European Centre for Modern Languages

Antoinette Camilleri

The Council of Europe stresses the importance of multilingualism in society and of individual plurilingual competence as means to social cohesion. Ultimately, it is within the school that the necessary innovations need to take place. The case studies presented in this publication are an authentic illustration of how this is being realised in different contexts and what successes and challenges it presents. By bringing these innovative language education programmes and school profiles to the fore, its participating in the creation of a new paradigm of school leadership whereby pupils, parents and the local community, instead of being excluded, controlled and forgotten become actively involved in language endeavours. Similarly, teachers can move on from being simply the executors of education programmes to becoming participants in drawing up, implementing and evaluating school policies.

Promoting Linguistic Diversity and Whole-school Development

Nieuwkomers die de taal en cultuur van het gastland niet kennen, botsen vaak op misverstanden in de communicatie. In dit boek wordt een aantal van deze "anekdotes" gebruikt bij klasactiviteiten, met de bedoeling de interculturele competentie van leerlingen te bevorderen. Deze methodiek wordt ook "Storyline" genoemd.

L'utilisation D'anecdotes Dans Le Développement de la Compétence Interculturelle

Comme C'est Bizarre!

Pâter Râdai

The Status of Language Educators

Council of Europe

Vee Harris

This book provides a practical and theoretical guide to incorporating language learning strategies in second language learning and teaching. It presents the views of learners as well as the practical experiences of teachers involved, and considers how to deal with problems in strategy training. The importance of metacognition is emphasised throughout. The book is the result of a project by an international group of teachers supported by the European Centre for Modern Languages.

Exploring Strategy Instruction in Language Classrooms Across Europe

Helping Learners Learn

Bilan de l'action et synthèse des travaux du CELV dans différents domaines de recherche : enseignement bilingue ; autonomie de l'élève ; formation des enseignants ; médias / technologies de l'information et de la communication ; éveil interculturel ; enseignement précoce des langues.

présentation et évaluation des travaux menés par le CELV de 1995 à 1999

Collections thématiques

Ildikó Lázár

L'objectif principal de l'ensemble du projet consistait à favoriser l'intégration d'une formation à la communication interculturelle dans la formation des enseignants en Europe. Le travail de recherche et de développement décrit dans cette publication entend contribuer à l'intégration de la formation à la communication interculturelle aux programmes de formation des enseignants.

Incorporating Intercultural Communicative Competence in Language Teaching Education

Geneviève Zarate

Alors que la majorité des innovations en didactique des langues se manifeste dans la création de nouveaux outils pour l'enseignement, le projet "Médiation culturelle et didactique des langues" a choisi une autre voie, en adoptant une démarche de formation à la recherche par la recherche. C'est dire qu'il a tenté de résoudre plusieurs défis : vivre la pluralité des cultures de formation des enseignants comme une source d'innovation, plutôt que comme un obstacle ; adopter un cadre pluridisciplinaire, introduisant des références en usage dans les sciences sociales pour développer une réflexion sur le rôle des langues dans la cohésion sociale ; apporter un faisceau de réponses à une question jusqu'à maintenant peu présente dans le champ de la didactique des langues et des cultures "Quelle est la place de la médiation culturelle ?" (4e de couv.).

Cultural Mediation in Language Learning and Teaching

Michaela Čaňková

The aim of this publication is to assist teacher educators and language teachers in shifting the focus from linguistic competence to intercultural communicative competence. The printed booklet of the present guide contains the introductions to: definitions of key terms in intercultural communication; planning and designing intercultural communication courses and workshops; teaching/training methods and materials; and assessing intercultural communicative competence. The materials on the accompanying CD-ROM include: the theoretical background to teaching language and culture; detailed workshop and course planning guidelines; teaching materials and activities based on literature, films and songs; guidelines and tasks for assessment and descriptors of competences; intercultural communication workshop reports; and our research articles about the intercultural dimension of foreign language teaching (FIT).--Publisher's description.

A Guide for Language Teachers and Teacher Educators

Developing and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

The European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) works to promote innovations in the teaching and learning of modern languages. This volume contains the proceedings of the third international colloquy which was attended by experts from over 30 countries and was organised in co-operation with the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture.

Living Together in Europe in the 21st Century : the Challenge of Plurilingual and Multicultural Communication and Dialogue

Living Together

George Camilleri

This text is one of a series of six studies which present the work carried out at the European Centre for Modern Languages. The aim of the series is to highlight the results already achieved and provide a point of departure for the future work of the ECML.

Introducing Learner Autonomy in Teacher Education

Anne-Brit Fenner

Malta. Ministry of Education and National Culture

This study contains a number of articles which consider concepts in foreign language teaching and learning relating to: dialogue, communication, intercultural awareness, language awareness, and the roles of teacher and learner. It attempts to widen the scope of the discussion about language and culture awareness by including aspects of linguistic, literary, philosophical, and teaching theories from the authors' own cultures, as well as from other traditions.

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