“Intercultural skills in foreign language education” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Intercultural skills in foreign language education”

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Context:
The aim of the project is, as written above, to develop the classic “theaching by book” into a more realistic and valuable way for the students to learning foreign languages. By joining a partnership, the teachers aim is to delevop new methods of teaching, By opening up own practice, and realize the ways colleagues from other countries work, will make you reflect on your own practice and and change to new sustainable ways af teaching,
Therefore teachers from both countries met to share their ideas and make the first appointments about how to continue.
We made the following assumotions:
-To improwe the motivation of the participating students it was important to us, to tie the taechingsituations as close to the students real life as possible.
-Real situations of linguistig Encounters encourage the students to communicate about topics belonging to their lives.
-The activities that provide to higher level og language acquistion are planned around the students excanges. and follow three steps: pre-, during- and postexchange to guarantee the continuing learning process.
as consequense we deweloped 7 stages that include 7 diffrent topics
1)Personal meetings:
– Online meetings via e-mail, padlets, snail-mail including gifts and social networks.
– Meetings for real
– Staying in touch by using diffrent networks. and working on postexcance exercises.
2) Knowing hometowns:
-The students collect information about their hometowns and share it with their partners, who pick interesting points to create an itinerary.
– Guest students get to know important places by taking part in a town ralley
– Guest students create and share videoes containing the most popular places in town.
3) Everyday culture and family life in a foreign country:
-The students and their families make preparations to welcome exchange students: Activities in the family/preferences/aversions/allergies or diseases
– Spending time in the families during the stay
– Feedback to the families (postcards, letters, videos, further contacts and a feedback sheet for parents)
4) A different school system:
– Students present their own schools via Internet
– Students participate in their partners’ lessons, experience days at a foreign school and take part in special events and small projects.
– They reflect on similarities and differences of school life in both countries, work on a surveysheet and compose a collection of recipes.
5) Hobbies & spare time activities:
– They communicate about their personal interests in a foreign language, first in written, later oral (messenger services, videos)
– They organise different kinds of activities which they maintain together, e.g. ice-skating in Fredrikshavn, swimming on the beach and in the
Tropenpark in Tossens (near Nordenham), playing a floorball tournament and went shopping together in Hjorring, Nordenham and Bremerhaven.
– The students present their activities on a photoboard and in articles for their school magazines/school homepages
6) Sights in the other country:
– Host students look for information about special places & sights close to Nordenham and Sindal (Hirtshals Aquarium, Grenen, Klimahaus Bremerhaven) and prepare it for the visit by developping a questionnaire for some of the sights.
– Guest students check and complete the information given by their hosts.
– Guest students present the information to other classes at home.
7) The “Das Deutsche Haus” in Sindal:
– German teachers from Sindal and Nordenham get an introduction about The German House (DdH) and its special teaching concept (immersion).
– German and Danish students work together on different tasks and exercises in playful ways.
– Danish students develop their German skills, German students improve their methodic an technical skills by working with tools they haven’t used before.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52125 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sindal Skole & Country: DK

Project Partners

• Oberschule 1 Nordenham