Shifting the Balance: promoting autonomy and self-reflection in ESP

Barbora Chovancová and Štepánka Bilová Masaryk University Language Centre, Brno, Czech Republic barbora.chovancova@law.muni.cz, stepanka.bilova@law.muni.cz Abstract The modern trend in language teaching emphasises the need to develop skills that enable students to become self-sufficient in their future life with a foreign language. We describe two different learning situations in which learner autonomy is promoted; the first being…

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Students’ use of English outside the classroom and its impact on teaching the four skills: a best practice example of an online writing project

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…

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