The project 'Let's Become Language-Friendly Schools!' is a joint initiative of four secondary schools (students aged 14-17) in Turkey(coordinator), Italy,Spain, Romania and IBulgaria. The aim of the project is to improve general language skills of our students and permanently improve the effectiveness of foreign language teaching in all the partner organisations. In order to achieve it, we are planning to make our teaching innovative and more appealing to our students, as well as make the environment in which they live and learn more language-friendly. Doing it by means of an international cooperation, we intend to create opportunities for informal language learning and intercultural exchanges, which are important factors in a foreign language acquisition. We also want to involve all families in the learning process, which will happen thanks to hosting the foreign students in their homes. Working in an international environment we want to focus on an important aspect of the language and culture which is PROVERBS and SAYINGS in each of the national languages, which will be a good opportunity for cultural exchange. It will also introduce an aspect of multilingual learning into our project. To make it more appealing to our teenage students, we will connect it to the topics that really interest young people, such as DANCE, DRAMA, MUSIC ,CUISINES and SPORTS. By project activities we want to reach all the students in our schools. Not only those who are eager to participate in any extra activities, take private English lessons and travel abroad with their families, but those who are less motivated and come from less advantaged backgrounds too. Thus, activities for all the classes will be planned, including group work within their regular English lessons, using ICT as a routine, enabling the students to have live contacts with other English language speakers from all over Europe. We intend to establish new routines and give special attention to English language teaching, hoping that the project “Let’s Become Language-Friendly Schools!” will make the English language visible and alive in our schools, even long after the project has finished.
The project 'Let's Become Language-Friendly Schools!' is a joint initiative of four secondary schools (students aged 14-17) in Turkey(coordinator), Italy,Spain, Romania and IBulgaria. The aim of the project is to improve general language skills of our students and permanently improve the effectiveness of foreign language teaching in all the partner organisations. In order to achieve it, we are planning to make our teaching innovative and more appealing to our students, as well as make the environment in which they live and learn more language-friendly. Doing it by means of an international cooperation, we intend to create opportunities for informal language learning and intercultural exchanges, which are important factors in a foreign language acquisition. We also want to involve all families in the learning process, which will happen thanks to hosting the foreign students in their homes. Working in an international environment we want to focus on an important aspect of the language and culture which is PROVERBS and SAYINGS in each of the national languages, which will be a good opportunity for cultural exchange. It will also introduce an aspect of multilingual learning into our project. To make it more appealing to our teenage students, we will connect it to the topics that really interest young people, such as DANCE, DRAMA, MUSIC ,CUISINES and SPORTS. By project activities we want to reach all the students in our schools. Not only those who are eager to participate in any extra activities, take private English lessons and travel abroad with their families, but those who are less motivated and come from less advantaged backgrounds too. Thus, activities for all the classes will be planned, including group work within their regular English lessons, using ICT as a routine, enabling the students to have live contacts with other English language speakers from all over Europe. We intend to establish new routines and give special attention to English language teaching, hoping that the project “Let’s Become Language-Friendly Schools!” will make the English language visible and alive in our schools, even long after the project has finished.