Foreign Language Education Standards: Ukrainian Dimension

Foreign Language Education Policies in Iran: Pivotal Macro Considerations

Foreign Language Education Policy (FLEP) needs to be understood as part of broader educational policies and as situated within overarching social macro plans. In this paper, based on a conception of policy as distinct from goals and objectives, and with a view of the relevant literature, we will present some theoretical guidelines of setting and/or evaluating foreign language education policies...

Bilingual Baby: Foreign Language Intervention in Madrid’s Infant Education Centers: Foreign Language Learning in Infancy

The first years of life represent a unique window of opportunity for foreign language learning. However, key questions are: How much and what kind of foreign language exposure is needed to ignite learning? We conducted a foreign language (English) intervention in four public Infant Education Centers in Madrid, Spain. Intervention children (N = 126, ages 7–33.5months) experienced 18 weeks of dai...

Streaming Video for Enhanced Foreign Language Training in Vocational Education

Streaming video is increasingly recognized as a most effective tool within the field of contemporary and future education. The Austrian SMILE project (SMILE = Streaming Media for Interactive Language Experience) aims at the enhancement of foreign language learning by making use of the streaming video technology. The main component of the SMILE software are video clips, each of which comes along...

Some Trends and Issues in Foreign Language Education

The barrage of new trends and new foci in language teaching and learning can create a sense of unease among language educators, pulling them in many directions, as linguistic, cultural, technical, and educational considerations compete for time and space in their conceptual frameworks. It is a feeling shared by all those who are engaged in second language acquisition (SLA). Indeed, the burgeoni...

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