Cooperation with other partners and stakeholders
Cross Cultural Competences
Author(s): Luc Dierickx, Erik Uytterhoeven
Institution/Organisation: Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (BE)
Cross Cultural Competences is an elective course for students in economics and management. CCC bridges the gap between a student’s academic curriculum in economics and management (including 3 foreign languages) on the one hand and a business oriented multilingual learning environment on the other ...
Language Learning in Secondary School Belgium: eTwinning project (Italian, French, Dutch)
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Sint-Janscollege, Poperinge (BE)
The language initiative described in this school is an eTwinning project carried out in collaboration with an Italian school. This eTwinning project took place during the school year 2006/2007 and had as its theme the exploration of the world of a teenager or in French ‘découvrir la planète des ...
Friedrich-Ebert-Oberschule, Berlin
Author(s): Adrian Bröking
Institution/Organisation: Friedrich-Ebert-Oberschule, Berlin (DE)
The selective school in Berlin was approached by students from the Freie Universität wishing to find partners for their humanitarian work in Guatemala where a school had been destroyed by a landslide. The school saw this as a way of involving pupils in a very worthwhile endeavour at the same ...
Early Language Learning in Primary School Finland: Case study on eTwinning project (English, Finnish)
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Oriveden Keskuskoulu (FI)
The language initiative described for this school is an eTwinning project carried out in collaboration with a Norwegian school. The schools opted for eTwinning as being an ideal vehicle for carrying out a project with younger pupils. The teachers involved were very ICT literate and the eTwinning ...
Ecole publique mixte de Fromont France/St Andrews Primary School, Orkney Islands
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Ecole publique mixte de Fromont France/St Andrews Primary School, Orkney Islands (FR/UK)
Both primary schools are located in isolated, rural surroundings and in neither school have the pupils travelled far outside of their own communities, although the Scottish school organises visits to mainland Scotland when weather permits. The two schools are linked through eTwinning. English and ...
1st Experimental Lyceum of Athens
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: 1st Experimental Lyceum of Athens (GR)
The main language of communication in the school is Greek and the main languages taught are English, French, and German. Of these, English is the main language and is taught to a high level, while both French and German are taught to a medium level. The study of English is compulsory, while French ...
Collaborative projects Second Level School Ireland
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Portmarnock Community School (IE)
This case study examines the work of the French Teacher in the school who is involved in two initiatives with regards to the teaching of French. The first of these is an eTwinning project carried out in partnership with a Belgian school, involving an entire class in the mid age range in the school. ...
IoT Languages Strategy Network
Author(s): Kristin Brogan, Riana Walsh
Institution/Organisation: Institute of Technology Tralee (IE)
What is the IoT Languages Strategy Network?
This is an initiative by IoT language lecturers and builds on existing language expertise within the IoT sector. Our initial focus is to create awareness of Good Practice and to promote language learning by designing and adopting internal ...
I.I.S.S. Vivante-Pitagora
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: I.I.S.S. Vivante-Pitagora (IT)
The project referred to in this case study is a Comenius Exchange project entitled “Partners in patterns” running from 2006 – 2009 with three European partners from Belgium, Sweden, Spain. The project developed from a prize winning project called ‘Crop Circles’ which won an award at ...
eTwinning projects Second Level School Italy (French, Italian)
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Liceo Scientifico "Francesco Cecioni" (IT)
All pupils in the school learn at least one foreign language, and there is a teaching assistant available for each language to compliment the work done by the language teachers. The CLIL method is being introduced into the school next year. All the language teachers make extensive use of ICT in ...
Campus Europae
Author(s): Krzysztof Kaluzny updated and revised by Bernd Justin Jütte (March 2010)
Institution/Organisation: Campus Europae (LU)
The European University Foundation Ð Campus Europae (EUF) is a network of European universities, that strive toward enhancing student exchange among the members of the network. To achieve this goal, the Campus Europae exchange program (CE) has created an infrastructure that not only smoothens ...
Language Learning in Secondary School Poland
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Zespol Szkol Gimnazjum i Szkola Podstawowa nr 13 (PL)
The project entitled ‘English as a factor integrating young Europeans’ was an eTwinning project with a UK partner school – The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, teacher Alan Crease. The project aimed at discovering Polish and British cultures in the context of European culture through ...
