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How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

Needs Analysis of the Important Communicative Features at De La Salle University

Lingua Cultura, 2008
Article analyzed the needs of communicative competence and gather information on the features of communicative competence that are believed to be important by selected foreign graduate students studying at DLSU.
Fenty L. Siregar
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Intercultural competencies of upper secondary learners of French [PDF]

, 2002
This thesis seeks to investigate the question of whether learners of French in the upper secondary sector acquire intercultural competencies which are commensurate with their linguistic competencies, during their two-year preparation for the examinations
Duffy, Sylvia
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Life as an ethnic minority (EM) university student: Comparing mental health challenges among local and international EM students in Hong Kong

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts.
Wang Xinyi, Naubahar Sharif
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing intercultural communicative competence in higher education in the Japanese context: Insights from language learners, practitioners, and public arena

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
Intercultural competence has primarily been conceptualized from a theoretical standpoint mainly by scholars in the U.S. and Europe in academic discourse. Moreover, there is a paucity of attempts to define and model intercultural communicative competence,
Yoko Munezane
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La comunicazione interculturale e l’approccio comunicativo: dall’idea allo strumento

Educazione Linguistica Language Education, 2015
The communicative approach in foreign language teaching claims that the sociocultural context of the communicative event must be considered in order to make communication possible and efficient. Yet, very few scholars in the field of language teaching
Balboni, Paolo E.
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‘Different Courses, Different Outcomes?’ A comparative study of Communicative Competence in English Language learners following ‘Academic’ and ‘International Understanding’ courses at High Schools in Japan [PDF]

, 2010
In Japan, where the traditional focus of English teaching has been on knowledge of a foreign language as a system, increasing emphasis is now being placed on the ability to communicate internationally.
Fraser, Susan Margaret, FRASER, SUSAN,MARGARET   +1 more
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University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview of Chinese Seafarers' Communicative Competence in English-Chinese seafarers' Perspectives [PDF]

TransNav, 2017
The rapid development of technologies and the increasingly strict international shipping regulations help to explain a significant decrease in shipping losses over decades.
Lidong Fan
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The situated professional: Preservice teachers' profiling of globally competent teachers and visions of their ‘possible professional self’

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In response to globalisation, teacher education programmes worldwide are tasked with preparing globally competent teachers (GCTs). Prevailing conceptions of global competence are largely derived from Western‐centric humanistic, neoliberal and transformative narratives, creating a complex landscape for teacher identity formation.
Ji Ying
wiley   +1 more source