“lingua community” - lingua 1 projects - EACEA

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate-General for Education and Culture
Vocational training
Language policy
Brussels, January 2003 – ISSUE NO. 1
“LINGUA COMMUNITY”
- LINGUA 1 PROJECTS WELCOME…
to a new magazine for Lingua!
“Lingua Community” gives
Lingua project co-ordinators
the opportunity to describe
their work in their own words.
It is aimed at anyone who is
interested in Lingua, but
particularly at people who are
partners in Lingua projects or
who are thinking of applying
for a Lingua grant in the
future.
This issue features fifteen
Lingua 1 projects. Ten of
these started work towards the
end of 2001, while the other
five projects began in or
around October 2002. The
newsletter will expand to
include new projects as they
are selected.
The projects described here
reflect the diversity of actions
possible within Lingua 1.
They range from language
clubs to multilingual websites
to radio campaigns. But these
are only a few of the many
types of project that can be
funded under Lingua 1.
Imaginative
ideas
to
promote language teaching
and learning are always
welcome!
We hope that “Lingua
Community” will encourage
the exchange of ideas and
experiences between partners
in Lingua projects, but also
that it will inspire others to
develop and submit their own
ideas.
2001 PROJECTS
hyperlinket, og nettstedet fylles
opp med informasjon, lenker og
materiale. I 2003 vil vi legge inn
oppgaver til tekstene, lydfiler,
artikler og illustrasjoner, og i
tillegg vil vi utarbeide en håndbok
i hvordan bruke nettstedet. I
2003 vil vi også konsentrere oss
om evaluering og publisering av
resultatene fra prosjektet.
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SIGURD-prosjektet ønsker å øke
oppmerksomheten rundt de
germanske språkene i Europa,
ved å påpeke de språklige
likhetene
mellom
norsk,
nederlandsk/flamsk, tysk, svensk
og engelsk. SIGURD inneholder
også en introduksjon til platttysk. Vi håper at brukere av
germanske
språk
vil
bli
nysgjerrige på og motiverte til å
lære andre germanske språk, i
hvert fall på overlevelsesnivå.
The SIGURD project will
encourage
speakers
of
a
Germanic language to increase
their awareness of the linguistic
similarities
between
the
Germanic languages: initially
Norwegian,
Dutch/Flemish,
German, Swedish and English (in
addition to a Low Saxon
component). Such awareness, it is
hoped, will make learners more
receptive to and able to learn
Germanic languages other than
their own, at least on a survival
level.
Hovedaktiviteten i prosjektet er å
benytte eventyr og andre tekster
med hyperlinkede oversettelser til
å understreke likhetene mellom
språkene. Nettstedet skal fungere
som en ressursbase for lærere og
studenter, ved å tilby tekster,
lenker og informasjon knyttet til
emnet germansk språk og
historie.
The main activities are to use
fairy tales and other texts (with
hyperlinked
translations)
to
highlight links between these
languages. The web portal is
envisaged as a publicity and
resource base for teachers and
students, providing links and
material related to the topic of
Germanic linguistics and history.
Prosjektet er i full gang. Elleve
germanske tekster er oversatt og
The eleven Germanic texts have
been hyperlinked and the website
SIGURD
is filling up well with input, links
and material. In 2003 we will
provide exercises, sound files,
articles and illustrations, in
addition to creating the guide on
how to use the SIGURD web
portal.
Dissemination
and
evaluation will also be main
activities in 2003.
Website:
http://www.statvoks.no/sigurd
Partner countries: Belgium,
Germany, Netherlands, Norway,
Sweden
Project co-ordinator:
Grethe Haugøy
VOX
P.O. Box 6139
Etterstad
N-0602 Oslo
tel: +(47) 23 38 13 00
fax: +(47) 23 38 13 01
e-mail: [email protected]
JOY FLL
Целта на проекта е да
информира
хората
на
пенсионна
възраст
за
предимствата
и
възможностите, които им дава
изучаването на чужд език като
ги мотивира да учат заедно със
своите внуци (на възраст
между 6-12 години). Първият
етап на проекта акцентира
върху разпространение на
информация и разработване
на нова методология за
изучаване на чужд език, която
да се възползва от връзките
между двете поколения, като
мотивира
и
двете
към
съвместни дейности. Тя също
разчита на въвеждането на
елементи,
основани
или
включващи езикови игри,
което прави процеса на
обучение забавен и интересен.
Въз основата на проучвания на
езиковите умения и нагласи за
чуждезиково
обучение
в
партньорската мрежа, екипът
на проекта започна работа за
разчупване на създадените
стереотипи в обществото
относно кой може и трябва да
учи чужд език. Новата
методология се прилага вече в
3 клуба и 8 езикови групи от
баби и дядовци (главно баби)
на възраст между 50 и 75
години. Майките изразяват
желание и съжаление, че те не
са включени в проекта.
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The objective of the project is to
raise grandparents’ awareness of
the advantages of learning a
foreign language by motivating
them to learn together with their
grandchildren (mainly aged 612). The first stage of the project
focused
on
spreading
information about language
learning and developing a new
methodology
for
studying
foreign languages by the target
group. The methodology takes
advantage
of
the
intergenerational
relationship
between these two groups, each
motivating the other to learn
through shared activities. It also
introduces ways of learning that
have elements of, or are based
on, games, thus making them
realise that they can really enjoy
the process of learning a foreign
language.
