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In an effort to teach critical thinking skills to interpreting students, our

educational interpreting program has stopped providing direct feedback

on their interpreted work. We believe that independent practitioners

need to be skilled at self-assessment rather than relying on external ratings

of performance; thus, for the last 2 years, I have taught and then

graded students on the efficacy of their self-assessment of their own

work. To assess this change, I analyzed the Educational Interpreter Performance

Assessment (EIPA) ratings of students who received direct

feedback and those who learned to self-assess. The findings indicate that

the students who were taught …

This PhD thesis seeks to investigate foreign language curriculum planning, design and development in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The languages of focus are English and Spanish. The course curriculum documents are taken from the First Cycle programmes in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC). Through a mixed methods approach and purposive sampling, the English and Spanish curriculum documents (75) of four Portuguese state universities will be subject to content analysis to see how closely they are aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) (Council of Europe, 2001) and to the generally accepted principles of curriculum design and development …

While previous research into writing conferences and tutorials has found that sessions with non-native speakers of English (NNSs) differ from those with native speakers of English (NSs), these studies using conversation analysis have tended to approach conferences through more qualitative methodologies. This thesis builds upon and enriches these previous studies by incorporating more of a quantitative analysis through the use of corpus linguistics to systematically analyze the frequency with which particular grammatical devices that express the attitude of the speaker, otherwise known as stance, and power are used and how these frequencies may vary within a specific set of NS …