Languages 4 all Erasmus Project

Project Title

Languages 4 all

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

As all partners’ schools privilege languages competences achievements and organize different languages courses during the years, this project gave them the opportunity to improve those competences and to use languages in real contexts. Basically, the main activity has been the exchange of languages among partners. Every year two languages have been proposed and taught by the students themselves through video-tutorials that they created by themselves with the help of the teachers. Students planned the way to record them, the structures to teach and the topics (even if their teachers had planned the main topics and language structures in the first transnational meeting). They practically recorded the videos and assessed the partners’ progresses. New materials have been producted and used to practise the studied languages. A new method to teach foreign language to kids took life from the partnership. Teachers strenghtened their professionality working in collaboration and discussing and elaborating a new original teaching method about languages for kids. At the end of the project, many publications are available for those who need them and want to study the six foreign languages of the project: a methodology book, a languages manual, online resources, paper resources ready to print, interactive games for smart boards and pc. In the project, partners taught each other their languages. Students have been the main actors of the teaching process after having reflected on the linguistic structures of their own language. Students have always been in touch, in this way communication was real. They increased their metacognition skills and their competences to be transferred to other contexts. While creating materials for partners peers, students used their creativity. Teachers bettered their professionality as they have been trained about methodologies, the use of ICT in teaching, the methods used to write and publish books and manuals, the ability to create new teaching materials and interactive games. The participant organizations have been four schools chosen for their languages (they should have been six but Spain and England didn’t take part just a few days before the starting date) and an eTwinning school from Tenerife who taught Spanish only via the eTwinning platform so that we didn’t lose the possibility to learn Spanish.
As it was difficult to find an English school willing to work in the project via eTwinning, we decided to chose English as the vehicular language.

The project has a longer-term multiple effect and sustainable impact both within and outside the participating schools (in other schools or in the community). For pupils, these activities have been integrated into the curriculum in the long-term perspective. In that way, the project had benefits on all the learners of the participating schools. In the project students from 6 till 14 years old, teaching staff, parents and local society have been involved in different activities. All the participants improved communication skills, developed digital knowlegde, used open educational resources and created new original ones. During the project partners produced lots of materials that could be used by others interested in the topic even after the project ‘s end: teachers lessons plans, tutorials, teaching materials, books, a language manual.The project intends to be a good example for other schools, to work in the same direction. All the materials have been disseminated during the Multiplier event.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110460 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo n°3 Chieti & Country: IT

Project Partners

• COMENIUS Grundschule Lieberose
• DIMOTIKO SCHOLEIO DEFTERAS PANO
• South Harringay Junior School
• CEIP XULIO CAMBA
• ecolehuiron