Based on snapshots of the
foreign language skills of the
target group, and networking
with foreign language teaching
institutions, the project team
started a process of breaking
stereotypes in public opinion
about who can and should learn
foreign languages. Three pilot
clubs
have already been
established, involving 8 groups
of grandparents (mainly grandmothers), with participants aged
from 50 to over 75. Mothers
expressed their desire to
participate and regret that they
have not been included in the
project.
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Website:
http://www.JoyFLL.net
Partner countries: Bulgaria,
Greece, Portugal, Spain
Project co-ordinator:
Maria Stoicheva
Znanie Association
1 Pozitano Square
BG-1000 Sofia
tel: +(359) 2 987 4950
fax: +(359) 2 987 4950
e-mail: [email protected]
C.A.F.A.L.L.
Rakennamme
yhdessä
isobritannialaisen, kahden suomalaisen ja kreikkalaisen partneriston yhteistyössä Lingua 1
C.A.F.A.L.L. projektia niin, että
sisällön tuottaminen perustuu
ensisijaisesti partnereiden olemassa olevaan monipuoliseen
asiantuntijuuteen kielten oppimisen ja opettamisen hyvistä
käytännöissä sekä aiempaan kokemukseen projektitoiminnasta.
Hyödynnämme
partnereiden
tietoa ja osaamista siitä, kuinka
sosiaaliset ja demografiset tekijät
tulisi
huomioida
kielten
opiskelun tavoitettavuuden lisäämiseksi sekä ihmisten rohkaisemisessa kieltenopiskeluun.
Projektissa
testaamme ja
analysoimme eri tapoja kielten
opiskelua estävien tekijöiden
ylittämiseksi
ja
tuotamme
kokeilun pohjalta hyviä, toimivia
käytänteitä yhteiseen käyttöön ja
eurooppalaiseen levitykseen.
Vaikka partnerit Suomesta,
Kreikasta ja Walesista sijaitsevat
kukin omalla Euroopan reunallaan, olemme löytäneet monia
yhtäläisyyksiä kielten opiskeluun
vaikuttavista esteistä, joita pyrimme vähentämään projektilla
tuottamalla uusia hyviä käytäntöjä ja tiedottamalla kielten
oppimisen mahdollisuuksista.
Olemme valinneet testaamista
varten olemassa olevia hyviä
kielten opettamisen käytäntöjä,
jotka
arvioimme
yhteisellä
kriteeristöllä.
Arvioimme myös opetusohjelman suunnittelemisen ja esitystavan vaikutusta sekä merkityksellisyyttä siinä, kohdataanko
opiskelijoiden tarpeet ja saavutetaanko oppimistavoitteet.
Erityisen
tärkeänä
olemme
kokeneet toimijoiden verkottumisen tarpeen kansallisesti ja
kansainvälisesti. Näin saadaan
lisää vaikuttavuutta ja tietoa
tämän ja muiden vastaavien
projektien tuloksista ja voidaan
tehokkaammin vaikuttaa myös
kielikoulutuksen
koulutuksen
rahoituspäätösten
tekijöihin
laajalla foorumilla.
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The C.A.F.A.L.L. project brings
together a British, a Greek and
two Finnish partners. It involves
the pooling of their different
experiences in terms of knowhow and of good practices in
learning and teaching languages,
as well as their previous
experience of project management.
We have benefited from the
knowledge and expertise of the
partners, concerning the way in
which social and demographic
factors should be taken into
account in order to increase our
ability to reach specific groups of
people, as well as how to
encourage pupils to learn
languages.
In the project, we test and
analyse different ways of
overcoming the factors that
prevent
the
learning
of
languages. On the basis of these
tests, we produce good and
realistic practices for common
use and for distribution at
European level.
Although the partners from
Finland, Greece and Wales are
located in very different corners
of Europe, we have found many
similarities
regarding
the
obstacles that prevent the
learning of languages. We aim to
reduce these obstacles through
the production of good practices
and by informing the public
about the opportunities of
learning languages.
For our tests, we have chosen
existing good practices that we
evaluate according to common
criteria. We also evaluate the
importance of how learning
programmes are planned and
presented, and whether students’
needs and learning targets are
met.
In our experience, the need for
networking, at both national and
international level, is especially
important. This enables us to
increase the effectiveness and
raise awareness of the results of
this and similar projects, and to
help influence the wider debate
on factors affecting language
learning.
Website: Partner countries: Finland,
Greece, United Kingdom
Project co-ordinator:
Päivi Korhonen
Adult Education Centre of
North Karelia
Kaislakatu 3
FIN-80130 Joensuu
tel: +(358) 13 244 2542
fax: +(358) 13 244 2307
e-mail: [email protected]
EURO-LANGUAGES
NET
Europos kalbų tinklas yra
kuriamas
siekiant
padėti
europiečiams mokyti(is) rečiau
vartojamų Europos kalbų. Dėl
globalių interneto galimybių šis
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tinklas bus prieinamas visame
pasaulyje. Jau dabar Europos
kalbų tinklo projekto svetainėje
lankosi svečiai iš Japonijos,
Australijos, JAV.
