Pedagogical practices for teaching through an additional language in academic contexts

Professional development programmes for teaching through an additional language (English) in higher education have become increasingly established in Northern Europe (e.g. Finland) and increasingly trialled in Spanish-speaking countries (e.g. Spain and Mexico). In order to determine individual levels of competence for managing research and teaching of academic subjects through English, a compe- tence matrix was launched (2019) by the University of Jyväskylä Group (Finland). The matrix is di...

A Computational Measure for the Semantic Readability of Segmented Texts

In this paper we introduce a computational procedure for measuring the semantic readability of a segmented text. The procedure mainly consists of three steps. First, natural language processing tools and unsupervised machine learning techniques are adopted in order to obtain a vectorized numerical representation for any section or segment of the inputted text. Hence, similar or semantically related text segments are modeled by nearby points in a vector space, then the shortest and longest Ham...

Pluriliteracies and LOCIT for CLIL

The paper is meant to describe the potential of the LOCIT (Lesson Observation and Critical incidentTechnique) model in Continuous Professional Development with particular reference to CLIL andPluriliteracies, in line with the latest Council Recommendation on a comprehensive approach to theteaching and learning of languages (2019). The main principles of the Pluriliteracies approachpromoted by the European Centre of Modern Languages in Graz (ECML) will be described as a newinterpretation of CL...

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