In the Danish Folkeskole (primary and lower secondary school) and teacher education, increasingly plurilingual student populations call for responsive plurilingual pedagogies in teacher education. This paper explores second-order didactics in plurilingual teaching combined with task-based and playful approaches in the English and French teacher education at University College Copenhagen. (pdf)

Engelskan breder ut sig, så även bland barnen i förskolan. I enkäten om barns språkutveckling uppger sju av tio lärare i förskolan att barnen ganska eller mycket ofta använder engelska ord och uttryck. Men är det bra eller dåligt? "Vissa barn vet exempelvis vad gaffel och kniv heter på engelska, men inte på svenska", säger…

Nivåskillnaderna i elevernas engelskkunskaper är stora i svenska klassrum – vilket skapar utmaningar för helklassundervisande lärare. Jenny Bergström och Carina Tångring vid Uppsala universitet vill underlätta dessa utmaningar med ett nytt stödmaterial.

he use of English is extensive and normalized in many areas of Norwegian society. This article examines its role in Norwegian vocational education and training (VET), exploring how teachers and students view the use of English and English-language materials, and how their language environment impacts students’ learning opportunities. (pdf)

In the Danish Folkeskole (primary and lower secondary school) and teacher education, increasingly plurilingual student populations call for responsive plurilingual pedagogies in teacher education. (pdf)

This study used a pre- and post-test intervention design, supplied with post-test interviews, to investigate to what extent an English foreign language lesson plan focusing on communication (in)directness and face would improve students’ intercultural competence. (pdf).

This study explores the type and frequency of extramural English (EE) (e.g. reading, speaking and gaming) and relationships between EE activities and performance on a standardised English reading comprehension (ERC) test in a sample of young adults, with a particular focus on potential sex differences and online gaming as an EE activity. (pdf).

 In two design cycles, the article shows the application of the design principles in English learning – a domain commonly associated with motivational challenges – by implementing and evaluating a gamified PCA. The results show that the design principles significantly foster learners' motivation and that learners perceive a solid language learning experience, expressed by higher…

Whether teachers in English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts possess adequate English skills to teach in their disciplines is widely debated in internationalized higher education. From such debates emerges the assumption that EMI teachers’ approach to teaching is associated with their level of English proficiency; crucially, however, empirical evidence of such a connection is missing.

While learning activities and text production in language subjects typically include multiple forms of multimodal expression, assessment in the subjects continues to a great extent to depend on students’ written texts. As a contribution to an increasing call for alignment of curricular activities and assessment, this article explores an approach to assessment of upper secondary…

Femåringar som konsumerar mycket digitala medier på engelska får sämre språkförmåga på svenska. Det visar ny forskning från Linköpings universitet. Därför borde debatten handla mer om innehållets kvalitet och språk än om skärmtid, menar forskarna.