Multilanguage learning to know Erasmus Project

Project Title

Multilanguage learning to know

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

In a time of free movement of people it is unthinkable to use in our everyday life only one foreign language, which in almost one hundred percent of the cases is English. It is incomparably easier to study the foundations of any foreign language in place, in the background and among the natural bearers of the language. The opportunity for students to touch different languages will enrich them intellectually and will give them confidence in their own potential by passing on the lessons learned.
Foreign language skills are becoming more important than ever. Today’s pupils are going to compete in an even more globalised world and cultural as well as language skills are going to be indispensable for a competitive society. The need to learn several languages has been confirmed by all surveys and research related to the ET 2020 strategy and has been summarised in the report “Languages for Jobs” of the EC’s European Strategic Framework for ET 2020.
One of the objectives of multilingualism policy of the EU is that every European should speak two languages in addition to their native language. The most effective way to achieve this goal is for students to begin to learn two foreign languages.
The EU supports language learning because:
• improving language skills enables more people to study and/ or work abroad while improving their employment prospects;
• fluency in other languages helps people from different cultures to understand, which is very important in a multilingual and multicultural Europe;
• businesses need multilingual workers to be able to trade successfully throughout Europe;
• the language industry – translation and interpreting, language teaching, language technology, etc. – is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy
The objectives of our project are:
OBJECTIVE 1 Speak two foreign languages – Being multilanguage brings students the chance having access to endless information spring. When we give the students the opportunity to start learning a language they have never intended to do but a language that comes from the family of language they have already learning they see how easy it is (Italian and Portuguese, Bulgarian and Czech). When the language is spoken to a neigbour country the students see the result of foreign language learning sooner because they can use it while travelling with their parents (Bulgaria and Turkey)
OBJECTIVE 2 Multiciltural Understanding – Knowledge of other languages, offering insights into other cultures and key to appreciation and understanding of
other cultures is also key to the interdisciplinary area of global understanding and intercultural competency and the sign of a well-educated global citizen.While the exact nature and extent of the multilingual advantage is still a subject for study, the impact of an early start in terms of language exposure and/or study has been shown to have a positive impact on language skills overall.
OBJECTIVE 3 Confidence in their own potential – Using their own potential while passing the lessons learnt to their mates make students more confident in their skills and abilities. Being part of the educational process during the lessons back home students are more motivated and attentive during the lessons.
OBJECTIVE 4 New skills for successful language teaching – Teachers will get access to materials, which stimulate the use of new and innovative materials for language teaching in classrooms. Through the accompanying didactic methodology they will be able to follow the materials step-by-step and at the same time develop their own skills, which will be helpful in their future career and will thus benefit generations of pupils to come.
OBJECTIVE 5 Openess for new concepts in education – Teachers will be involved in an innovative program, where they will actively participate in the development of new materials. Additionally, we expect that teachers will be more likely to participate in further projects in the future, and they will be more open to new concepts and approaches to education, which will be very important in our age, where the skill-requirements are changing fast, and our education systems needs to adapt.
The participants in the project are secondary school studens. They are 12 – 19 years old and the teachers are part of the foreign and mother tongue language departments in the participating schools. Students will have the opportunity to express themselves in an international environment at different levels and in a different language. This will develop their foreign language skills and increase their awareness after the activities they attend. With these activities, regardless of their previous language levels, our students will meet their peers who have different social and cultural backgrounds from different cultures and they will make mutual cultural exchanges by actively participating in joint activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 95440 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sredno uchilishte Hristo Botev & Country: BG

Project Partners

• agrupamento de escolas de vila verde
• Siyavuspasa Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
• Stredni zdravotnicka skola a Vyssi odborna skola zdravotnicka, Plzen, Karlovarska 99