TY - JOUR
T1 - Benchmarking Modern Languages in UK Higher Education
T2 - Insights from the Language Teaching Community
AU - McNeill, Arthur
AU - Sporing, Marion
AU - Hartley, Linda
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The SCOTLANG-based research project on modern languages benchmarking in the post-compulsory sector investigated aspects of the highly sensitive and politicised issue of benchmark standards in modern languages. This article looks at the results of focus-group discussions held with higher education practitioners in Scotland at a time when the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) had initiated its first languages subject group consultations in order to set up language degree standards for the whole of the UK higher education sector. It lists a number of ideas voiced by practitioners, both in support of and against benchmarking, but concludes that, in general, there is a positive outlook towards benchmarking and standardisation.
AB - The SCOTLANG-based research project on modern languages benchmarking in the post-compulsory sector investigated aspects of the highly sensitive and politicised issue of benchmark standards in modern languages. This article looks at the results of focus-group discussions held with higher education practitioners in Scotland at a time when the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) had initiated its first languages subject group consultations in order to set up language degree standards for the whole of the UK higher education sector. It lists a number of ideas voiced by practitioners, both in support of and against benchmarking, but concludes that, in general, there is a positive outlook towards benchmarking and standardisation.
U2 - 10.1080/09571730485200181
DO - 10.1080/09571730485200181
M3 - Article
SN - 0957-1736
VL - 30
SP - 12
EP - 18
JO - Language Learning Journal
JF - Language Learning Journal
IS - 1
ER -