Culture and Heritage in Communication – Using Cultural Heritage in Development of Communicative Competence and Interculturality in Foreign Language Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Culture and Heritage in Communication – Using Cultural Heritage in Development of Communicative Competence and Interculturality in Foreign Language Learning

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The European Year of Cultural Heritage have introduce the willing to put the spotlight on Europe’s wealth of cultural heritage, showcasing its role in fostering a shared sense of identity and building the future of Europe. According to a new Eurobarometer survey released today, most of the Europeans think cultural heritage is not only important to them personally, but also to their community, region, country and the European Union as a whole. All the participating countries – Croatia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Spain – are coastal European countries. The sea and the coast present natural borders that can divide or unite, depending on our approach. This is why project partners decided to plan a project with the purpose to use culture as a tool for language teaching. Communication in English will be developed not by talking only about English culture (as we are used to), but talking and discovering cultural heritage of project partners’ countries.
This aim matches with the general aim of improvement of the adult education offers and adult teachers’ competences.
The aim will be achieved by two IO that will involve two target groups: adult learners and adult teachers/educators:
– Foreign Language Teaching through European Cultural Heritage Discovery Curriculum for Adult Learners
– Learnpress Learners Management System – Digital platform for learning materials
Both the IO will be used in providing a 60 – 80 hour English language course targeted at improving communicative competences in English language and intercultural understanding based on discovering the local cultural heritage of the partners’ countries.
At the very beginning of the project, partners will establish a Project Management Team (four persons) to ensure efficient project management. Three transnational meeting and one Skype meeting will ensure continuous monitoring of the work in progress and achievement of the results.
The Participatory Approach and the P.C.M. Methodology will be used for communication and cooperation between partners.
60 adult learners and 12 teachers will be involved in piloting the English language course level A2 – B1 based and carried out from the Foreign Language Teaching through European Cultural Heritage Discovery Curriculum for Adult Learners and will use the learning materials upload on the Learnpress Learning Management System – digital platform.
18 teachers and staff members will be involved in the sort-term joint staff training event in the 1st year of the project. 79 participants (around 61 learners and 18 teachers) will take part to the blended mobility of learners in the 2nd year of the project. Aroung 215 participants will take part in the multiplier events planned in the middle of the project going on in order to promote the English language course based and the project results. Around 50 participants will take part to the project final conference.
The target groups of the dissemination activities will be (indicatively)
• Adult learners
• Training Providers
• Foreign Language Providers
• Teachers
• Disadvantaged adult groups
• Local community Leaders
• Cultural Organisations at regional/national level
• Linguistic experts
• NGOs
• Public Authorities
The dissemination activity will ensure sustainability of project results, by analysing the evidence of the past and developing strategies for the future.

The main expected impacts will be to have:
– improved communication and presentation skills for teachers and learners in the home language and in English language ,
– developed critical thinking, reflexivity, and self-assessment,
– identified different learning styles and strategies of adult learners and applied appropriate methods and techniques for teaching
adults,
– applied motivational strategies, develop communication and presentation skills,
– evaluated the process of learning and teaching, develop consultation skills with the aim of helping adult learners select a learning programme,
– improved the capacity of piloting, monitoring and evaluating a new curriculum for language competence development,
– improved the use of a digital platform for learning materials,
– developed the capacity of intercultural communication and cooperation,
– developed the self assessment skills and planning the own lifelong learning process.

Project Website

https://chic-learning.online/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 184315 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ustanova za obrazovanje odraslih Dante & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educação e Formação do Sorraia, Lda.
• International Language School
• EUROPEAN REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR CO-OPERATION
• ESCUELA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS RIO VERO
• VALODU MAPE SIA