VOLL = Vocationally oriented language learning

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Exemplary language learning modules are provided in
Bulgarian, English, German, Norwegian, Polish, Russian.
Access to the VOLL courses is possible, but needs a password to be obtained from the EUROVOLT project partner responsible. Below you have access to some sample courses and sample units.
Additionally, you can access sample units from EUROVOLT trainees' courses for
English, French, and Italian at the bottom.


Target groups for the Exemplar Language Modules are:

  • Bulgarian as a foreign language for office clerks in the tourism industry (CEF Level A/B), by ECET Sofia, Bulgaria (Log in as "Guest".)
  • English as a foreign language for Austrian prison officers (Level B 1/B 2), Verband Wiener Volksbildung (Log in instructions: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt).
  • English for Students of Social Sciences (Level B 2/C 1, UNICERT) (for TEACHERS / GUESTS), Click button "Guest", University of Potsdam
    NB.:
    - This course was reviewed in Babylonia 2/2007 by Dr. Dieter Kranz, Universität Münster, Germany.
    ("The changing learning landsdscape. Best practice samples of blended learning concepts, pp. 13-18 in the printed version.)
    - Additionnally, the course was shortlisted (Category Berufliche Bildung und Hochschule 3) for the DIGITA award in Germany in 2008.
  • English for Psychology (Level B/C)
    SWPS Learning Centre, Poland. A few units are available as a "teaser":
    (Log in instructions: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
    NB.:
    This course was also adopted and adapted by Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki (The University of Economy Bydgoszcz, Poland)
    Info about the university in Polish
    Info about the university in English
  • Gostinyjdvor Project:
    Norwegian for Public Administration and Language Teachers in Russia (Level A) AND Russian for Norwegian Pupils VK1 and VK2, upper secondary school (Level A), see more.
    (Log in: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
    Description of Russian for Norwegian Pupils VK1 and VK2 in Norwegian
    Nordland Fylkeskommune (NFK Norway, Barents Project)
  • German as a foreign language: Online portfolio learning for student engineers and scientists (Level B, ECTS credits)
    (Log in: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
    University of Southampton
  • Polish as a foreign language for diplomacy and politics (Level B/C)
    (Log in: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
    SWPS Learning Centre, Poland


Sample units from EUROVOLT trainees' courses:

  • English for Students of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
    (Jana Čepičková, University of Westbohemia)
    (Log in: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
    Among others, there is a nice task dealing with online concordancing.
  • English for the Tourist Industry
    (Ulrike Matiegka, Volkshochschule Floridsdorf Wien)
    (Log in: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
  • English for Students of Music and Drama, Upper Secondary in Nordland, Norway (Camilla Hoff Lambine, NFK Norway)
    (Log in: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
    - CLIL Example: CLIL refers to any 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, see more.
    - In the online course, "English for pupils", you can also access/download two presentation video clips of the pupils, one dealing with Music/English project work and the other one with Performing Shakespeare, "Much ado about nothing" (.mp4 files, RealPlayer needed, takes some time to download - ADSL: one minute, ISDN: appr. 20 min.).
    NB.: The video clip "Music/English project" work is included in the EUROVOLT CD!
  • Lycée économique pour adultes (BHAK Wien 10)
    French for Lycée économique pour adultes (BHAK Wien 10)
    Astrid Silbert, trainee in the Eurovolt_2 pilot course on it`slearning, created some units in Moodle.
    - Especially see the example of a webquest, Un voyage à Paris
    - Excercise with "Audacity" and a memory stick.
    (Log in: Click "GAST-Login". Then fill in Zugangsschlüssel (access key): eurovolt and click button "Tragen Sie mich in diesem Kurs ein".)
  • Italian for Beginners, a teaser (Alessia Plutino, University of Southampton)
    (Log in: name=testeurovolt, password=testeurovolt)
    The complete course was developed in Blackboard, the VLE of the University of Southampton.




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