LANCELOT - Leonardo II project

LANguage Learning by CEertified Live Online Trainers

( 01/08/2006 – 31/09/2007)

LANCELOT aims to promote online language learning through the professional development of ‘live online language teaching’. Live online language teaching is language tuition held in virtual classrooms via Internet, ‘face-to-face’ with a teacher. This teaching approach offers European citizens, who are learning languages for private or professional reasons, the opportunity to learn from the comfort of their homes or offices without the loss of time incurred in cost-intensive travelling to a traditional classroom. Access to language tuition is facilitated and language learning by qualified online native speakers is enhanced through learner orientated, communicative, ‘live’ lessons.

The LANCELOT project will:

• identify and determine specifications for the live online language teacher
• develop guides and online courses for the training of live online language teachers
• develop and create a certificate for live online language teaching
  

This qualification will give the language teachers a competitive advantage in the market increasing both their employment opportunities and their mobility within the Union. Furthermore, language learners will acquire skills using modern communication technology improving not only communication skills in speaking EU languages but media competence alike. This will improve the foundation of economic collaboration in Europe.
Project major outcomes/products:

• a manual for the live online language teacher, detailing practical guidelines
• a guide for the trainer of live online language teachers, detailing a train-the-trainer programme, providing guidelines on how to acquire skills necessary to teach languages in virtual classrooms (pedagogy/ methodology/ technology)
• a certificate, documenting the qualification acquired through the train-the-trainer programme

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