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Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Oct 2, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

There are two appointed foreign languages in the educational plan of the students attending the pedagogical profile. The two foreign languages taught in the “Vasile Lupu” Pedagogical Highschool are English and French. The first foreign language is taught within two hours a week during the four years of highschool, the second language is given, beginning with the superior cycle, which is from the 11th and 12th grades, only one hour of study. The students who choose to take the certificate which allows them to teach the foreign language (they may choose the first and/or the second foreign language, or both of them) are allocated, according to the present curriculum, only half an hour. This means that during one half an hour a week of pedagogical practice we must achieve the teaching of the foreign language didactics (French or English) as well as the accomplishment of the foreign language practice stage. Therefore, it is obvious that the foreign languages teachers, methodologists of the pedagogical practice, make huge efforts to raise the students’ language level within 2 hours or even one a week, same time which is also allocated for teaching the foreign language didactics. This project was designed as a consequence of our needs, thouroughly analysed and researched, and it aims at completing students’ education in the field of acquiring linguistic knowledge, abilities and competences in order to teach foreign languages at primary level, education which cannot be achieved under best circumstances currently, at the “Vasile Lupu” Pedagogical Highschool, only because of the allocated time of teaching within the present curriculum (half an hour a week) for the pedagogical practice and the teaching of the foreign language methodology. The objectives of this project are the following:1. To acquire specific methods and strategies of teaching-learning the foreign languages at primary level: teaching the vocabulary items, the phonetics, the grammar, the communicative structures. 2. To develop the competence of speaking and writing in the foreign language, of socially interaction with the pupils. 3. To develop the competence of writing the didactic project in the foreign language, according to the curriculum and the study level. 4. To develop the competence of intercultural communication in professional context. The target group is made up of 32 students of the “Vasile Lupu” Pedagogical Highschool, pedagogical profile from 10th and 11th grades, registered at pedagogical practice of a foreign language, who are going to take the foreign language certificate for teaching at primary level, at the end of 12th grade. The certificate of foreign language teaching at primary level is taken, each year, by students who choose either French or English. Thus, the project takes into account the students’ training for the two languages: a first flow of 16 students for english and a second flow of students for taking the french certificate. In order to accomplish these objectives, the students will perform the following activities:1. Acquiring the foreign language methods and strategies of teaching at primary level: teaching the phonetics, the vocabulary, the communicative structures by solving the work tasks during the training. 2. Taking actively part to workshops, having as themes methods and strategies of teaching foreign languages at primary level. 3. Noticing and writing down in their training notebook the demands expressed by the teacher using the foreign language, the social interaction phrases in the classroom, during watching the lessons at primary level. 4. Writing the didactic projects for different activities using the foreign language. 5. Performing a lesson sequence using the foreign language. The students will speak and write in the foreign language under authentic learning contexts. During the first week, they will acquire foreign language teaching methods and strategies in the group workshops, they will have the opportunity to practice their knowledge by making didactic projects and solving practical tasks. During the second week, they will have a practical stage at primary schools, where they will watch the foreign language activities, they will make up didactic projects and they will perform sequences of foreign language activities, they will interact with the pupils, the tutor and the mentor using the foreign language. The results of this project concern the development of knowledge, abilities and competences to teach a foreign language at primary level, for a group of 32 students. This training will have a positive impact on the quality of the test and final classes of the participants, in order to take the Foreign Language Teaching Certificate at primary level and it will also encourage other students to register at the foreign language pedagogical practice.
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