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Learning a /through a foreign language in higher education
| dc.contributor.author | Morgado, Margarida | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vicente Gómez, Luís | |
| dc.contributor.author | Calvete, Marcelo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-11T13:07:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-11T13:07:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are allegedly preparing students for a globalized working area where people will need to be ready to communicate effectively in one or more foreign languages in international working environments, which puts a lot of pressure on how foreign languages (FL) are learned in Higher Education (HE). Methods: This article explores how a FL or learning through a FL could be approached in HEI, focusing mainly on what employers claim in terms of skills of recent graduates or on-the-job workers. Case studies are used, combining interviews to employers and questionnaires to HE students to find out their perceptions on FL learning requirements for greater employability. Conclusions: A series of recommendations are made for HEI on how to promote students’ employability skills; on the best practices for the development of intercultural communicative competence and FL skills to communicate effectively in international or digitally-mediated working environments; as well as on how to prepare the teaching staff for emerging trends that involve using a FL as medium of instruction or CLIL, a content and language integrated approach. These testify to the importance of learning a FL or through a FL, as well as the need to combine transversal skills development in connection to FL learning. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.29352/mill0209.04.00226 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/5536 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Instituto Politécnico de Viseu | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://revistas.rcaap.pt/millenium/article/view/16250 | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Foreign languages in Higher Education | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | intercultural communicative competence | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | employers’ perceptions | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | students’ perceptions | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | CLIL | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Learning a /through a foreign language in higher education | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Viseu | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 58 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 9 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 51 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Millenium | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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