Mag.Dr. Marlene Miglbauer University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Austria marlene.miglbauer@fhwn.ac.at Tuula Kotikoski Senior Lecturer JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland tuula.kotikoski@jamk.fi Urn-address: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:jamk-issn-2343-0281-2 Abstract This paper discusses the results of a survey of about 160 students at two tertiary education institutions in Austria and one in Finland against the background of teaching the…
Continue readingLanguage assessment for tertiary institutions: How can the Cambridge English Scale help?
Gillian Horton-Krueger Head of Assessment Services Northern Europe Cambridge English Language Assessment, UK Horton-Krueger.G@cambridgeenglish.org Arek Jaworski Head of Marketing Northern Europe Cambridge English Language Assessment, UK Jaworski.A@cambridgeenglish.org Urn-address: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:jamk-issn-2343-0281-3 Abstract The Cambridge English Scale is a range of scores used for reporting the results of Cambridge English exams. It is built on our existing results…
Continue readingDevelopment of intercultural communicative competence awareness tools and teaching material for Languages for Specific Purposes courses
Dr. Miguel Ángel Candel-Mora Department of Applied Linguistics Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain mcandel@upv.es Dr. Inmaculada Tamarit-Vallés Department of Applied Linguistics Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain itamarit@upv.es Urn-address: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:jamk-issn-2343-0281-7 Abstract Research on language teaching of larger global lingua francas like French, Spanish or English emphasize the need to consider cultural diversity and intercultural communicative competence…
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Reet Soosaar Lecturer in English, MA University of Tartu, Pärnu College, Estonia reet.soosaar@ut.ee Urn-address: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:jamk-issn-2343-0281-8 Abstract High youth unemployment is the challenge facing today’s young people. Many universities feel the need to prepare students for a new reality and try to facilitate the process of acquiring entrepreneurial skills. This article sets out to emphasize the…
Continue readingTourism and foreign language teaching: Podcasts for listening comprehension as key to success
Klaus Pfatschbacher Lecturer for French, PhD University of Applied Sciences IMC-FH Krems, Austria klaus.pfatschbacher@fh-krems.ac.at Urn-address: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:jamk-issn-2343-0281-10 Absract Our workshop addresses the following questions: How can a lecturer apply podcasts for listening comprehension in class? How can students benefit from this approach? In how far does podcast listening comprehension relate to student-centered and competence-oriented learning (based…
Continue readingSome organization forms of out-of-class activities while learning foreign languages in the technical higher education institution
Galina Chernenko Senior Lecturer the Syktyvkar Forest Institute, Russia Ksenia Chukileva Senior Lecturer the Syktyvkar Forest Institute, Russia chukileva_k@mail.ru Urn-address: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:jamk-issn-2343-0281-13 Abstract The article is devoted to the increasing role of out-of-class work while learning foreign languages in a technically oriented higher education establishment. In the article the definition of the independent work, its forms (individual,…
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