“LEARNING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY E-TOOLS” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“LEARNING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY E-TOOLS”

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 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Living in a digital revolutionary era requires that new methodologies and approaches must be used in the teaching field.
In this regard, teaching English as a foreign language for seniors and adult learners makes necessary to upgrade adult teachers’ digital competencies to better use e-tools during their lessons.
Indeed, many EFL (English as Foreign Language) adult teachers are interested in experimenting new methodologies suited for teaching to adults in their classes.
One of the most useful techniques to attract adult and seniors students to learn foreign languages is Digital Storytelling (DST) method.
Adult students enjoy listening to the stories since the narration has the power to stimulate curiosity and imagination.
Therefore, since adult and seniors people choose to learn a language for different needs out of the schemes, digital storytelling combined with other e-tools could be a very useful tool to teach/learn foreign languages in adult classrooms in all educational contexts.
Learning English as Foreign Language by E-tools (LEaFLEt) project is promoted by Fundacja Creator in Poland. Partners of this strategic partnership come from Poland, Italy, Spain, Estonia and Bulgaria and most of them have already gained experience in the adult educational field and in several Erasmus+ programs.
The project aim is to strengthen the skills and competencies of EFL adult teachers, trainers and providers who work in different adult learning contexts, adult schools, senior clubs, and in Third Age Universities, with people aged 50+, minorities groups, unemployed adults, students and retired people.
Thanks to the use of digital stories in English classroom we aim to:
•Motivate and encourage active participation of adult students’ groups in learning English process.
•Encourage the use of imagination and creativity.
•Encourage the cooperative learning among students.

Our Partnership specific objective are:
-To improve English teachers’ digital competencies.
-To develop students’ languages skills.
-To develop a teaching methodology using e-tools such as digital storytelling.
-To expand the lexicon using different words that come out of the story building process.
-To improve the understanding and pronunciation using videos and audios as part of digital story play.
-To create a stimulating and fun learning environment using fascinating and meaningful stories.
-To promote the DST as learning tool to promote and develop an intercultural language education not taking into account the context and the language level.

During the one planned short-term joint staff training event, participants will have the chance to achieve the project objectives in learning e-tools which are useful to motivate and update adult students in the English learning process.
Our partnership aims also to produce the following tangible learning outcomes:
– Didactic materials elaboration for training course.
– LEaFLET dedicated FB page and social media resources implementation.
– LEaFLET virtual toolkit for adult English teachers.
– Video stories made by adult groups of learners in each partner country.
– LEaFLET Vademecum (brief guide-line handbook) for English teachers.

According to the target group identified by each partner, the different levels of impact are expected in this project on the following participants : English teachers, partner organizations’ staff, adult and seniors students, adult educational organizations in partner countries and all around Europe.

In a long term perspective, through the creation of a new European network among partners’ organizations we will guarantee the evolving of our work after the cycle-life of the project promoting Erasmus+ programs among all European citizens that can benefit from our project. Seniors and adult learners lead by English languages’ teachers can improve their English using e-tools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 41420 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja CREATOR & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Mittetulundusühing EURIKA
• FORMACION Y ASESORES EN SELECCION Y EMPLEO, SL
• Association “To Preserve The Woman”
• LUETEC