The objective of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of the academic poster as a pedagogical resource for the promotion of cross-curricular competences in engineering students. This study has been carried out with the participation of 402 students enrolled in different courses at the School of Design Engineering and the School of Telecommunication Engineering during the 2020-21 academic year. The results are drawn from pre-project and post-project questionnaires exploring the learner’s expectations and overall satisfaction upon completion. The authors also discuss project alignment with a number of cross-curricular competences. Although the degree of satisfaction in general has been slightly lower than the participants’ expectations, it should be noted that a high percentage of them value very positively the usefulness of the academic poster in acquiring cross-curricular competences.
In the last 25 years, the topic of learning strategies has attracted a great deal of interest, quite often to analyse the use first (L1) and second language (L2) learners make of these strategies and how they can be helped to improve strategy knowledge. Although it is true that there has been considerable research on strategies, a smaller number of studies have attempted to explore the strategies that learners use in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) contexts, and even fewer when learning a third language (L3). This article seeks to fill that gap by reporting the findings of an intervention study into reading comprehension among young learners of English as an L3 in a multilingual (Spanish-Basque-English) context in the Basque Country.
Estudios de lingüística inglesa aplicada
In recent years, multilingual practices like mediation and translanguaging have found their way into additional language pedagogy. This is due to the recognition that multilingual language users do not store or use their language in isolation, but rather build up a repertoire in which all languages are connected. Multilingual practices are particularly relevant for university programmes in translation and interpreting in which students are trained to work in multilingual environments in a mediating role. In this article, we will describe the professional demands that TI students have to meet and how multilingual practices can help them to develop towards these demands.
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