Neseniai
buvo
sukurtos
vienuolikos
šalių
kalbų
nacionalinės svetainės. Šiose
svetainėse
bus
pateikiama
informacija,
kur
Europoje
Europoje žmonės galės mokytis
ir išmokti rečiau vartojamų
Europos kalbų, tokių kaip
suomių, italų, portugalų, bulgarų,
estų, vengrų, lenkų, rumunų,
lietuvių, slovakų ir vokiečių,
pristatoma geroji darbo patirtis,
kalbų mokymo ir mokymosi
resursai, taip pat šiuolaikinės
mokymo(si)
ga-limybės,
pavyzdžiui, nuoto- linio mokymo
programos.
Projektas prisidės prie žmonių
informuotumo, didins įsidarbinimo galimybes, skatins tarpusavio bendradarbiavimą. Atsivers naujos galimybės neįgaliesiems bei toliau nuo išsivysčiusių centrų gyvenantiems
žmonėms.
2004-siais metais Lietuvoje vyks
tarptautinė konferencija tema:
,,Geroji mažiau vartoja-mų
Europos kalbų
mokymo ir
mokymosi patirtis naudojan-tis
“Europos
kalbų
tinklu”
daugianacionalinėje ir daugiakultūrėje Europoje”.
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Euro Languages Net is designed
to create an Internet resource of
less
widely-used
European
languages for the general public.
Thanks to the global reach of the
Internet, information provided
by this network will be accessible
to the world. Indeed, visitors
from Japan, Australia and the
USA have already shown an
interest in the project.
11 national sites have recently
been launched. These sites will
provide
information
about
where in Europe the general
public can learn less widely-used
European languages, including
Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish,
German, Hungarian, Italian,
Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese,
Romanian and Slovakian.
High quality best practices and
language learning and teaching
resources, as well as new
language learning possibilities
such as distance learning
programmes, will be presented.
The project will raise awareness
of learning other languages in
terms of employability, mental
stimulation and social interaction. It opens up new
possibilities for disabled learners,
and those who are not able to
attend classes in person because
of geographical constraints.
de langue (public cible 2). Plus
de 350 questionnaires ont été
sélectionnés puis encodés et
nous terminons cette phase en
janvier 2003.
Parallèlement, nous sommes déjà
dans la phase 2 (la dernière) qui
consiste à cibler le public 1, c’est
à dire des adultes et jeunes
adultes peu qualifiés (jeunes en
rupture scolaires, immigrés qui
arrivent, etc.) qui seront
principalement intéressés par
notre site Web. Quand nous
aurons suffisamment d’adresses
postales pour ce public 1, nous
leur enverrons (en avril 2003) le
support
publicitaire
(carte
postale avec l’adresse du site)
que nous avons créé en octobre
2002.
Partner countries: Austria,
Bulgaria,
Estonia,
Finland,
Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Slovakia
En novembre dernier, nous nous
sommes réunis pour la troisième
fois, à Bratislava, pour discuter
des modifications à réaliser sur le
site et préparer la phase 2 de
ciblage du public 1. Notre
dernière réunion aura lieu en
juillet 2003 à St Jacques de
Compostelle pour faire le bilan
des deux années de travail et
préparer l’avenir du site. En
effet, nous permettrons alors à
toute institution offrant des
cours de langue de s’inscrire sur
le site, moyennant une analyse
du questionnaire qu’elle aura
complété.
Project co-ordinator:
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In 2004, a conference on “Best
Practices in Learning Less
Widely-Used Languages in a
Multicultural and Multinational
Europe with Euro Languages
Net” will be organised in
Lithuania.
Website:
http://www.euro-languages.net
Egle Slenotiene
Public Service Language Centre
39/6 Vilnius Street
LT-2000 Vilnius
tel: +(370) 5 212 03 84
fax: +(370) 5 2 12 03 70
e-mail: [email protected]
EUROBUS
L’équipe du projet EUROBUS
est en train de terminer la phase
1 de son projet: mettre sur un
site Web (élaboré la première
année, 2002) les institutions et
organismes proposant des cours
The EUROBUS project team is
in the process of completing
phase 1 of its project, by placing
on a website (developed during
2002) the names of institutions
and organisations that offer
language courses (“target public
2”).
More
than
350
questionnaires
have
been
selected and encoded, and this
phase is due to be completed in
January 2003.
At the same time, we have
already progressed to phase 2
(the final phase), which involves
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the targeting of “target public 1”,
i.e. adults and young underqualified adults (young people
who have left school, recentlyarrived immigrants, etc.), who
will mainly be interested by our
website.
When
we
have
sufficient postal addresses for
this group, we will send them (in
April 2003) the advertising
material (a postcard with the
address of the site) that we
created in October 2002.
Last November, we met for the
third time, in Bratislava, to
discuss the modifications to be
carried out to the site and to
prepare phase 2 of the project.
Our final meeting will take place
in July 2003 in Santiago de
Compostela to take stock of the
two years of work and to prepare
the future of the site. Indeed, we
will then allow any institution
offering language courses to
register on the site, following an
analysis of the questionnaire that
it will have to have submitted.
