Enhancing Multilingualism Among Teenage Entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhancing Multilingualism Among Teenage Entrepreneurs

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Our project is acronymed as E-Mate and it is the name of an application we have created as our final product which includes the equivalents of useful daily expressions in the languages of the partners.
In accordance with the widespread use of smartphones all over the world, the priority given to linguistic diversity in the EU, and the needs analysis of the result of a survey we conveyed on language learning among the 5 partner schools (Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, Spain) we decided to apply for this strategic partnership with the aim of enhancing multilingualism among our students via offering them an opportunitiy to learn some daily expressions of the most spoken European langauges in an authentic environment and supporting them in creating a learning tool.

The Objectives were:
•Learning useful daily expressions in the most spoken languages of EU via taking part in authentic language learning activities abroad and making use of the E-Mate app.
•Widening our students’ vision to see the future in the abilities to be entrepreneurs in software programming which is required by many working sectors.
•Understanding and increasing appreciation of their own as well as other languages and cultures.
•Gaining a better understanding on how they learn and what strategies to use to improve their learning.
•Increasing dimension of inclusive education in the EU through offering an equal and friendly educational environment which will include all kinds of students.
•Understanding and increasing the appreciation of their own as well as other languages and cultures.
•Creating synergy among young people through language learning/teaching tutorials.
•Strenghtening teaching profile via learning new innovative methods involving ICT and exchanging good practices
•Developing interaction among the partner schools.
•Offering a mobile solution for communication problems of Erasmus+ beneficiars and all language learners

The created products:
•an Application (e-tool) including the script-sound equivalents of useful daily expressions in the most spoken languages in the EU
-ANDROID: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saadettin.ematetranslator&hl=tr
-IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/emate-translator/id1194021191?mt=8
•a Logo
•a Website (http://www.ematetranslator.com)
•a Twinspace
•a Seminar
•2 Calendars
•3 Theatre Plays
•Booklets
•Posters
•Brochures
•Tutorials
•Social media groups
•Workshops
•PPTs (Cross-Cultural Communication and Linguistic diversity,How to prevent early school leaving,A linguistic Survival Kit)

The carried out activities:
•Authentic LTT activities during which the participants had the opportunity to learn the participating languages in real world situations, test and implement the application.
•A website, an e-Twinning desktop and social media accounts were created to promote, evaluate, disseminate the project results on a global level.

Approximately 5300 students and teachers from 5 partner schools, more than two times of this number the parents of the students and a great number of Erasmus+ beneficiars/language learners benefitted of the results of the project directly or indirectiy.Our main methodology in this project was based on Authentic Learning and ICT which was realistic and feasible in terms of learning languages in real world to better interiorize the expressions and use of ICT through creating, testing, implementing the application.

The results/impact:
•All the products above were created.
•Our students have improved multiligual communication skills; been entrepreneur in software programming; gained a better understanding of their own as well as other languages/cultures; improved their language competences by teaching their own mother tongue to other students; gained a better understanding on how they learn; became more active, creative, confident and independent individuals
•Our teachers learned innovative ICT teaching methods, exchanged ideas and teaching practices
•Our schools have increased their quality of education
•Erasmus+ beneficiars/language learners have been offered an app to overcome some communication problems and improve their personal qualifications

Longer-term benefits:
•We have integrated all the outcomes of the project into our schools’ curricula and we will make use of the results for a long time.
•Our students have been able to take charge of their own learning and they have developed communicative skills. They will benefit from the earnings of this project in a lifelong learning perspective.
•The first step of the Emate project cycle was completed, however we applied for a subsequent complementary project to enrich the content of the E-Mate App with more languages and thus we want to provide a longer term benefit to anyone interested in.
•The emate website and our twinspace will also be updated to continue promoting our products to anyone who intends to learn/teach the relevant languages.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 102950 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hüseyin Ak Ortaokulu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• – Pfalzinstitut für Hören und Kommunikation – Augustin-Violet-Schule Frankenthal
• IES Puig De Sa Font
• COLLEGE HONORE D’URFE
• Istituto Comprensivo Statale “San Giovanni Bosco”