Completed Projects

LIFELONG LEARNING Key Activity 2

ActivELP
Mentors Activiate European Language Portfolio through Multimendia

The goal of the project “Mentors Activate European Language Portfolio through Multimedia”(ActivELP) is to stimulate  practical use of the European Language Portfolio (ELP). The ELP was developed and piloted by the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe. Many specific ELPs have been developed covering different types of learners and different languages.  The aim of this tool is to encourage plurilingualism, multilingualism, to motivate and facilitate language learning.

The ActivELP project proposes  two channels: mentoring and multimedia.   Multimedia tools will ensure the access to the ELP by groups and individual learners allowing to practice the ELP through interaction.  Mentoring  will enable us to reach teachers in different education sectors, and to pass on practical skills of using ELP through multimedia.

The specific aims of ActivELP project are

·         to develop a training program for language teachers “ELP in Language Teaching through Multimedia” and mentoring guidelines for implementation of this program;

·          to train  a group of language teachers-mentors from all EU countries;

·          to  test the training program for use of the ELP by language teachers.

 The consortium involves partners from Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Greece, Turkey who  have developed and worked with different types of ELPs; These partners are well experienced  in the use of ICT tools in language teaching and learning, they are experienced in teacher mentoring and they represent different types of learners.

As part of the needs analysis to develop the teacher training programme, project partners have developed a questionnaire for language teachers. It would help a great deal if you could support the project and fill in the following questionnaire by May 10:  >Questionnaire ActivELP...

For more information about the project please check the project’s website > activELP...

ELPBVI

European Language Portfolio for Blind and Visually Impaired

The ELPBVI project is funded by European Commission under the Socrates Lingua 2 Programme.

The main objective is to develop a multilingual European Language Portfolio for the Blind and Visually-Impaired (ELPBVI) with a view to:

• enhancing their motivation to develop, extend and diversify their language skills;
• helping them to reflect on their objectives, ways of and success in language learning;
• developing their capacity for independent learning;
• addressing learning needs in the most comprehensive way, providing suitable format and adaptation of descriptions;
• introducing commonly recognized standards and ensuring transparency and coherence in language learning

The ELPBVI model of the European Language Portfolio addressing the language learning needs of the Blind and Visually-Impaired will put language teaching and learning of the blind and visually impaired in the context of common European standards, in order to:

• to provide transparent and reliable information on language skills and competences of the learners
• to keep records of achievements in their language learning
• to maintain their motivation for language learning
• to plan their learning strategy
• to enhance their plurilingual and intercultural experience
  

There are partners from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Germany and the United Kingdom involved in the project. These partners have developed a questionnaire in order to analyse language needs and develop specifications for this specific target group.

The project team would very much appreciate your assistance in passing on the questionaire to people who are blind or visually impaired. For the German version please click here > DEQuestionaire:  

For further information regarding the project please visit the >project website...

There you'll also find an interview by CHECK.point eLearning with Christel Schneider to download in English. You'll find the original German article in the Online Magazine