Website:
http://www.eurobus-lingua.net
Partner countries: Belgium,
Finland, France, Netherlands,
Slovakia, Spain
Project co-ordinator:
Laurence Wéry
Université de Liège
Place du 20 août, 7
B-4000 Liège
tel: +(32) 4 366 5520
fax: +(32) 4 366 5855
e-mail: [email protected]
ALME NETWORK
Le projet “ALME” vise à la
promotion de la diversité
de l’apprentissage des langues
européennes en milieu scolaire et
universitaire en Europe, et
notamment des langues moins
enseignées. L’objectif est triple:
identifier les (et s’addresser aux)
décideurs en matière de grandes
orientations concernant les
divers
systèmes
éducatifs
européens;
collecter
tous
types
d'informations
traitant
des
approches innovantes pour
apprendre les langues vivantes,
en particulier les langues rares;
diffuser cette information par
différents médias (site Web, CDroms, conférences, journaux de
liaison, organismes pédagogiques, etc.).
A cet effet, le projet s’est doté
d’un serveur particulier sur
lequel sont actuellement collectés
et mis en réseau tous les
exemples de bonnes pratiques à
la
fois
politiques
et
méthodologiques
dans
le
domaine de la diversification de
l’offre linguistique en Europe. Le
site Web du projet doit collecter
de la même façon toutes les
informations sur les ressources
existantes
en
matière
d’enseignement en contexte
scolaire des langues rares, dans le
cadre de la classe ou en autoapprentissage.
Un événement-clé du projet est
l’organisation les 7-9 avril 2003 à
Dijon
d’un
colloque
“Promouvoir l’apprentissage des
langues européennes moins
enseignées:
politiques
et
méthodologies”, qui réunira plus
de 200 participants, usagers,
chercheurs, décideurs autour de
70 personnalités politiques et
scientifiques des pays européens.
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The “ALME” project aims to
promote diversity in learning
European languages at school
and university level, and
particularly
lesser
taught
languages. Its goals are threefold:
to identify and approach
decision-makers in charge of the
various European educational
systems;
to collect data on innovative
approaches to language teaching,
notably
in
lesser
taught
languages;
CENTRE
NETWORK
to disseminate the collected data
through various media, such as
websites, CD-roms, conferences,
newsletters, pedagogical organisations, etc.
Welcome – Willkommen –
Bienvenue – Bienvenido –
Добре дошли – Welkom –
Merhba – Benvinguts –
Καλωσήλθατε – Wëllkomm –
Tervetuloa – Velkomminn –
Vítejte – Dobrodošli –
Bemvido… to the Language
Resource Centre (LRC) project.
With this objective in mind, a
dedicated server has already been
set up to collect examples of
good practice in the field of
linguistic
diversification
in
Europe and to list existing
resources for teaching those
languages. In the same way, the
project’s website will collect
existing
information
about
teaching lesser-used languages,
be it within the context of the
classroom or of self-learning.
In the LRC project, we aim to
improve and develop support
for language teaching and
learning by sharing expertise
between
established
and
emerging LRCs. The consortium
brings together 16 LRCs from
13 European countries. Our
partners cover all sectors of
education (from primary to adult
education) and come from many
different linguistic, geographical
and institutional settings.
A key event in the project will be
the colloquium on 7-9 April
2003 on “Promoting and
Learning Modern European
Languages:
Policies
and
Methodologies”. This will take
place in Dijon and will involve
over 200 participants, among
whom will be decision-makers,
researchers, scholars and endusers, including around 70
politicians and scientists from
across Europe.
Since 2001, we have been
exchanging our experiences and
expertise related to all aspects of
setting
up,
running
and
expanding LRCs. We are
currently preparing to share what
we have learnt with those
outside the project in the
following ways:
Website: http://lingua.fc-tic.net
Partner countries: France,
Greece,
Italy,
Lithuania,
Portugal, Romania
Project co-ordinator:
Rémi Poutot
IUFM de Bourgogne à Dijon
Rue Charles Dumont, 51
F-21000 Dijon
tel: +(33) 3 80 67 64 67
fax: +(33) 3 80 67 09 53
e-mail: [email protected]
LANGUAGE
RESOURCE
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writing a practical manual for
anyone interested in or involved
in running a LRC: “The LRC
handbook: guidelines for setting
up, running and expanding
Language Resource Centres”.
This publication will be available
from April 2003, in print in 4
languages (English, French,
Greek and Spanish), and downloadable from the LRC portal in
16 languages (Bulgarian, Czech,
Dutch,
English,
German,
Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Letzebürgesch,
Maltese, Slovenian and Spanish,
as well as Catalan and Galician);
building a multilingual project
website, which will be available
on-line for at least 2 years after
the end of the funded phase of
the project;
discussing issues related to any
aspect of setting up and running
LRCs
in
the
electronic
discussion forum on the LRC
portal.
We are keen for the results of
the LRC project to reach as wide
an audience as possible. You are
warmly invited to visit the LRC
portal to find out more about
the project, and to register your
interest so we can let you know
as soon as the LRC Handbook is
available.
