Competency-based Language Teaching in Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction and Overview

   • María Luisa Pérez Cañado

   Pages 1-18

3. Adapting to a competency-based model in tertiary education: Necessary changes in language teaching

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. From Content to Competency: Challenges Facing Higher Education Language Teaching in Europe

      • Ian Tudor

      Pages 21-32

   3. Adapting to a Competency-Based Model in Tertiary Education: Lessons Learned from the European Project ADELEEES

      • María Luisa Pérez Cañado

      Pages 33-59

4. Teaching competencies in tertiary language education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Competences and Foreign Language Teacher Education in Spain

      • Daniel Madrid Fernández, Stephen Hughes

      Pages 63-75

   3. Promoting Competency-Based Language Teaching Through Project-Based Language Learning

      • Melinda Dooly

      Pages 77-91

   4. Addressing the Language Classroom Competencies of the European Higher Education Area Through the Use of Technology

      • Greg Kessler, Paige D. Ware

      Pages 93-105

   5. Teaching Competences Through ICTs in an English Degree Programme in a Spanish Setting

      • Barry Pennock-Speck

      Pages 107-118

   6. Exploring Pedagogy for Autonomy in Language Education at University: Possibilities and Impossibilities

      • Manuel Jiménez Raya

      Pages 119-138

5. Evaluating competencies in tertiary language education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Competency-Based Corrective Feedback in Higher Education Second Language Teaching: Perspectives from Empirical Research and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

      • Kent Löfgren

      Pages 141-149

   3. Assessing Transferable Generic Skills in Language Degrees

      • María José Terrón-López, María José García-García

      Pages 151-167

   4. Technologies for Performance-Based Assessment

      • Marta González-Lloret

      Pages 169-183

   5. Teaching and Learning Languages in the Era of Globalisation

      • Karen M. Lauridsen

      Pages 185-189

6. Back Matter

   Pages 191-194

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Spanning the divide between the theory and praxis of competency-based teaching in tertiary language education, this volume contains invaluable practical guidance for the post-secondary sector on how to approach, teach, and assess competencies in Bologna-adapted systems of study. It presents the latest results of prominent European research projects, programs of pedagogical innovation, and thematically linked academic networks. Responding to a profound need for a volume addressing the practical aspects of the newly designed language degrees now being rolled out across Europe, this essential contribution pools the insights of a prestigious set of scholars, practitioners, and policy makers from diverse parts of Europe and the US. It will inform crucial decisions about instituting and evaluating competencies in a new generation of language studies programmes.  ​

• Assessing transferable generic skills in language degrees
• Bologna-adapted plans of study
• Challenges facing higher education language teaching in Europe
• Competency-based teaching in tertiary language education
• European Higher Education Area
• European project ADELEEES
• European research projects
• Higher Education
• Language teacher education in Spain
• Technologies for performance-based assessment
• learning and instruction

• Granada, Spain

  María Luisa Pérez Cañado

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