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31.03.2020
Addressing the needs of language professionals in times of Covid-19: new ECML resource website “e-lang”
Calling all language professionals!!
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Are you a language teacher in upper secondary or in the university sector now adapting to the challenge of delivering your classes online? Would you like to discover motivating real-world tasks for your learners which will help develop their learner autonomy?
Are you a language teacher educator looking for creative ways to develop your teachers’ digital literacy skills, so that they in turn can support their language learners?
Are you a language researcher, interested in pedagogies based on social interaction?
If so, this new open-access resource website, developed through expert cooperation in the field of language education across geographic Europe and beyond, is most definitely for you:
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Digital literacy
for the teaching and learning of languages
www.ecml.at/elang
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Click on the links below to go directly to the different resources:
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European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe
Promoting excellence in language education
Centre européen pour les langues vivantes du Conseil de l´Europe
Pour l’excellence dans l’éducation aux langues
A - 8020 Graz, Nikolaiplatz 4
T +43 316 323554
F +43 316 323554-4
www.ecml.at
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27.05.2019
Last meeting of the e-lang team - Online access to the project work now available
On 11 and 12 October 2018, the e-lang project "Digital literacy for the teaching and learning of languages" held its third and final expert meeting at the ECML headquarters. This meeting brought together the members of the team as well as its two Canadian associate partners. It provided the opportunity to finalise several of the project's flagship products.
The training platform was "redesigned" and launched. Several modules are now available online: didactic foundations of the project, real-world tasks (key element of the project), informal language learning, oral and written reception, oral interaction as well as grammatical and intercultural competences. Access to all the online material is free: https://moodle.e-lang.ecml.at/ (click on "Log in as a guest" to access the modules).
The pedagogical framework that presents the foundations of the project was also finalised. It can now be downloaded for free from the project website. It is available both in French and in English: http://www.ecml.at/e-lang.
The team held a webinar which was attended by 60 participants from all over the world. This online seminar gave the team the opportunity to present the project and its training contents and to reply to queries from the participants. The recording of the webinar can be accessed on the project website.
The project has been closed since the end of 2018, all modules will now be finalized and available on the Moodle platform of the e-lang project.
We invite you to visit our website and the training platform to discover what the e-lang team has developed for you.
Christian Ollivier (coordinator, France), Catherine Jeanneau (Ireland), Ulrike Szigeti (Austria), Katerina Zourou (Greece), Catherine Caws (Canada), Marie-Josée Hamel (Canada)
09.10.2018
E-lang webinar "Real world tasks, digital resources and autonomy": Friday 12 October, 16:30-18:00 (CET)
Description
This webinar will introduce participants to the e-lang project (Towards Digital Literacy for Language Teaching and Learning): http://www.ecml.at/e-lang (project of the European Center of Modern Languages).
In this two-part webinar, Christian Ollivier, project coordinator, and the e-lang team will first present the socio-interactional approach and the notion of real-world tasks. This presentation will be illustrated by concrete examples that can be implemented on web 2.0 sites. It will demonstrate the value of real-world tasks in developing action and communicative competences.
In the second part, the e-lang team will show how the use of digital resources and tools can help learners to:
(a) carry out tasks, and
(b) develop their autonomy while enriching their personal learning environments.
Throughout the webinar, attendees will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the content of the e-lang project training platform.
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Target audience: language teachers, teacher trainers, school inspectors for modern foreign languages.
Languages: the webinar held in English and French.
Registration closed.