NOT TOO LATE TO SPEAK Erasmus Project

Project Title

NOT TOO LATE TO SPEAK

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

NOT TOO LATE TO SPEAK (NTLS) project consisted of 5 organisations and institutions; FA-Magdeburg GmbH is a private German training company located in Magdeburg, Germany; SC ROGEPA SRL that Rogepa is a Romanian private training company; JUMP IN is a young organisation with a clear goal to spread education in Italy, The University of Wrocław is the largest university in Poland and and the coordinator EYUP Public Education Center from Turkey. All the organisations actively involved adult education organisations.
The main goal of the NOT TOO LATE TO SPEAK project and also of the partner organizations was to assist presenting a supportive and friendly foreign language learning environment for adults through ICT who thinks that they were too late to learn a foreign language, helping to make their communicative competence progress visible and increasing learner satisfaction. Secondly,The adults who had many prejudices about their target language for instance; they couldn’t learn a foreign language or even if they could, they wouldn’t be able to speak it with any tourists or native speakers, “Not Too Late to Speak” project aimed to break those prejudices and made them ask themselves that “Can I achieve it and give a place in the European community?” One of the core aims of this Learning Partnership project was to promote inclusive and motivating in language learning contexts for adult pupils by enhancing their ability to communicate and co-operate with people across language and cultural boundaries.
With the help of project partnerships, we aimed to exchange the best experience of promoting foreign language learning and practicing of different European institutions, to enhance availability of educational opportunities and conditions. .Furthermore, language skills facilitated working, studying and travelling across Europe and allowed true intercultural communication. Our project put adults’ learning into a wider European context and was organized on the basis of exchanging cultural knowledge and understanding unique ways of life in various European regions. At every teaching/learning/ training activities organized by 4 partner countries, teachers had experiences in-class job shadowing, students learned how to use English as a second language and both the teachers/students participated in a field trip with other partner schools. Their social, communication, professional, linguistic, cultural skills the added value of this activity that teachers/students were as follows:- developed English language skills (communication, speaking, comprehension, writing) for both the students and the teachers,- – developed learners’ and teachers’ creativity,- developed ICT/multimedia skills and competences of both pupils and teachers. Throughout the project and at last, with the active participation of the partners, we produced a handbook and e-platform (https://letspeak.teachable.com/) to improve English as a second language.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 75625 Eur

Project Coordinator

EYUP HEM & Country: TR

Project Partners

• SC ROGEPA SRL
• UNIWERSYTET WROCLAWSKI
• FA-Magdeburg GmbH
• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE JUMPIN