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Across Europe there is increasing concern that children from migrant families frequently under-perform in state school systems. The situation makes high demands on nursery and primary teachers whose initial and continuing professional development requires appropriate re-evaluation. The Socrates-Comenius project TESSLA with experts in Estonia, France, Germany, Sweden, Turkey and the UK presents courses that comprise the relevant subject areas: bilingual language acquisition, intercultural and language awareness, language assessment, literacy development and parental involvement. Teacher educators are also provided with a discussion of appropriate methodologies, including problem-based and online learning.
In the present era, one of the most crucial aspects of foreign language education is the development of communicative competence. It enables us to understand and use language correctly, suitably, and well, regardless of our communicative, social, or cultural situation. This book offers an insight into the phenomenon and presents a qualitative inquiry conducted on 4th grade children in Slovakian primary schools, where English is taught as a foreign language. The aim of the study is to explore, understand, and describe communicative competence from a theoretical viewpoint and progress this knowledge into the reality of formal in-school education. A collection of three research methods investigate how communicative competence is regarded, developed, and understood and whether all of its components are perceived as equally important in the education process.
This collection of articles contains the English contributions to the 4th Austrian Students' Conference of Linguistics (Österreichische Studierenden-Konferenz der Linguistik, ÖSKL), which was held in November 2011 at the University of Innsbruck. With this collection, the editors want to make the insights and the knowledge presented at the 4th ÖSKL available in written format to a wider public. The contributions present in this collection are excerpts from PhD as well as diploma theses and se ...
Contains studies and literature of the English language.
Suppl. covers 1971-1975 and additions.