Words Unite Us Erasmus Project

Project Title

Words Unite Us

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

We come from very different cultures and cultures, we have different ways of living and learning, even different beliefs but we are united by the same desire: to broaden our horizont and devellop the skills so necessary for ensuring our chances of succeeding in general not only in our countries but in Europe, our bigger home.
We come together in order to grow by learning from each-other and with each other, sharing best practices and creating best practices, learning or develloping leanguage learning skills while playing, dancing, singing, while learning about different subjects together. The new language learned will only be a bridge bringing us together and helping us become friends but it will also be a purpose, one not so visible because it will be presented more as a required skill in the project.
All the project is meant to be a way of encouraging and supporting the acquiring of the absolutely necessary language skill but will also help more students benefit from the extraordinary benefits of a cultural exchange.Languages are an inspiration and it’s very interesting to learn about countries other than your own. Language is not only part of how we define culture, it also reflects culture. Thus, the culture associated with a language cannot be learned in a few lessons about celebrations, folk songs, or costumes of the area in which the language is spoken. Culture is a much broader concept that is inherently tied to many of the linguistic concepts taught in second language classes. It is, first and foremost, crucial to emphasize that learning a language is not simply tantamount to studying syntactic structures or memorizing new vocabularies and expressions. Language learning is comprised of grammatical competence, language proficiency, as well as culture competence, and so its intention is, or should be, to communicate effectively and minimize cross-cultural misunderstandings. From all above, it is evident that, much as culture learning has gained insights into effective communication, we should undergirding and inspire students’ interests in culture learn. We have already done correspondence projects which is an e-twinning project with European friends for two years. Now it’s time to carry out a strategic partnership in order to know our European friends closer and to enable our students communicate in basic level with them using all languages as well as improving their English. This project is essential not only for students but also for the teachers. Teachers will have experience of having lessons with pupils who do not know their instructor’s mother language and eventually, this will improve and diversify our teaching methods which we are used to do traditionally. Teachers will also practice ICT techniques to perform more effective language teaching during lesson.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 125820 Eur

Project Coordinator

SCOALA GIMNAZIALA ION MARES VULCANA-BAI & Country: RO

Project Partners

• CEIP ADELA SANTANA
• CDG”Slance”
• Zespól Szkolno- Przedszkolny nr 3
• Vilniaus “Genio” pradine mokykla
• School of European Education
• Viesites Secondary school