Agata Jagiello-Tondera Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Polandagata.jagiello@wat.edu.pl Abstract Teaching foreign languages, and military vernacular in particular, to officer cadets may pose a challenging task. Facilitating the process of military language acquisition and arousing intellectual and cognitive curiosity through film play an essential role in the cadets’ language learning process. Communication skills are of the…
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Bachelart Alexis, PRCE Aix-Marseille Université, France alexis.bachelart@univ-amu.fr Uotila Suvi, MA and Vuorinen Paula, MA JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland suvi.uotila@jamk.fi, paula.vuorinen@jamk.fi Abstract The ability to communicate in English is a necessity in today’s world. A lot of this communication happens between non-native speakers using English as a lingua franca. To offer our students opportunities to…
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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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