Lingua

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Lingua

• Prepared by Dinçay KÖKSAL

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Lingua

• The promotion of language teaching and learning
  is an objective of the SOCRATES 2 programme as a
  whole, and of the Erasmus, Comenius and Grundtvig
  actions in particular.
• The new Lingua Action supports these actions
  through measures designed to
• Encourage and support linguistic diversity
  throughout the Union.
• Contribute to an improvement in the quality of
  language teaching and learning.
• Promote access to lifelong language learning
  opportunities appropriate to each individuals
  needs.

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Lingua

• The action is divided into two parts,
  corresponding to different sub-objectives.
• Lingua 1 is intended to
• raise citizens awareness of the Unions
  multilingual wealth, encourage people to learn
  languages throughout their lifetime, and to
  improve access to foreign-language learning
  resources across Europe.
• develop and disseminate innovative techniques and
  good practices in language teaching. 

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Lingua

• Lingua 2 aims to 
• ensure that a sufficiently wide range of
  language-learning tools is available to language
  learners.
• Under both sub-actions, the Commission will fund
  projects developed by transnational partnerships
  composed of eligible institutions and
  organisations. The application procedure is the
  same for both sub-actions.

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• Which languages?
• Language teaching covers the teaching and
  learning, as foreign languages, of all of the
  official Community languages as well as Irish and
  Luxemburgish. 
• The national languages of the EFTA/EEA countries
  and of the pre-accession countries participating
  in this programme are also eligible. 
• Throughout the programme, particular attention is
  paid to the development of skills in the less
  widely used and less taught official Community
  languages (the LWULT languages).

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Lingua

• Partnerships working on Lingua projects must
  meet the following criteria
• Involve at least one eligible establishment/
  organisation from each of at least three
  participating countries, including countries
  where the target languages are spoken.
• Provide for all the participants to take an
  active role in pooling their expertise to design,
  implement and evaluate the project and ensure the
  wide dissemination of its products.
• Bring together all the skills necessary for the
  performance of the tasks.

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Lingua 1 Promotion of language learning

• Objectives
• To promote language teaching and learning, to
  support the linguistic diversity of the Union,
  and to encourage improvements in the quality of
  language teaching structures and systems.
• Specifically, the action is intended to
• Raise citizens awareness of the multilingual
  character of the Union and of the advantages of
  lifelong language learning, and to encourage them
  to take up language learning themselves.
• Improve access to language learning resources and
  increase the support available for those learning
  languages.
• Promote the dissemination of information about
  innovative techniques and good practices in
  foreign language teaching in Europe, among its
  target groups (especially decision-makers and key
  education professionals).

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Lingua 1 Promotion of language learning

• Projects
• Multinational partnerships are invited to submit
  projects in one or more of the areas of activity
  set out below.
• The type of activity and the target group vary
  according to the area of activity. Given the
  innovative nature of this Action, the types of
  activity listed here are for guidance only. Any
  activity with the potential to achieve the
  objectives of the relevant area will, in
  principle, be considered.

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Lingua 1 Promotion of language learning

• Lingua 1 Area 1
• Raising awareness of the advantages of language
  learning
• Motivating individuals to learn languages
  (including the ability to learn how to learn
  languages) 
• Providing information on the means and methods
  available (such as multilingual comprehension,
  partial competence )

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Priority themes Lingua

• Multilingual comprehension
• Partial linguistic competence, such as written
  and oral comprehension
• Survival-level linguistic competence
• The development of measures encouraging the
  acquisition of sufficient knowledge of foreign
  languages to meet the requirements of particular
  situations and contexts, provided that these
  measures are not linked to a specific profession
  (this would fall more within the scope of the
  Leonardo da Vinci programme)
• Analysis of the problems linked to language
  teaching and learning presented by further
  Community enlargement
• Projects focussing on other themes will not,
  however, be excluded

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Lingua 1 Target groups for activities

• General public
• Specific groups such as parents or inhabitants of
  countries/ regions where numbers of persons
  learning languages are low
• Education professionals

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Examples of types of activity and priority themes
in 2001

• Information campaigns
• Competitions
• Awards
• Labels 
• Studies and analyses
• Schemes for the recognition of language skills
• ).