Website: http://www.lrcnet.org
Partner countries: Austria,
Bulgaria,
Czech
Republic,
Finland,
Greece,
Hungary,
Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta,
Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain,
United Kingdom
Project co-ordinator:
Philippa Wright
Centre for Information on
Language Teaching & Research
20 Bedfordbury
UK-London WC2N 4LB
tel: +(34) 91 468 1208
fax: +(44) 207 379 5082
e-mail: [email protected]
EPA “LANGUAGE
CLUBS”
Le projet EPA “Clubs Langue” a
bien démarré en Allemagne,
Espagne et France et plus
difficilement en Irlande. Dans un
premier temps des documents de
référence
(un
document
méthodologique destiné aux
enseignants
et
un
guide
contenant un document de
cadrage et des fiches acteurs) ont
été élaborés avec la collaboration
d’un formateur-expert, permettant aux associations de parents et
aux écoles de mettre les clubs sur
pied. Dans un deuxième temps,
les enseignants du cours de
langue des élèves ont participé à
une journée de formation dans le
but de se familiariser avec une
méthodologie spécifique propre
à l’adulte en situation de
communication et d’apprentissage.
Cinq écoles par pays organisent
des Clubs Langue dont l’objectif
est de permettre aux parents de
se familiariser avec une langue et
une culture étrangère en même
temps que leurs enfants. Priorité
a été donnée aux écoles
primaires, étant donné qu’il
devait s’agir d’un premier
contact avec une langue
étrangère pour les élèves, et à
une variété de langues pour
éviter des clubs exclusivement en
anglais.
Jusqu’à présent les échos sont
très
positifs.
Parents
et
enseignants se rendent compte
des bénéfices que représente la
participation à un tel projet qui
vont
bien
au-delà
d’un
apprentissage linguistique (ouverture sur le monde, meilleure
collaboration
famille-école,
meilleur suivi de l’enfant, etc.) et
souhaitent échanger avec leurs
homologues dans les différents
pays participants.
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The EPA “Language Clubs”
project has got off to a good
start in France, Germany and
Spain and, with some difficulty,
in Ireland. As a first step,
reference documents (a methodology document intended for the
teachers and a guide containing
guidelines and actors’ sheets)
were developed, with the cooperation of an expert trainer, to
enable the parents’ associations
and schools to set up the clubs.
Subsequently,
the
pupils’
language teachers participated in
a one-day training session in
order to familiarise themselves
with a methodology specific to
the adult learner.
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Five schools per country are
organising Language Clubs,
whose aim is to allow parents to
become acquainted with a
foreign language and culture at
the same time as their children.
Priority has been given to
primary schools, in view of the
fact that this should be the
pupils’ first contact with a
foreign language, and to a variety
of languages, to avoid clubs that
are exclusively in English.
So far, the feedback has been
very positive. Parents and
teachers realise the advantages of
participating in such a project,
which go well beyond learning a
language (opening up to the
world, better family-school cooperation, better follow-up of
the child’s education, etc.), and
they have expressed a desire for
dialogue with their counterparts
in the different participating
countries.
Website:
parents.org
http://www.epa-
Partner countries: Belgium,
France, Germany, Ireland, Spain
Project co-ordinator:
Hira Laci
European Parents Association
Rue du Champ de Mars, 1a
B-1050 Brussels
tel: +(32) 2 514 0599
fax: +(32) 2 514 4767
e-mail: [email protected]
EUROPEAN
RESOURCE AND
LANGUAGE
CENTRE
NETWORK
Principalul obiectiv al proiectului
este
crearea
unei
retele
internationale care sa cuprinda
centre de limbi straine si de
resurse in domeniu, in vederea
colectarii si diseminarii de
informatii despre ofertantii de
servicii in domeniul limbilor
straine. Principalul produs al
acestui proiect este un portal cu
baze de date: una contine
informatii in domeniul limbilor
mici, iar a doua contine
informatii in domeniul limbilor
engleza, franceza si germana, cu
linkuri catre paginile nationale
ale tarilor participante in proiect
(Belgia, Greecia, Irlanda, Italia,
Lituania, Norvegia si Romania).
Portalul
ofera
posibilitatea
tehnica de a reactualiza si
completa permanent informatia.
countries (Belgium, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway
and Romania). The portal allows
for continuous updating and
uploading of new information.
Proiectul:
raises awareness of the value of
acquiring partial competence in a
less widely-used and less taught
language;
promoveaza interesul pentru
studiul limbilor greaca, irlandeza,
lituaniana, norvegiana, romana,
olandeza
si
italiana,
din
perspectiva tolerantei fata de
diversitatea culturala si lingvistica
a Europei;
creste gradul de constientizare a
utilitatii
dobindirii
de
competente, fie si partiale, in
domeniul limbilor mici;
ofera modele de promovare a
informatiei
despre
oferta
educationala
adresata
persoanelor interesate de studiul
limbilor straine, incluzind aici si
persoanele cu nevoi de invatare
speciale;
ofera instrumente de asigurare a
calitatii si de autoevaluare pentru
ofertantii
educationali
in
domeniul limbilor mici.
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The main objective is to create
an international network of
language resource centres for the
collection and dissemination of
information about language
teaching providers in the
participating countries. The main
outcomes will be a portal with
two databases: one for less
widely-used and less taught
languages; and one for English,
French and German, with links
to national sites in the partners’
The project:
promotes interest in the study of
Dutch, Greek, Irish, Italian,
Lithuanian, Norwegian and
Romanian, as a contribution
towards the education of people
in tolerance of cultural and
linguistic diversity in Europe;
provides models of how to
promote information about the
possibilities offered to language
learners, including those with
special learning needs;
provides quality assurance and
self-evaluation
tools
for
providers of less widely-used and
less taught languages.
