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TEACHING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE FOR INTEGRATION THROUGH OUTDOOR LEARNING AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS

2021-2-LT01-KA210-SCH-0000507772021Small-scale partnerships in school educationfinalizedGood practice
Countries: LT|SE · Grant: €60,000
Development of training coursesInclusion, promoting equality and non-discriminationPedagogy and didactics

Objectives

First of all, a workshop on outdoor learning in Sweden was organised, which helped to purify the methodological guidelines and share good experience between partner countries; Secondly, a guide on foreign language teaching was developed which consist of two parts, that is theoretical framework and practical material. Thirdly, a teachers training program was developed which will be accredited in Lithuania and made free to use for education providers. Fourth, two learning activities were rganized instead of one, that is for foreigner and native speakers who are learning foreign language in order to test the outputs created. Lastly, a final hybrid conference for language teachers and educators was organized for presentation of the outputs and practical program outdoors. Also, management and dissemination tasks and actions were applied by participating organizations (quality conrol; monitoring, impact evaluation, risk management, guide for management and budget control was ddeveloped, dissemination and results exploitation plan was developed as well as a new project application was prepared).

Background

The main MOTIVE to apply for this project was to establish wider coopertation with partners in order to develop new language teaching methods, which would help participating organisation to enrich language teaching methodology. The pandemic situation and growing numbers of immigrant in Lithuania has determined such initiatives to cooperate and work on development of new teaching methods. Also, it was expected that the project will strenghen international cooperation, because now the applicant center and both partner organisations mostly acts on a national arena.Thus, the main TARGET GROUPS were 1. language teachers who teach native language and culture for foreigners. Their main needs: a) a competence-based curriculum which would be used for teaching outside classroom b) to enhance learners' motivation through strategies and teaching based on personal experience c) to improve working conditions with contemporary teaching tools. 2. Students (grades 1-12).Main needs are to study foreign language in an interactive, personal experience-based environment by strengthening motivation and social skills. Moreover, during the project it was seen that the needs of native learners who are studying foreign language could be addressed.

Project partners (3)