Title: EUProject: MICaLL
1EU-Project MICaLL
Moderating Intercultural Collaboration Language
Learning
2The MICaLL Project
- Socrates Project / Comenius 2.1
- October 2004 - October 2007
- Goal Innovation of the Initial Training and
Professional Development of Language Teachers - Current partnership 6 Countries, 15
Organisations
3Development of Teacher Competences in
- Promoting intercultural communicative competence
- Design and management of international
collaborative curriculum projects
4Results Deliverables
- Course Project Modules Pre- In-service
- A web based portal site tools for collaborative
language learning - An organisational structure for sustainable
cooperation (school e-twinning)
5Why MICaLL? Inspiration Contexts
6Why MICaLL?
- EU-policies Instruments- Education and
Training 2010- Action Plan for languages -
CEFR, ELP - Teacher Training- professional competences
development- experiential, workplace-based
learning- collaboration with schools
theory/practice
7Why MICaLL? Call Pedagogy
- - Technology 2nd generation web tools easy
access / more interaction - - Constructivism, Task content based
approaches
8Pedagogical Approach to Teacher Training
(Source Efa)
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10Wiki
11LanguageQuest
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13Why MICaLL? Call Pedagogy
- ICC classroom constraints The problem of
teaching intercultural communication in the
classroom is that it almost impossible to model
experiential learning in role-plays. Internet
projects where they have to co-operate, to work
on a common goal with learners from other
cultures could eventually replace role-plays and
give the students the chance to experience
authentic co-operation. Vogel (2001)
14Why MICaLL? Call Pedagogy
- Motivation classroom constraints Only
through international activities for which the
foreign language needs to be used on a daily
basis in natural conversational (including
virtual / internet based) settings can the
students be intrinsically motivated to keep using
the language in the school setting. Kees de
Bot quoted in (Marsh, 2002, p.31)
15Why MICaLL? Language Teacher Education
- Current generation of student teachers has not
witnessed relevant model teacher behaviour - EU-Conference 2004 Improving Language
Education Theme Teacher Professionalism - Closer cooperation between TT and schools
- adoption of innovative teaching methods (e.g. use
of media, international exchanges) - more cooperation and networking between teacher
training organisations - promotion of life long learning and participation
in in-service training (e.g. by using e-learning)
16Teacher Ed. Curriculum Module
- collaborative e-projects task-based CALL
- formats planned so far- LanguageQuest-
Weblog- Computer Mediated Dialogue (Chat,IM,
MOO)- Tandem approach
17Organisation of Project Activities
18The MICaLL Portal Site
- Content Management System
- Based on Plone
- Open Source / Open Standards
19Features of The Portal Site
- Member / Community based
- Role-related differentiation in rights and
available functionality
20MICaLL BlogPages
21The Portal Site (2)
- Features of Workspaces for (student) teachers
trainers - - editors for task formats LanguageQuest
- - communication publication tools Weblog,
Forum, Chat, Doc etc. - - virtual class- project rooms
22MICaLL Workspace
23Planning
- 2004 -2005- Professional development of team
schoolbased mentors - Portal website. Version
1.0 - 2005 2006- Module Content development- Pilots
/ School try-outs - 2006 2007- Production of Handbook In-service
course - Projects in Teacher Ed. and Schools-
Portal website. Version 2.0
24EU-Project MICaLL
Towards a Pedagogy for Network-based Language
Learning
You are cordially invited to participate in our
pilots and projects!