Website:
http://www.eLanceNet.org
Partner countries: Belgium,
Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania,
Norway, Romania
Project co-ordinator:
Anca Colibaba
EuroEd Foundation
Florilor Street 1C
RO-6600 Iasi
tel: +(40) 232 25 28 70
fax: +(40) 232 25 29 02
e-mail: [email protected]
JOIN THE CLUB!
Det är roligt att lära sig språk!
Join the Club är ett europeiskt
språkprojekt som drivs av
Högskolan Dalarna och Järfälla
Gymnasieskolor i samarbete
med organisationer i England,
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Finland,
Lettland,
Spanien och Tyskland.
Litauen
Syftet med projektet är att öka
språkkunskaperna
och
den
interkulturella medvetenheten i
samhället. Vi gör detta genom att
etablera språkklubbar vars mål är
att ge deltagarna möjlighet att
väcka till liv och träna de
språkkunskaper de har sedan
skoltiden, så att de får
självförtroende nog att använda
språket.
Klubbarna vänder sig till alla
som vill lära sig språk utanför
det traditionella utbildningsväsendet. Träffarna genomsyras
av en positiv och informell
atmosfär med mottot: Att lära
sig språk är roligt! Kanske tänds
en låga här och var så att en del
väljer att studera vidare vid sidan
om språkklubben.
Efter ett år med projektet har ett
stort antal språkklubbar bildats
och entusiasmen är stor och
språkmedvetenheten ökar.
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It’s fun to learn languages!
Join the Club is a European
language project that brings
together the Högskolan Dalarna
and Järfälla Gymnasieskolor in
co-operation with organisations
from
England,
Finland,
Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and
Spain.
The aim of the project is to
increase knowledge of languages
and raise the level of intercultural awareness in society. We
are doing this by establishing
language clubs, whose goal is to
give participants the possibility
to re-awaken and develop the
knowledge of languages that they
gained at school, so that they
become self-confident enough to
use the language.
The clubs are targeted at anyone
who wants to learn languages
outside
the
traditional
educational environment. Club
meetings are characterised by a
positive and informal atmosphere, in keeping with our
motto: “It’s fun to learn
languages!”. It may even inspire
some participants to go on and
continue their studies outside the
language clubs.
A year into the project, a large
number of language clubs have
been set up, enthusiasm is high
and awareness of languages is
increasing.
Website:
http://www.jointheclub.net
Partner countries: Finland,
Germany, Latvia, Lithuania,
Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Project co-ordinator:
Organisationen, die sich mit
Sprach- und Kulturvermittlung
in der Region beschäftigen,
erfasst.
Hier können sich Interessenten
individuell und gezielt über
Sprachlern-möglichkeiten in der
Region
informieren:
ein
Anfängerkurs Tschechisch in
Usti,
deutsche
Handelkorrespondenz in Wroclaw oder
Polnischkurse für Studenten in
Zittau. Um Zugangsbarrieren
abzubauen, wird das Portal in
allen drei Sprachen und aus der
jeweiligen Landesdomäne heraus
zu-gänglich
sein.
Die
Internetseite
liefert
zudem
allgemeine Tipps zum Sprachenlernen sowie landeskundliche
Informationen zu den beiden
Nachbarländern.
that deal with the language and
culture of this region.
An interested person can receive
general or specific information
about various opportunities for
learning the language of the
target region: a beginners’ course
in Czech in Ustí, a German
business correspondence course
in Wroclaw, or Polish courses
for students in Zittau. In order
to minimise the difficulties of
gaining access to the desired
information, the language portal
will be accessible in all three
languages and from each
respective country domain.
Moreover, the Internet page will
offer some general advice on
how to acquire a language as well
as providing regional and
cultural information about the
neighbouring countries.
An der Erstellung des Portals,
die den größten Teil der
Projektarbeit einnimmt, arbeiten
Universitäten aus den drei
Ländern sowie zwei Sprachschulen zusammen. Das Portal
soll nicht nur durch das Medium
Internet, sondern auch über
Sprachenfeste,
Rundfunksendungen und Nachschlagebroschüren bekannt gemacht
werden. Eine zentrale Rolle
spielen
hier
die
beiden
Radiosender, die den Projektverlauf bereits jetzt mit ihren
Sendungen begleiten.
