraduates. A sample of 291 third and fourth grade undergraduates in China was assessed for their levels of learner autonomy, ambiguity tolerance and foreign language anxiety using the Learner Autonomy Questionnaire (LAQ), Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale (SLTAS) and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), respectively. Participants’ scores of the College English Test Band Four (CET-4) were used to measure their achievement in English. The results revealed a link between learner autonomy, ambiguity tolerance, FLCA, and English achievement. Ambiguity tolerance and FLCA mediated the relationship between learner autonomy and English achievement, accounting for 36.58 % of the total effect. These findings suggest a process through which ambiguity tolerance can decrease FLCA and identify the mediating effects of ambiguity tolerance and FLCA in the relationship between learner autonomy and English achievement in Chinese EFL undergraduates. Pedagogical implications of the study are presented and discussed.

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Open Access 5. Juni 2023

Lehre am Sprachenzentrum der UZH und der ETH Zürich: Positionspapier

Sabina Schaffner

Seiten: 309-323

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This activity report This Activity Report is a follow up of reflections and ideas based on a paper by Sabina Schaffner. 2022. Lehre am Sprachenzentrum der UZH und ETH Zurich: Positionspapier. In Anna Maria De Bartolo & Jean M. Jimenez (eds.), Approccio Umanistico e Creativo nella Didattica Universitaria: Riflessioni e Best Practice. Studi in onore di Carmen Argondizzo . Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica Università della Calabria 30, 491-508. Armadillo Editore. is based on teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting reflection on teaching that the Language Center of University of Zurich (UZH) and ETH Zurich initiated. Framed in the context of Higher Education, the report takes into account both the discussion on the future of teaching at UZH, which was launched by the Vice President of Education and Student Affairs for Teaching and Learning, as well as the Language Center’s teaching strategy. In addition, course evaluations at the Language Center in the 2020 Spring and Autumn Semesters, research on digital (language) teaching, recommendations on university didactics, and results of additional international surveys on language teaching in Higher Education during the pandemic are examined. The aim of the report is to strategically define the future of language teaching at the Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich and to identify the fields of action associated therewith. With this detailed report of the activities that we implemented at the UZH Language Center throughout the years, we would like to make a contribution to the (inter)national positioning of university language centers. At a panel organized at the Language Center’s Twentieth Anniversary Conference on 10 June 2022, stakeholders shared their thoughts on the services the Center currently provides and ideas for further developing these services. The stakeholders’ feedback features prominently in this activity report, thereby adding to the impact that the report can have on potential readers.

5. Juni 2023

Communication course for future engineers – effective data presentation and its interpretation during LSP courses

Katarzyna Matuszak, Liliana Szczuka-Dorna

Seiten: 325-340

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This activity report describes a sample unit (Effective Data Presentation) from a communication course prepared as part of an Intellectual Output within the BADGE Project, which was carried out by 12 partner universities from 10 countries during 3 academic years (2019–2022). The article first describes the results of a survey which show that language and communication classes need to integrate more LSP competences so that students become better acquainted with both general and specific language. Moreover, the report analyses and explains the existing practical difficulties for language and subject teachers alike in maintaining a distinction between “knowledge of a subject” and “knowledge of the language of a subject.” Secondly, the report presents a sample from a communication course prepared for engineers encompassing effective data presentation and its interpretation during LSP courses. Finally, the article reflects on the future challenges for LSP teachers and the reasons why academics should integrate professional knowledge and specialist language within the same course.

5. Juni 2023

Dialogic co-creation in English language teaching and learning: a personal experience

Henry Finch

Seiten: 341-348

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This report will discuss the development and implementation of a dialogic co-creation model for English language teaching in the Language Resource Centre at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. The focus of this report will be on the impact of content co-creation and its impact on learner and teacher autonomy in English language learning and teaching. This collaborative, dialogic model draws primarily on principles of dialogism and exploratory talk (ET) and exemplifies a novel, learner-centered method for curriculum development and teaching in Higher Education. This learner-centered perspective advances an in-depth understanding of the relationship between language learner and teacher, content and language integrated learning (CLIL), language for specific purposes (LSP), their respective content boundaries, the role of content expert and the inhibition threshold. Three examples of teaching English to university professors and professional staff using this model will be discussed. The author proposes that such a model could be adapted and scaled into larger student groups, too.

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Editors-in-Chief
Carmen Argondizzo, Università della Calabria, Italy
Gillian Mansfield, Università di Parma, Italy

Assistant Editors
Fiona Dalziel, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Annick Rivens Mompean,Université de Lille, France

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Jean Marguerite Jimenez, Università della Calabria, Italy
Micòl Beseghi, Università di Parma, Italy

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Marco Cappellini, RANACLES
Catherine Chabert, AULC
Thomas Christiansen, AICLU
Ana de Medeiros, AULC
Andreas Hettiger, AKS
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Michael Nelson, FINELC
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Online ISSN: 2191-6128
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Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 15. September 2011
Erscheinungsweise: 2 Hefte pro Jahr