Languages 4 all
Start date: Sep 1, 2015,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
As all partners' schools privilege languages competences achievements and organize different languages courses during the years, this project will give them the opportunity to improve those competences and to use languages in a real context. Basically, the main activity will be the exchange of languages among partners. Every year two languages will be proposed and taught by the students themselves through video-tutorials. Students will plan the way to record them, the structures to teach and the topics. They will practically record the videos and assess the partners' progresses. New materials will be producted and used to practise the studied languages. A new method to teach foreign language to kids will take life. Teachers will strenghten their professionality working in collaboration and discussing and elaborating a new original teaching method about languages for kids. Many publications will be available for those who need them: a methodology book, languages manual, online resouces, paper resources ready to print, interactive games for smart boards. In the project, partners will teach each other their languages. Students will be the main actors of the teaching process after having reflected on the linguistic structures of their own language. Students will always be in touch, in this way communication will be real. They will increase their metacognition skills and their comptetences that will be easily transferred to other contexts. While creating materials for partners peers, students will use their creativity. Teachers will better their professionality as they will be trained about methodologies, the use of ICT in teaching, the methods used to write and publish books and manuals, the ability to create new teaching materials and interactive games. The participant organizations will be six schools chosen for their languages and for the competences and profiles of the teachers involved. .
The project will have a longer-term multiple effect and sustainable impact both within and outside the participating school (in other schools or in the community). For pupils, these activities will be integrated into the curriculum in the long-term perspective. In that way, the project will benefit all the learners of the participating schools. In the project students from 6 till 14 years old, teaching staff, parents and local society will be involved in many different activities. All the participants will improve communication skills, develope digital knowlegde, use open educational resources and create new original ones. During the project partners will produce lots of materials that could be used by others interested in the topic even after the project 's end: teachers lessons plans, tutorials, teaching materials, books, a language manual.The project intends to be a good example for other schools, to work in the same direction.