The proposed project, Improved Language Learning (ILL), derives from an on-going educational exchange program involving six upper secondary schools from Rogaland County Council and the Academy of Grenoble to promote the acquisition of better oral skills in French and English respectively. Since the initiation of the exchange in 2013, both parties have expressed a desire for didactic enrichment to improve the teaching of oral skills. ILL thus seeks to assist these participating teachers in the motivation and training of learners in improving their oral skills by first identifying specific teacher needs and then organizing in-service teacher training courses. The contents of the training courses should be considered relevant to the teachers, and should be possible to carry through in the every-day work in the classroom. After the training course the teachers should be challenged to leave their comfort-zones in the classroom situation to try out the newly acquired didactic methods. Following a trial period in the classroom, both the training course and the practice period will be evaluated, leading to the final output of the project, namely a sustainable in-service-training course that promotes the acquisition of oral skills in the classroom and which can be used in various situations and for various languages. The long term benefits of ILL are found both in the development of the in-service training course and in the promotion of innovative and reflective teaching practices that lead to an improvement in oral skills acquisition. Participants in France: Two representatives from the DAREIC and the University Stendhal Grenoble3, plus four English teachers from the Lycée du Grésivaudan. PArticipants in Norway: Two representatives from Rogaland County Council, two didactic teachers from the University of Stavanger, plus four French teachers from Kopervik and Sandnes upper secondary schools. The project will begin with a two-day start-up meeting in mid-September 2014 in Grenoble to establish close relations between the partners, followed by workshops in late October to identify the language teachers’ specific needs. University lecturers from Stavanger and Grenoble will then meet in Grenoble at the end of November. The Stendhal University in Grenoble and the University of Stavanger will develop the in-service-teacher training courses for teachers of French and English respectively. The universities will work continuously on course preparation after the November meeting. In April 2015 a joint partner meeting will take place in Grenoble to discuss the proposed training courses. The pilot training courses will then take place in Stavanger and Grenoble in October 2015. Following this the participants will try out new methods of teaching oral skills in their own classrooms and engage in an evaluation process. Key persons in the project will have one evaluation meeting in March 2016, and the final one in June 2016 in Stavanger.