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Learning environments where languages flourish

Focus: Early language learning
This activity offers support for creating a learning environment at pre-school and primary level where languages are integral to learning and teaching. It provides holistic pathways for classes and schools to establish learning environments that enhance educational potential through languages. A specific focus is on language awareness activities for staff and pupils so as to make schools more language-friendly.

Objectives of the activity

To explore and practise…

  • how to integrate languages into the core of learning and teaching;
  • how to develop language awareness activities for both the staff and pupils so as to include all the languages of the linguistic repertoires as well as the linguistic setting of schools (schoolscape)
  • how to benefit from holistic and inclusive language learning environments

Resources used by the ECML experts

  • EOL matrix – a dynamic tool to create a language friendly learning environment in schools
  • Moodle online professional development course
  • Examples from EOL partner schools which can easily be transferred to other contexts

Target groups

   

  • Teaching staff in pre-school and primary settings
  • Teacher educators
  • Headteachers
  • School inspectors and administrators

Working languages

Trainings can be conducted in English, French and German.

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ECML expert team

Jonas ERIN
Coordinator
France
Ministère de l’Education Nationale de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MENESR)
jonas.erinuu.nl

Kristin BROGAN
Ireland
School of Social Sciences, Institute of
Technology Tralee, North Campus
kristin.brogan.ittgmail.com

Marie-Christine CLERC-GEVREY
France
Rectorat de l’académie de Besançon
marie-christine.clerc-gevreyac-besancon.fr

Ana-Isabel ANDRADE 
Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Departamento de Educacao e Psicologia
aiandradeua.pt
Ana-Isabel ANDRADE 
Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Departamento de Educacao e Psicologia
aiandradeua.pt

Béatrice LEONFORTE 
Switzerland
Sezione dell’insegnamento medio superior, DECS
beatrice.leonforteedu.ti.ch
Béatrice LEONFORTE 
Switzerland
Sezione dell’insegnamento medio superior, DECS
beatrice.leonforteedu.ti.ch

Silvia MINARDI
Italy
Ministero Istruzione, Università e Ricerca

silvia.minardigmail.com

Lea ŠTIBERC
Slovenia
ZRSZ
lea.stibercsiol.net

Ana-Isabel ANDRADE 
Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Departamento de Educacao e Psicologia
aiandradeua.pt
Ana-Isabel ANDRADE 
Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Departamento de Educacao e Psicologia
aiandradeua.pt

Béatrice LEONFORTE 
Switzerland
Sezione dell’insegnamento medio superior, DECS
beatrice.leonforteedu.ti.ch
Béatrice LEONFORTE 
Switzerland
Sezione dell’insegnamento medio superior, DECS
beatrice.leonforteedu.ti.ch

Request this Training and consultancy activity

Requests for a Training and consultancy activity must be submitted via the national ECML representative in the Governing Board. Educational professionals interested in a particular activity should therefore contact their national representative.