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Miscelleanous concerning language education in Europe

http://www.elearningguides.net/ (2005 - 2008)
ODLAC: The overall objective of this 2.5-year project was to contribute to the quality of technology-enhanced foreign language learning in different educational institutions (secondary schools, universities, adult education) in European countries. This enhancement was aimed at by means of both an improvement of language learning programmes and a better use of the related financial and personnel resources. The focus of the project design was on the implementation aspects of this quality programme, with particular attention to transferability (specific objective). A policy for a more innovative practice in language learning in schools, universities and adult education was the long-term objective of the project outputs.

On the basis of the Survey's results, three Implementation Guides were drawn up for language learners/teachers/trainers/counselors and representatives of secondary schools, universities, adult education institutions interested in technology-enhanced language learning programmes. The Guides intended to support the target groups in implementing efficient and, possibly, resource-saving blended learning programmes. After a testing phase, the Guides were published in EN and in the 6 partner national languages.

EUROPASS
Opening doors to learning and working in Europe
What is Europass?
Whether you are planning to enrol in an education or training programme, looking for a job, or getting experience abroad, it is important to be able to make your skills and competences clearly understood.
Europass is a new way of helping people to:
* make their skills and qualifications clearly and easily understood in Europe (European Union, EFTA/EEA and candidate countries)
* move anywhere in Europe.
The European Language Passport is an integral part of EUROPASS!

European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML, Graz, Austria)
Aim of the ECML is to promote Language Education in Europe. The Council of Europe has created the European Centre for Modern Languages - a unique institution whose mission is to encourage excellence and innovation in language teaching and to help Europeans learn languages more efficiently.
http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/mtp2e-overview.htm
ECML Project results (project websites, abstracts, flyers, CDs ...) concerning Social Cohesion (2004-2007) e.g.
A1. VALEUR - Valuing all languages in Europe
B1. ICCinTE Intercultural communication training in teacher education
B2. LEA Language educator awareness
B3. ICOPROMO Intercultural competence for professional mobility
C1. CoCoCop Cohésion des compétences, cohérence des principes (Coherence of principles, cohesion of competences: exploring theories and designing materials for teacher education)
C3. FTE From Profile to Portfolio: A framework for reflection in language teacher education, see http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/Fte/html/FTE_E_Results.htm
C6. ELP_TT Training teachers to use the European Language Portfolio etc.

Fremmedspraksenteret i Halden, Norge
One aim of the Fremmedspraksenteret is to promote both the language passport and EUROPASS. It is a national resource centre for the teaching of foreign languages in primary and secondary education and is to make efforts to ensure that the teaching of foreign languages is of a high quality. The centre is to contribute towards Norway becoming a country whose inhabitants have a high level of proficiency in many foreign languages, European and non-European.

CEBS Austria
Center for Vocationally oriented Language Learning is an Austrian national ministry institution with the commitment of coordinating, planning and servicing in-service training for foreign language teachers at Upper Secondary level in the Vocational and Technical Sectors. As an advisor to national curriculum design committees it is the national switchboard for "language education and the business world" and a catalyst to national and European education policies and initiatives. The EUROVOLT team is very glad that CEBS has accepted EUROVOLT as a partner.

Framework for the European survey on language competences (2009, pdf)

The First Validated Language Portfolio for Adults in Austria 2007 @ Verband Österreichischer Volkshochschulen (VÖV) [site in German]; at the bottom of the page
CEFR Assessement Grids download available in German, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Croatian, and Turkish.

The European Language Portfolio @ Council of Europe

Validated Language Portfolios in many different languages @ Council of Europe

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

CLIL Compendium Online
CLIL refers to ay dual-focused educational context in which an additional language, thus not usually the first language of the learners involved, is used as a medium in the teaching and learning of non-language content.
http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/CLILmatrix/index.htm The CLIL Matrix project by ECML

The European Language Certificates (telc)
The European Language Certificates are language examinations at four levels of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework. The examinations are run by the Weiterbildungs-Testsysteme GmbH, based in Frankfurt, Germany. The examinations, originally developed for adult education centres (VHS) in Germany, can be taken in 15 European countries.

LEONARDO LANGUAGE PRODUCTS by 2007

SprachenNetz: Fremdsprachen im Beruf (Blog in German):
http://sprachennetz.blogspot.com/search/label/Fremdsprachen%20im%20Beruf

Links checked 11.6.2009


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