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LINGO+

Alliance for multilingual and multicultural teacher training

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Training for teachers

Within our project we would like to provide an accessible online platform for school teachers across Europe to acquire the principals of multilingualism and intercultural awareness and learn how to incorporate them in their daily routine.

Acquire Abilities

Facilitating the acquisition of linguistic and intercultural abilities;

Promote

Promoting coordination of lessons, with a view to greater coherence and synergy between the learning of foreign, regional, minority and classical languages, the language(s) of schooling, and also the language dimension of all subjects;

Support Teachers

Supporting teachers to acquire the principals of multilingualism and intercultural awareness and learn how to incorporate them in their daily routine;

Online Courses

Developing both dimensions of language (linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic knowledge, skills and existential competences) and cultural (knowledge, skills and existential competencies relevant to social groups who speak a given language and their cultures) competencies;

Multilingualism

Develop multilingualism competencies emphasising their social role in terms of employability, social relations and tolerance towards other cultures;

Self Development

Coaching to keep your focus and develop you both in a professional and personal way.

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About the project

The project "LINGO+" is incepted according to the Council of Europe's policy to promote plurilingualism, linguistic diversity and language learning in the field of education. Linguistic diversity is also enshrined in Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

The European context is extremely significant, with three alphabets and 24 official languages, and some 60 other languages spoken in particular regions or by specific groups.

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Who is Lingo+ for?

The educational project "LINGO+" intends to bridge the gap between schools and teaching in multilingual and multicultural settings creating a set of tools and teaching materials addressed to:

Teachers of foreign languages, as they are on the front line in teaching one or more languages;
Teachers of other subjects that would like to teach in other languages (e.g. CLIL);
Students of all ages, even if we believe our tools will be especially (but not only) implemented by high-schools.

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The Results

The Results of the project

A Methodological Guide

A Methodological Guide for a role-model bilingual and plurilingual education for teachers with a repository of the best bilingual and plurilingual existing teaching practices.

Development of educational tools

Development of educational tools and designed game-based and project-based activities that could be used in a classroom.

Development of a platform with video courses

Development of a platform with video courses for teachers combining classes about bilingualism and plurilingualism together with cultural intelligence, intercultural communication, and multicultural education providing teachers with knowledge, skills and existential competencies relevant to an understanding of other cultures and cultural diversity, prompting reflective and critical thinking about one's own culture.

Development of an online self-assessment questionnaire

Development of an online self-assessment questionnaire, with pre-recorded recommendations, an online tutorial explaining how to use the repository, video courses and developed tools and games.

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Methodology

The methodology practiced for process and product incorporates three key features:

Coverage, ensuring that all participants in the project and beyond have formal and effective access to all information and material;
Transferability, securing the reproducibility of the process and results to more spheres other than language teaching;
Transparency, ensuring access to user-friendly information, who, how, when and what was done at any time of the project development and beyond.

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Impact

At a local and regional level, we aim to have an impact on schools and teachers close to our headquarters and that we may reach during the implementation/testing phases. The impact will be also monitored in the longer term by monitoring the following numbers:

- Development of skills of at least 5000 professionals (language teachers at schools and graduates of linguistics departments) towards bilingual/plurilingual teaching.

- Empowerment and inspiration of 2000 students and young people to learn languages and support their bilingual and plurilingual status within the duration of the project.

Taking into account all our national and international networks together, we aim to disseminate the project to at least 10.000 people. All these results will be included in the final evaluation report.

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Outputs

Role-models in bilingual school education

We aim at generating an actionable, transferable and deployable framework to provide practical tools for teachers via the creation of a "role-model" figure. A set of criteria is defined to establish the framework in which good practices are identified and selected, such as pedagogical framework; concepts; potential for content and language integrated learning (CLIL); transferability; cognitive, meta-cognitive and socio-affective learning strategies; teachers' fluent, hybrid, multimodal and creative communicative practices; educational programmes in the public and private arenas; potential for biliteracy competences; competences (e.g. attention and task-switching capacities, environmental and multicultural changes adaptability, etc.); testing and assessment.

"Playing with multilingualism" tool-kit

The tool-kit is composed of educational tools and designed game-based activities, as well as tasks promoting a project-based approach in a classroom to promote multilingualism. We expect a presentation with games and project-based activities that could be used to teach foreign languages. Some will be digital, some will not, but there will be step-to-step procedures to implement them. It is extremely important that teachers are able to implement them in class and at school in the future.

MMTT - Multilingual and Multicultural Teacher Training Video Courses

The developed platfrom and the courses are for language teachers that seek preparation for bilingual and multilingual educational programmes. Participants will have pre-recorded classes and materials about bilingualism and plurilingualism under the studies of neuroscience, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics where each one completes the other so that educators can have a full understanding of L2 and L3 acquisition process and learning. Participants will also develop projects for their bilingual and multilingual programmes.

Online self-assessment tool

Teachers will monitor their own development and know the development of their domain and competency areas on the topic. Moreover, they will take part in creating a library of recommendations with a video tutorial and get a progress plan to support their in-classroom activities.

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