About The Project
In 2021, six partner organizations from Sweden, Finland, Turkey, Portugal, Czech Republic and Romania set up a partnership that led to the project “Language Development through Digital Tools”.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become an ordinary part of both our social and learning experiences today and digital learning environments and tools enrich the learning process. In the foreign language teaching process, new technologies and approaches have been put into practice in order to enable effective and efficient learning in the process of teaching 4 skills (speaking, writing, listening and reading) and two areas (grammar and vocabulary) based on communication. One of these approaches is CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) training management. Academic English education (CLIL) (Content and Language Integrated Learning) includes teaching the content of different disciplines, such as for example: Mathematics, History, Geography, Science, Social Sciences, Citizenship, as well as teaching a foreign language.
During the project preparation phase, the partners conducted the following SWOT analysis:
- Strengths: Including trainers with digital competencies, effective communication between institutions, applicability of the outputs to be obtained.
- Weaknesses: The coordinator institution does not have Erasmus + experience, some teachers do not speak foreign languages in interdisciplinary studies.
- Opportunities: With the project, teachers who do not speak foreign languages learn foreign languages, discover innovative learning methods by educators, increase their competence in using a MOOC platform.
- Threats: Technical problems.
Having all this in mind, the main objectives of our project are:
- to improve the competencies of our foreign language teachers with an interdisciplinary approach in language development.
- to improve the foreign language development, digital skills and competencies of all educators, students and all other people.
- to increase the efficiency of language teaching and learning by systematically supporting the introduction of innovative methods such as bilingual teaching and the use of digital tools in our institutions.
- to improve the cultural awareness of our teachers.
to develop teachers’ professional competencies in CLIL education method and provide deep learning.