Learning a living language, a necessary step in becoming a future European actor Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning a living language, a necessary step in becoming a future European actor

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

THE CONTEXT:
There was an existing partnership between the French and the Spanish schools (a cultural and language exchange). Both schools wanted another dimension for our cooperation.
When a school from Slovakia (Gymnázium Matky Alexie) contacted Assomption Bellevue, it seemed quite interesting to offer the teachers from the school to be part of the project. They were at once highly interested.
Since the exchange is organized by language teachers, the teachers thought teaching and learning languages deserved careful attention.
Because we are convinced of the role of language teachers in the development of future European actors, we thought up this project: learning languages, an essential element in the development of future European actors.
Our final production will be the making of a video report.

OUR OBJECTIVES:
– Teamwork.
– Sharing our experiences.
– Creating a long-term partnership.
– Reinforcing the social, cultural and language skills of the pupils.
– Giving meaning to the learning of languages.
– Making mobility a main asset for the future student and professional life of our pupils.
– Developing the pupils’ sense of belonging to the European Union.
PARTICIPANTS:
The group will be composed of 18 students (6 Spanish pupils, 6 Slovak pupils and 6 French pupils) and 6 coordinators (4 language teachers and 2 human sciences teachers).
All the participants will have the desire to get involved in the project, to work as a team and to broaden their cultural, educational and linguistic knowledge.

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES
First year:
-In Lyon, with all the participants:
Initial contact, introduction of each participant, presentation of the host city and school.
Training time: how to create a survey.
Creation of the survey in multicultural groups.
Oral presentation of a member of the European parliament about European citizenship.
Creation of a website common to all three schools (a kind of blog about our project).
Interviews of pupils and Language teachers and observations of foreign language classes.
– Remote working
Finishing the drafting of the survey
Translating the survey as required for the different surveyed countries.
Distribution of the survey among the 3 schools (France, Slovakia and Spain)
– In Madrid, with all the participants:
Presentation of the host city and school.
Interviews of pupils and Language teachers and observations of foreign language classes.

Second year:
– In Bratislava, with all the participants:
Interviews of pupils and Language teachers and observations of foreign language classes.
Training time: how to process and analyze the data from a survey.
Analyzing the results of the survey and comparing the results to our observations and interviews.
– Remote working:
Continuing the analysis.
Selecting the clips we want to use in the final video.
– In Brussels or Strasbourg:
Visiting either the European commission or the European Parliament.
Attending a European Session.
Shooting the video about the survey’s results and the conclusion sequences.
Training time: how to shoot and edit a video.
– Remote working:
Editing and subtitling the video (report).

METHODOLOGY
We will base our methodology on:
– Cooperative teaching methods.
– Cross-curricular collaboration.
– Innovative educational skills.

IMPACT, RESULTS AND ADVANTAGES
– Improving the pupils’ language skills.
– Motivating the pupils with a unifying project and innovative techniques which give a meaning to the learning process.
– Making the work durable between the two collaborating schools.
– Promoting exchanges between European pupils.
– Putting our everyday educational skills in perspective.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 71010 Eur

Project Coordinator

AGEA BELLEVUE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Gymnazium Matky Alexie, Jesenskeho 4/A, 811 02 Bratislava
• Colegio Asuncion Vallecas