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Target groups for activities

• General public
• Sectors with specific access needs 

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Examples of types of activity and priority themes
in 2001

• Networking of language resource centres,
  information exchange and pilot projects in the
  following areas
• Informing the general public about the
  opportunities available in resource centres
• Sharing of skills, particularly in self-study and
  distance learning, including the organisation of
  pilot courses
• Implementation of new initiatives, such as
  Language Clubs, to increase public awareness of
  the resources available
• Training of resource centre staff
• Opening existing resource centres (e.g.
  university language laboratories) to the public
  or to other target groups, and ensuring that
  their needs are met 
• Making more language-learning resources available
  from local authorities, via public libraries,
  schools, associations, etc.
• Increasing the number of languages offered
• Innovative approaches providing self-study
  materials for secondary-school pupils 

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Lingua 1 Area 3

• Exchange and dissemination amongst policy makers
  of information on innovative approaches and key
  issues in language teaching
• Facilitating access to language learning. 

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Target groups for activities

• Decision-makers
• Senior civil servants
• Inspectors

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Examples of types of activity and priority themes
in 2001

• Preparing, organising and following up colloquia,
  seminars, conferences, etc.
• Specialist publications
• Creating and promoting associations and networks

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Concentrating on the following areas

• Teaching of languages at an early age
• Multilingual comprehension
• Partial linguistic competence, such as written
  and oral comprehension, or survival-level
  linguistic competence
• The development of measures encouraging the
  acquisition of sufficient knowledge of foreign
  languages to meet the requirements of particular
  situations and contexts, provided that these
  measures are not linked to a specific profession
  (this would fall more within the scope of the
  Leonardo da Vinci programme)
• Analysis of the problems linked to language
  teaching and learning presented by further
  Community enlargement.
• Projects focussing on other themes will not,
  however, be excluded.

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Lingua 2 Development of instruments for
language-teaching and for the assessment of
foreign language skills.

• This action continues the work of the former
  Lingua action D

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Lingua 2 Objectives

• The objective of this action is to help raise the
  standards in language teaching and learning by
  ensuring the availability of sufficient language
  learning instruments and tools for assessing
  linguistic skills acquired. 
• The action will encourage the development of new
  tools and a wider dissemination of existing
  methods which represent best practice and provide
  European added-value. 

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Lingua 2Objectives

• More specifically, this action aims to
• encourage innovation in the development of
  language learning and teaching tools
• encourage the sharing of best practices 
• provide a wider variety of language teaching
  materials to more clearly defined target groups
• encourage the production of language tools for
  the less widely used less taught languages 
• support educational approaches which are
  commercially under-represented or difficult to
  market on a large scale
• encourage the acquisition of sufficient knowledge
  of foreign languages to meet the requirements of
  particular situations and contexts, provided that
  these measures are not linked to a specific
  profession (this would fall more within the scope
  of the Leonardo da Vinci programme)
• improve the distribution and availability of
  products.

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Outline of projects

• The Commission will encourage cooperation on a
  European scale in the development and exchange of
  innovative curricula, methodologies and
  educational materials as well as effective tools
  for assessing language skills acquired. 
• The Commission will provide co-financing for
  projects which create, adapt, refine or exchange
  one or more of the following products
• educational media and materials for foreign
  language teaching, as well as for raising
  awareness of languages
• methods and tools designed to recognise and
  evaluate language skills
• teaching and study programmes. 

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Outline of projects

• The projects must
• precisely define their educational objectives
• demonstrate a need for the product(s) or
  activity(ies) proposed
• clearly define both their target publics and the
  situations to be covered
• show a consistent approach to teaching issues
• evaluate the results obtained
• disseminate widely within the participating
  countries the results obtained.

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Outline of projects

• NOTE the products developed under Lingua Action
  2 are essentially aimed at language learners (and
  not at the training of language teachers see
  Comenius 2).

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Themes and priorities

• The Commission publishes, regularly, a list of
  the priority themes for this Action, in addition
  to the overall priorities listed above. 
• Projects concentrating on other themes will not,
  however, be excluded. 
• For 2001, priority will be given to projects
  which devise, develop or produce material and
  techniques for language teaching and learning and
  which
• Concentrate on preparing Union citizens for
  trans-European mobility
• Encourage self-study of languages.

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Themes and priorities

• For materials developed by transnational
  partnerships under the previous Lingua Programme
  and under Lingua action D, please see Lingua
  Catalogue.
• For examples of projects supported in recent
  years, please download the Lingua D compendia, or
  see the web sites of some current projects.

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Take a look at Lingu_at_net  a multilingual, virtual
resources centre. Further details of these
actions, and their eligibility criteria and
priorities, of which these are only a summary,
may be found in the Guidelines for Applicants,
available from the National Agencies.  Lingua
Catalogue http//www.ua.gov.tr/portal/page?_pagei
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