Review: Changing Philologies: Contributions to the Redefinition of Foreign Language Studies in the Age of Globalisation

2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-343
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Studies

Challenges of Foreign Language Teaching and Sustainable Development Competence Implementation in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balčiūnaitienė Asta ◽  
Teresevičienė Margarita
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
Language Classes

Abstract The article aims to emphasize the role of foreign language teaching in fostering sustainable development competence in higher education. Foreign language classes enable students to analyze actual topics about sustainable development, to discuss problems, to share personal emotions and experiences. English as a foreign language curriculum aims to build students’ basic language communicative skills with the focus on sustainability, communication for the enhancement of sustainable development competence. The present paper aims to analyze the correlation of sustainable development competence between English as a foreign language studies in the system of higher education. The article overviews the importance of the sustainable development competence development on the theoretical level as well as introduces the practices of the importance of sustainable development competence elements in foreign language classes on the empirical level. The research was planned and performed in 5 universities of Lithuania, in which the respondents studying English (average age of participants was 22 years old) expressed their opinions on the sustainable development topics and usefulness of sustainable development competence. The results of the research demonstrate that students are more engaged in topics and materials on sustainable development and it is challenging for pedagogues to constantly update their materials, to apply innovative English as a foreign language teaching strategies related to sustainable development in foreign language classroom. Therefore, the research findings with the embedded elements for sustainable development competence development encourage educators to search for innovative ways of English as a foreign language teaching in higher education.

Investigating relationship between fluid and crystallised intelligence and vocabulary size in students learning French as a foreign language

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11912
Author(s):  
Seyyedeh Soudeh Mirsaeedghazi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
French Language ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Reasoning Test ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Correlation Result ◽  
Iranian Students ◽  
The Relationship

In this study, the relationship between fluid and crystallised intelligence and vocabulary size was investigated among Iranian students learning French as a foreign language. Studies emphasised on the importance of vocabulary size and language comprehension and tried to discover mental and intelligence factors related to this issue. To administer the present quantitative study, the Persian Adaptation of Baddeley’s (1968) Grammatical reasoning Test for Fluid Intelligence, Persian Test of Baghaei & Tabatabaee (2015) for Crystallised intelligence, and Nation’s (2012) Test of Vocabulary Size were instrumented. Population of the study was 100 intermediate learners of French language from three branches of Safir institute in Tehran. Data was analysed using SPSS and correlational tools to specify the variables correlation. Result showed that there is a significant relationship between crystallised intelligence and size of vocabulary (p<0.1), while there was no significant relationship between fluid intelligence and vocabulary size (p>0.5). It was concluded that fluid intelligence does not predict learners’ vocabulary size, but crystallised intelligence as grows gradually determines learners’ vocabulary size.

Washington Insider

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 923
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
International Education ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Federal Programs ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
Higher Education Act ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Education Act

After five years of discussions and extensions, Congress has passed and the president has signed the first reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) since 1998. Although most of the HEA deals with federal student aid, the legislation also includes many federal programs affecting colleges and universities, including support for international education and foreign language studies and graduate education. The new law also has a number of provisions reflecting some of the policy controversies affecting higher education.

scholarly journals The Influence of Attitude on Autonomous Foreign Language Studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-114
Author(s):  
Alvyda Liuolienė ◽  
Regina Metiūnienė
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The Individual

The article presents the results of some researches on formation of positive attitude as the basis for the individual enriching of the language. The pedagogical process should cover 5 levels in order to assure the regulation of attitudes formation: 1) cognitive; 2) affecting; 3) connotative; 4) regulating; 5) ascertaining. The results of the experiment are presented in a table what gives the possibility to evaluate the present-day attitudes towards the studies of foreign languages and pedagogical-psychological mechanisms of their formation. Students present the positive attitude towards foreign language studies. They would like to expand their vocabulary and mark that more than 40 % of studies should be devoted to lexis. Having conducted an experiment, it could be stated that 40 % of respondents from the experiment group developed a more positive attitude towards learning a foreign language and defined that they feel pleasure in learning it while at the beginning of the experiment only 8 % of students defined this variable.

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