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Direct linkVekemans, Herlinda – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
In the last few decades the medical community has increasingly underlined the necessity for medical students and healthcare professionals to acquire adequate and patient-friendly medical language and communication skills. Although teachers of foreign languages for medical purposes are usually not medically trained, their learners present them with…
Descriptors: Medical Education, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dijk, Anje; Engelen, Christine; Korebrits, Liesbet – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This article assesses the current trends in language centre (LC) management in the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium. Twenty-five LCs are united under the umbrella of NUT, which offers its members the possibility to meet and discuss concrete professional subjects. Solutions, strategies and decisions emphasise the importance of national…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multilingualism, Language Teachers, Language Proficiency
Van Houtven, Tine; Peters, Elke; Van den Branden, Kris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
In recent years, the student population enrolling in Flemish higher education has become increasingly diverse. Whereas teacher training institutes used to attract mainly students with a diploma of general secondary education, the proportion of students with a technical or vocational educational background has grown substantially over the past ten…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Needs, Needs Assessment
Marchand, Marjan; Vercruysse, Christophe; De Wilde, Lodewijk – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This research project explores the relationship between the French skills taught during the Dutch-speaking professional Bachelor's of Applied Business, the perceived French language requirements for these Bachelor's graduates in the workplace, and the actual French language needs on the work floor. We review the current situation and consider how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Job Skills, Language Skills
Buyse, Kris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
As Van den Branden (2007) has pointed out, since communicative approaches have been setting the agenda in language teaching in Belgium, the assessment of oral language competence has shifted its focus from form (i.e. accuracy of vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics) to communicative language proficiency (successful use of language in meaningful…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
Buyse, Kris – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Teaching foreign language writing often lacks adjustments to the requirements of today's students of the "Internet Generation" (iGen): traditionally teachers set a--not very inspiring--topic, a deadline and then return a discouraging, manually underlined and/or annotated text without systematic labeling. The annotated document is then…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Internet
