Providing practical guidelines for developing and evaluating the 'competencies' at the heart of new language teaching standards in tertiary education, this book includes data from prominent European research projects and fills a major gap in the literature.

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.

Provides research-based guidelines for the practical development and evaluation of competencies Furnishes practical guidance on how to approach, teach, and evaluate competencies in the new Bologna-adapted plans of study Pools the insights of a prestigious set of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from diverse parts of Europe and the U.S.?

Inhalt

Preface .- Introduction and Overview .- Part I: Adapting to a Competency-based Model in Tertiary Education: Necessary Changes in Language Teaching .- 2. From Content to Competency: Challenges Facing Higher Education Language Teaching in Europe .- 3. Adapting to a Competency-based Model in Tertiary Education: Lessons Learned from the European Project ADELEEES .- Part II: Teaching Competencies in Tertiary Language Education .- 4. Competences and Foreign Language Teacher Education in Spain .- 5. Promoting Competency-based Language Teaching Through Project-based Language Learning .- 6. Addressing the Language Classroom Competencies of the European Higher Education Area through the use of Technology .- 7. Teaching Competencies through ICTs in an English Degree Programme in a Spanish Setting .- 8. Exploring Pedagogy for Autonomy in Language Education at University: Possibilities and Impossibilities .- Part III: Evaluating Competencies in Tertiary Language Education .- Competency basedCorrective Feedback in Higher Education Second Language Teaching: Perspectives from Empirical Research and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages .- 10. Assessing Transferable Generic Skills in Language Degrees .- 11. Technologies for Performance-based Assessment .- 12. Teaching and Learning Languages in the Era of Globalisation.