Partner
countries:
Czech
Republic, Germany, Poland
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Project co-ordinator:
Sprachenportal
im
Dreiländereck – ein Tor zum
Sprachenlernen – ein Tor zu
den Nachbarn
Language portal in the Border
Triangle – A gateway to
language learning – A
gateway to our neighbours
Die Plattform richtet sich
vorrangig an die Bewohner des
Dreiländerecks aber auch an alle
anderen, die an der Sprache und
Kultur
ihrer
polnischen,
tschechischen oder deutschen
Nachbarn interessiert sind. Das
Herzstück des Internetportals
bildet eine Datenbank, die alle
lokalen
Einrichtungen
und
The language platform is
especially directed to the
residents of the three countries
involved, but also to all those
others who are interested in the
language and culture of their
Polish, Czech or German
neighbours. At the heart of the
Internet portal is a database,
which holds details of all local
institutions and organisations
Antje Neuhoff
Technische Universität Dresden
Mommsenstrasse 13
D-01062 Dresden
tel: +(49) 351 4633 1645
fax: +(49) 351 4633 7218
e-mail: antje.neuhoff@mailbox.
tu-dresden.de
Loretta Qwarnström
Högskolan Dalarna
Selma Lagerlöfsplatsen
S-79188 Falun
tel: +(46) 23 77 83 88
fax: +(46) 23 77 80 88
e-mail: [email protected]
2002
PROJECTS
SPRACHENPORTAL IM
DREILÄNDERECK
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The project brings together
universities from the three
countries along with two
language schools. A key
objective is to publicise the
portal, not only via the Internet,
but also through language
festivals, radio broadcasting and
brochures. Two of the partner
radio stations are already
promoting the project through
their broadcasts.
OPENING THE
DOOR TO
LANGUAGE
LEARNING
Partner countries: Belgium,
Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania,
Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
encourage them to seek further
opportunities
for
language
learning.
The Opening the Door to
Language Learning project,
which began in October 2002,
aims to widen participation in
language learning and cultural
awareness. The target group for
the project is non-traditional
language learners who do not
normally have access to the
resources available to those
following traditional language
learning courses. The principle
objectives of the project are to:
Project co-ordinator:
All partners attended the initial
meeting in Nottingham in
December 2002, and projects are
now getting underway.
increase access to language
learning opportunities;
encourage greater motivation
and independence in language
learning;
stimulate a potentially higher
number of learners to study a
wider range of languages;
develop and test a range of
strategies to help resource
centres
encourage wider
participation
in
language
learning;
provide support for independent
learners.
In order to achieve these
objectives, we will be developing
and trialling a number of models
to help encourage language
learning among a wider public.
These models will include:
opening university resource
centres to the general public;
language
“taster”
sessions;
language roadshows; tandem
partnerships; and encouraging
use of the European Language
Portfolio.
The
tested
models
will
contribute to a handbook of
good practice to be written in
the final year of the project.
Alison Dickens
University of Southampton
Highfield
UK-Southampton SO17 1BJ
tel: +(44) 23 8059 7785
fax: +(44) 23 8059 4815
e-mail: [email protected]
Partner countries: Denmark,
France, Germany, Slovenia,
Spain, United Kingdom
Project co-ordinator:
ALLEGRO
ALLEGRO (Access to Language Learning by Extending to
Groups Outside) targets groups
who have previously had little
awareness of language learning,
or for whom access is difficult,
for reasons of social, geographical or economic isolation.
It aims to provide a network of
small, low-threshold projects,
usually based in the community
outside
traditional
learning
environments (for example, a
language club for mothers and
young children living on an
inner-city estate).
Linda Parker
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
UK-Nottingham NG1 4BU
tel: +(44) 1788 546443
fax: +(44) 115 848 6513
e-mail:
[email protected]
FACILITER LA
PRATIQUE DES
LANGUES PECO
To achieve this, partners will
work closely with other agencies
and organisations, which will
provide opportunities to raise
the profile of language learning
among professionals outside the
field of education (for example,
in social and youth work).
L’objectif du projet est de
répondre
à
des
besoins
d’information linguistique sur les
moyens et les méthodes existant
pour l’apprentissage des langues
des Pays d’Europe Centrale et
Orientale (PECO). Les partenaires créeront donc un site
d’information sur les ressources
linguistiques des PECO. Parvenir aux résultats escomptés
nécessite:
Projects will use a variety of
innovative
methods
and
approaches; one partner already
has experience of using circus
skills to help those re-entering
education to develop their
potential.
d’identifier
les
ressources
formation en langues des
organismes de formation tant
publics que privés existant dans
4 PECO (Bulgarie, Hongrie,
Roumanie et Slovaquie) et en
France, Italie et Portugal;
It is envisaged that links between
some groups will be possible; a
starting point for this may be an
existing twinning association.
Projects will be easily replicated
and
maintained,
thus
encouraging others to offer
similar activities. They will aim
to raise learners’ self-esteem and
d’identifier et classer les
prestations
formation
en
fonction des différents types de
publics amenés à utiliser ces
ressources;
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l’offre des ressources formation
sur site Web;
l’émergence de réseaux élaborant
des offres linguistique spécifiques en complément de l’offre
existante;
l’information du grand public sur
l’exhaustivité
du
site
en
permettant à l’utilisateur des
interrogations
multi-critères
pouvant répondre à son
problème de formation.
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The objective of the project is to
respond to the public need for
information
about
existing
means and methods for learning
the languages of Central and
Eastern European countries
(CEECs). The aim of the
partners is therefore to create a
website with information on the
resources available for the
learning of these languages. In
order to achieve the desired
results, the project will need to:
identify
existing
language
learning resources offered by
both public and private training
bodies in 4 CEECs (Bulgaria,
Hungary, Romania and Slovakia)
and in France, Italy and
Portugal;
identify and classify the training
benefits available to the various
types of groups that use these
resources;
list these training resources on
the project website;
promote networks that offer
specific services in addition to
the existing resources;
make available information
about the website to the general
public by enabling users to
submit multi-criteria queries as a
way of responding to their
training problems.
