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Learning a /through a foreign language in higher education: employers’ and students’ perceptions
| dc.contributor.author | Morgado, Margarida | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gómez Garcia, Luis Vicente | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaspar, Marcelo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-23T12:49:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-23T12:49:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are allegedly preparing students for a globalized working area where people will need to be ready to communicate effectively in one or more foreign languages in international working environments, which puts a lot of pressure on how foreign languages (FL) are learned in Higher Education (HE). Methods: This article explores how a FL or learning through a FL could be approached in HEI, focusing mainly on what employers claim in terms of skills of recent graduates or on-the-job workers. Case studies are used, combining interviews to employers and questionnaires to HE students to find out their perceptions on FL learning requirements for greater employability. Conclusions: A series of recommendations are made for HEI on how to promote students’ employability skills; on the best practices for the development of intercultural communicative competence and FL skills to communicate effectively in international or digitally-mediated working environments; as well as on how to prepare the teaching staff for emerging trends that involve using a FL as medium of instruction or CLIL, a content and language integrated approach. These testify to the importance of learning a FL or through a FL, as well as the need to combine transversal skills development in connection to FL learning. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | MORGADO, M., GÓMEZ GARCIA, L. V. & CALVETE, M. (2019). Learning a /through a foreign language in higher education: employers and students’ perceptions. Millenium, 2(9), 51-58. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.29352/mill0209.04.00226 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | ISSNe (versão electrónica•electronic version)1647-662X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/8351 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (IPV) NIPC – 680033548 Centro de Estudos em Educação, Tecnologias e Saúde Unidade de I&D do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://revistas.rcaap.pt/millenium/article/view/16250 | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Foreign languages in Higher Education | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Intercultural communicative competence | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Employers’ perceptions | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Students’ perceptions | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | CLIL | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Learning a /through a foreign language in higher education: employers’ and students’ perceptions | pt_PT |
| dc.title.alternative | Aprender (n)uma língua estrangeira no ensino superior: perceções de empregadores e alunos | pt_PT |
| dc.title.alternative | Aprender una/ en una lengua extranjera: percepciones de empleadores y alumnos | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 58 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 9 (2019): Serie 2, n.º 9 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 51 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Millenium. Journal of Education, Technologies and Health | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | n.º 9 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Morgado | |
| person.familyName | GÓMEZ GARCÍA | |
| person.familyName | Calvete Gaspar | |
| person.givenName | Margarida | |
| person.givenName | LUIS VICENTE | |
| person.givenName | Marcelo | |
| person.identifier | V-8230-2017 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | C017-F4B7-A539 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-3651-3030 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-9623-3989 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-3153-6468 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 57200908830 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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