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Language Learning for Professionals in ICT and Agriculture

LaProf is a Multilateral Project that aims at promoting language awareness toimmigrating workforces in two particular sectors, ICT and agriculture. The main goal isto provide access to language learning resources that will help candidate immigrants getmore familiarized with the terminology and cultural issues in their sectors, throughdeveloping and disseminating a number of language learning exercises. The pilot usercommunities addressed are (a) ICT teachers living in Estonia (and the Baltics ingeneral) who want to move and work in Finland, and (b) agricultural professionals livingin Romania who want to move and work in Greece.Significant attention will be given to encouraging the learning of European officiallanguages (such as English, French, Finnish, and Greek) as foreign languages in orderto help European citizens from Estonia and Romania to understand better the workingenvironment and culture of the targeted countries (i.e. Finland and Greece). Thefollowing outputs will be produced:• A language learning framework that will outline the background, topics, workingculture, and relevant terminology of the targeted sectors and destination countries;• A variety of multilingual language learning exercises (at least 20 that will be translatedand adapted in English, French, Romanian, Hungarian, Estonian, and Russian), whichwill be made publicly available and accessible online;• Additional learning resources such as a Learner’s Guide that will contain thebackground knowledge that learners should have before taking the language learningexercises, culture-aware resources that will facilitate their preparation for immigration inthe destination countries, as well as pedagogical guidelines and tips for the languageteachers;• An online environment (the LaProf Web portal) through which the learners will be ableto search for and access all the above learning resources and methodologies.
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