Partner countries: Bulgaria,
France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia
Project co-ordinator:
Pascal Vaillant
AUEF Lorraine
34 Cours Léopold
F-54052 Nancy Cedex
tel: +(33) 3 831 76736
fax: +(33) 3 831 76744
e-mail: [email protected]
EUROPE ON AIR
Mit dem Projekt “Europe on Air”
beabsichtigen wir eine möglichst
große Anzahl von Personen die
sprachliche
Vielfalt
Europas
näherzubringen, von den Vorteilen
der Mehrsprachigkeit zu überzeugen und auf konkrete Möglichkeiten des Sprachenerwerbes hinzuweisen. Dies soll im wesentlichen durch die Produktion eines
umfangreichen Audiopakets und
deren Ausstrahlung durch lokale
nichtkommerzielle, kommerzielle
und öffentlich-rechtliche Radiostationen erfolgen.
In weiterer Folge werden diese
produzierten Radiospots und
Beiträge auch auf einer eigenen
Website allen Interessierten als
mp3 zur Verfügung stehen. Sie
können dann von allen Interessierten, nicht nur Radiostationen,
downgeloaded werden. Erwartet
wird, dass durch eine massive
Ausstrahlung der Spots, die Anzahl
der Sprachlernenden steigt und
dass in den Gebieten, wo direkt auf
Language
Resource
Centres
hingewiesen wird, diese einen
größeren Zulauf an Sprachschülern
haben.
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With the “Europe on Air” project,
we aim to draw the attention of the
largest possible number of persons
to European linguistic diversity, to
convince them of the advantages
of multilingualism and to show
them concrete possibilities as to
how they can acquire linguistic
competence. This will basically be
done by producing a compre10
hensive audio package and by
broadcasting it on non-commercial,
commercial and public radio
stations.
The radio spots and contributions
will also become available to the
public and interested radio stations
as mp3 files, and will be
downloadable from a dedicated
website. It is anticipated that,
through the widespread broadcasting of the spots, the number of
language students will increase,
especially in the language resource
centres referred to in the spots.
Website: http://www.europeon-air.net
Partner
Finland,
Ireland
countries: Austria,
France,
Hungary,
Project co-ordinator:
David Röthler
Radiofabrik Salzburg
Mühlbacherhofweg 5
A-5020 Salzburg
tel: +(43) 662 650 986
fax: +(43) 662 650 986-30
e-mail: [email protected]
FURTHER
INFORMATION
ON LINGUA 1
WHO TO CONTACT
European Commission:
tel: +(32) 2 295 0968
fax: +(32) 2 299 6321
e-mail:
[email protected]
Internet:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/educati
on/socrates/download.html
or contact your National Agency
for advice about getting in touch
with possible partners abroad.
National Agencies sometimes
arrange partner-finding seminars,
and have available a budget for
“Preparatory Visits” - enabling you
to visit potential partners in order
to discuss your project ideas. See a
list of National Agencies at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/educa
tion/socrates/nat-est.html
You may also wish to check out
the partner-finding database run
by the Norwegian Socrates
National Agency at:
http://siu.no/socpart
For more information about the
Commission’s actions in favour of
language teaching and learning,
and about the languages spoken in
Europe,
please
visit
our
multilingual website:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/educa
tion/languages/index.html
USEFUL LINKS
LINGUA
CATALOGUE
The “Lingua Catalogue” is a
searchable database containing
detailed descriptions of language
learning materials. These have
been developed by transnational
partnerships with support from
the European Commission,
within the framework of the
Lingua Programme (1990-1994)
and the Lingua D Action of the
Socrates Programme (19952000). The Catalogue has recently been updated with 41 new
products, the results of Lingua
projects completed between May
1998 and September 2000. Each
product has been assessed by a
panel of experts for its usefulness. The site is available in
English, French, German and
Spanish at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/edu
cation/socrates/lingua/catalogu
e/home_en.htm
LEONARDO
LANGUAGE
CATALOGUE
A catalogue of products
developed by Leonardo language
projects between 1995 and 1999
will soon be available on our
website at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/edu
cation/languages_en.html
EUROPEAN LABEL
The European Label for innovative projects in language teaching and learning has two main
aims: to encourage new initiatives in this field; to inform
teachers and learners about such
initiatives and inspire them to
adapt the ideas and techniques to
their own situation. The Label is
awarded annually to the most
innovative language learning
projects in each participating
country. It is co-ordinated by the
European Commission, but is
managed on a decentralised basis; national juries decide which
projects will receive the Label.
For more information see:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/edu
cation/language/label.html
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LINGU@NET
EUROPA
Lingu@net
Europa
is
a
multilingual resources centre to
support language teaching and
training. The site is available in
Dutch,
English,
French,
German, Italian and Spanish at:
http://www.linguaneteuropa.org/y2/
EUROCLIC
The European Commission has
contributed to the development
of a network (“Euroclic”) of
teachers and other parties
interested in the learning of
other
educational
subjects
through the use of a foreign
language. Euroclic produces
regular bulletins, and the website
includes a materials bank and a
“chat” facility for teachers. For
more information see:
http://www.euroclic.net/
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“Lingua 2 Projects” – March
2003