Universidade do Minho / Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas (ILCH)
Author(s): Orlando Grossegesse (with Marie Manuelle Costa Silva)
Institution/Organisation: Universidade do Minho / Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas (ILCH) (PT)
Minho is an appealing border-region to Northern Spain in terms of demographic structure (young and re-immigrant population from Europe and South America) and international investment in commerce, industry and research (e.g. recent foundation of the International Iberian Institute for Nanotechnology ...
e.twinning projects – motivation for language learning and intercultural awareness (European Cultural Dimension)
Author(s): Diamantino Silvestre dos Santos Martins
Institution/Organisation: Agrupamento de Escolas D. Afonso III, Faro (PT)
The Escola D. Afonso III is a lower secondary school in Faro, capital of the Algarve, with 500 pupils on roll. Because of the international tourist industry in the Algarve the school puts high priority on the learning of foreign languages to support the future employment prospects of pupils. ...
Escola Secundária de Pinheiro e Rosa
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Escola Secundária de Pinheiro e Rosa (PT)
The name of the project coordinated by this school, “Comunicação à trois bandas” tries to express in a brief manner the spirit: a word in Portuguese, one in French and another in Spanish, three countries; three different realities; three different cultures! All the assignments had two main ...
Outside-in: bringing the community into school – motivation for languages
Author(s): Filomena Dos Reis Conceição
Institution/Organisation: Escola Secundária de Tomás Cabreira, Faro (PT)
The school is an upper secondary technical and vocational school in Faro in the Algarve, a major tourist area in Portugal. Because of the central approach to education in Portugal the school is not free to develop a language strategy but it strongly promotes language learning as a central element ...
Hässelbygårdsskolan Sweden/Siegerland Grundschule Germany
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Hässelbygårdsskolan Sweden/Siegerland Grundschule Germany (SE/DE)
Pupils of both schools have a migrant family background. Wooden dolls represent the pupils and with this personal distance it is easier for them to tell about their 'new life in a new country'. They use English as a means of communication and exchange between the two partner countries. This project ...
Bradley CE Primary School
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Bradley CE Primary School (UK)
Language teaching in the school is still in the early stages of implementation. It was introduced in 2004 as part of the UK government's Primary Foreign Languages programme. The teaching of Spanish in the school is reinforced by an on-going e-twinning project with a school in Spain (Ablitas). Each ...
University of Bristol – Language Gateways into the Professions: French for students of Aerospace and Avionic Engineering
Author(s): Teresa Birks
Institution/Organisation: CILT, the National Centre for Languages (UK)
Four British Universities, Bristol, Loughborough, Kingston and Salford, designed and piloted language modules linked to Engineering and Built Environment Degrees. Within each University, a language expert work closely with a vocational expert to design the modules in consultation with employers ...
University of Kingston - Language Gateways into the Professions: French for students of Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Author(s): Teresa Birks
Institution/Organisation: CILT, the National Centre for Languages (UK)
Four Universities, Bristol, Loughborough, Kingston and Salford, designed and piloted language modules linked to Engineering and Built Environment Degrees. Within each University, a language expert work closely with a vocational expert to design the modules in consultation with employers and ...
University of Loughborough – Language Gateways into the Professions: German for students of Civil Engineering
Author(s): Teresa Birks
Institution/Organisation: CILT, the National Centre for Languages (UK)
Four British universities, Bristol, Loughborough, Kingston and Salford, designed and piloted language modules linked to Engineering and Built Environment Degrees. Within each University, a language expert work closely with a vocational expert to design the modules in consultation with employers ...
University of Salford – Language Gateways into the Professions: Arabic for students on Built Environment degrees
Author(s): Teresa Birks
Institution/Organisation: CILT, the National Centre for Languages (UK)
Four Universities, Bristol, Loughborough, Kingston and Salford, designed and piloted language modules linked to Engineering and Built Environment Degrees. Within each University, a language expert work closely with a vocational expert to design the modules in consultation with employers and ...
Early language initiative – Primary school UK
Author(s): European Schoolnet
Institution/Organisation: Whitehouse Common Primary School, Sutton Coldfield (UK)
The children are exposed to two languages in the school, French, which is taught during a lunchtime club and Spanish, which is taught throughout the school. All the pupils learn Spanish at this point within the curriculum. They average class size in 30. Extensive us is made of ICT tools including ...
Routes to Languages in the West Midlands - Mapping Alternative Progression Routes
Author(s): Henriette Harnisch
Institution/Organisation: University of Wolverhampton (UK)
The Routes into Languages programme is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£4.5 million) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (£3.5 million).
Under the programme, a number of regional consortia have been established where groups of ...
