Let’s Enjoy Dialoguing Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Enjoy Dialoguing

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Pedagogy and didactics; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

LED project stands for Let’s Enjoy Dialoguing.
There is no point in denying in we live in a society where communication means everything.
Technology has helped to create a world where communication has neither frontiers nor limits.
The internet has brought people closer than ever and we are living a in a time in which, no matter where you are, city, village or mountain there is always a way to communicate: via mobile phone, via laptop etc.
It is also a fact that English is the most spoken language nowadays. Technology, Politics, Education, the whole world speaks English and that is why we saw the necessity for our European Project about oral communication.
Students in Europe start learning English as a Secondary language at school at an early age but data show that the results are not the expected ones and they are having problems in communicating.

Five European schools: IES de Infiesto, from Spain, Escuola Comprensiva Don E. Montemurro from Italy, Liceul Ortodox Roman Ciorogariu from Romania, Gjmazium Wiaczyn form Poland and Gimazium Pajurius form Lithuania decided to work together on the idea of oral communication and the project LED was born.

A project aimed to help students improve their Oral Competence as we daresay Oral Competence should be a must for any students to develop. A good oral communication skill is a useful tool for any student in his/her current academic life and further studies or work. Fluency also means confidence for students and this will be also an important tool for them

Due to the delicate economic situation in most of the European schools, teachers are facing big groups of students to teach and thus communication in a foreign language is sometimes difficult in such a context.

That is why we considered LED a necessary project.

Its objective? To improve Oral competence.

How? Through different activities done in class and for and during the Mobilities such as dialogues, sketches, debates and performances.

Through activities and in face to face meetings with their partner students grew an interest for English language and became more and more involved in the project as it kept progressing.

The activities for the project were scheduled in five parts, each part corresponding with a Mobility of the project. All the activities had a previous preparation time at the partners’ schools, a development during the Mobilities and an analysis of the results with the evaluation activities.

The conductive thread of all the activities was students’ communication. There was one common activity included in all the Mobilities: the school and city presentation as it was considered a very interesting activity to increase knowledge about the partners.
The rest of the activities of the project were those initially scheduled but a little better defined.

For the Mobility in Poland the students did two interviews in English to important characters: the editor of the newspaper the Express Ilustrowany and the dancers of the ballet: The Nutcracker and also presented a Christmas Festival with different performances.
For the Mobility in Lithuania the topic was debates and students performed some in regional teams and two in international teams. Another successful activity was to teach the partners how to dance a traditional dance of each country and then to dance it all together in an International Dance Festival.

For the Mobility in Romania the topic was “our important characters”. Each country presented a selection of important characters orally, explaining the biography of the character and with short sketches and performances about her/him.

For the Mobility in Italy each school prepared “a story of their own” and the result were different performances about different cultural aspects of the different countries in the project. Each school also prepared different “Communication Games” which were explained in English to the partners during the mobility and after that students played them.

For the Mobility in Spain all the schools prepared different activities: a school presentation, a cultural story or legend or whatever about their country their and a role in the Final International Play. These roles had been delivered beforehand by the author and also included a musical part. Everything was presented in the Final International Festival during the last mobility in Spain.

The project’s success was clearly seen in the different schools and in the community. It had a highly ascendant progression, with a “shy” beginning as students did not feel confident enough in the first steps and an astonishing ending, considering the number of students who performed and who wanted to perform and couldn’t do it, in the Final performance of the project.

Both schools and communities received the project with open arms and collaborated in hosting students, setting up activities, creating decorations etc. The Project dissemination in the Internet will help to maintain its durability, especially the eGuide on or

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 81040 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES de Infiesto & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Liceul Ortodox “Episcop Roman Ciorogariu”
• I.C. MONTEMURRO
• Silales r. Pajurio Stanislovo Birziskio gimnazija
• Gimnazjum im.W.St. Reymonta w Wiaczyniu Dolnym